About

A lifelong builder, Corey began programming at a young age, introduced to Visual Basic by his father. He built his first website soon after and has been coding ever since. He prefers building his own custom tools tailored to his needs rather than buying off-the-shelf solutions — and has done so consistently across every venture for over twenty years.

In 2010, he spotted a market opportunity and founded Vanilla Video, a video production company based in Illinois that served thousands of clients across the Chicago area for over 14 years. He built all of the company's software — CRM, scheduling, invoicing, dispatch — with almost no off-the-shelf dependencies. The company completed 5,000+ projects for 4,000+ clients. That experience — building and operating real systems under real business constraints, at scale, for years — is the foundation everything else sits on.

His long-standing interest in economics, markets, and how systems behave under pressure led him to quantitative development and algorithmic trading. This is now his full-time focus. He designs, builds, and operates a production trading platform covering real-time market data ingestion, automated research, strategy execution, risk management, and continuous self-verification — live on real capital.

During warmer months, he walks around 5 miles a day. He had a YouTube channel, but is not active on social media. Corey holds conservative values, attends a local Baptist church, and believes in Jesus Christ.