I'm Corey. Nine years building wealth-management platforms at Credit Suisse and UBS, now CTO of a regulated credit union and shipping live products across mobile and web. I take full ownership of what I build — from architecture through deployment.
Building the underwriting-committee flow for the credit union and shipping a new billing rotation for Rugby Unlocked. Half the week is on customer calls, half is actually writing code — and that ratio is the whole point.
Most projects fall into one of three shapes. Each is delivered by the same person who architected it, wrote it, and pushed it to production.
WordPress, Squarespace or hand-rolled sites rebuilt mobile-first on Astro and Vercel's edge. Faster pages, structured data Google can read, no plugin patch cycles.
Full-stack web and mobile products built from a blank canvas. Auth, payments, admin tools, audit trails, regulator-grade if you need it. React / TypeScript and Spring Boot stack, the same one I run for the credit union.
Once it's live I keep it running. Hosting on Vercel (managed for you), content updates, performance monitoring, security patches, uptime alerts and a monthly health summary.
A representative cut. Production sites, regulated platforms, AI products and a growing SaaS — all owned end-to-end by me.
The operating system of an IoMFSA-regulated UK credit union. Member portal, full loan lifecycle, AML/CFT operations, SHA-256 audit chains, in-product regulator training, one-click inspection-pack export.
Co-founder & CTO · Read the case study →Cross-platform AI chat app with automatic context memory across conversations. React Native first, TypeScript, Hono and Drizzle ORM. iOS and Android pending store release.
Solo build · case study →Identity and statistics platform for amateur rugby. Grew organically to 400 users and 40 paying across 110 clubs, no paid acquisition. I own architecture, billing and ongoing ops.
Co-founder · case study →LLM agent platform: orchestration, tool calling, streaming inference, multi-turn state, RAG pipeline. Live on Shopify with Stripe billing.
Solo build · case study →A Cardiff family business trading since 1980. Same brand, same URLs, same content. WordPress out, Astro in. A rebuild a returning customer wouldn’t notice, except the pages now load in under 100ms.
Solo build · soft-retouch case study →More public experiments and side projects live at coreyscodecave.com.
Before you spend a pound, you get a proposal that walks your current site, names specific issues, costs them in lost revenue, and lays out a phased fix with fixed pricing. Below: the May 2026 Saddle Central proposal, published on the web — exactly as it landed in the client’s inbox.
No salesperson, no project manager standing between us. You get the engineer who will write the code from the first call onwards.
If I can’t put a number on it, it’s a research project — and you’ll see why on day one, before any money moves.
The repo lives in your GitHub org from the first commit. Nothing locked behind an agency portal, no proprietary admin to learn.
React, TypeScript, Java/Spring, Postgres, Astro. The same stack the bank uses. Stuff your next engineer can read on the train home.
Audit trails, retention engines, KYC pipelines — same hygiene whether you’re an Isle of Man credit union or a Cardiff bakery. The discipline travels.
Daily preview deployments on Vercel. You can click the work before you sign the next invoice. No "trust me, it’s coming".
Crew member at the McDonald’s on Northumberland Street while reading Computer Science up the road. The three lessons that have outlasted the job: turn up on time, do the boring step properly, and the customer in front of you is always the work.
Smartstream graduate ladder. Java microservices, the boring fundamentals, the kind of two-year tour where you learn to ship before you learn to argue about how to ship.
Backbase, as the first full-stack hire. Built the reusable micro-frontend library every credit union and bank client ran on. Shipped the payments security layer (SMS OTP, device OOB, Keycloak) into production at multiple regulated institutions.
Five years on Credit Suisse and then UBS wealth management. Frontend consultant to Assistant Vice President to Associate Director. Led the React / TypeScript full-stack delivery for the EMEA wealth platform through the largest banking consolidation in Swiss history.
Independent studio. Mooncake, PromptMySite, RugbyUnlocked, the agency client work, this site. Half the week on customer calls, half on actual code — on purpose.
I started on a graduate programme at Smartstream in Bristol, joined Backbase in Cardiff as their first full-stack hire, then spent five years on the consolidated UBS EMEA wealth-management platform — through the largest banking consolidation in Swiss history — rising from contract architect to Associate Director.
I now run my own studio in Zürich. I’m CTO of an IoMFSA-regulated UK credit union, co-founder of a rugby SaaS with users across 110 clubs, and I ship production React Native, Next.js and Astro products under my own brand.
The thread through all of it is the same: take full ownership, ship to real users, and treat regulated standards as the floor rather than the ceiling.
Things I’ve had to write the proposal version of more than three times, so I wrote them down properly. New entries land in this list.
Corey intuitively understood what we needed without me having to spell it out. He gave the site a careful facelift our customers still recognise instantly, and unlike the agency we’d been paying, he didn’t charge me £900 a day every time we needed a small update.
This site is sick. We’ve been on Rugby Unlocked since launch and it just works. When I asked Corey to tweak how attendance shows up, it shipped in two days. Most platforms charge me to even file the request.
Site rebuilds run 21–25 working days from go-ahead to public cutover. Custom platforms are scoped per project, but a useful rule of thumb is six to twelve weeks for a first production version. Either way, you’ll see daily preview deployments on Vercel during the build — you’re never waiting on a status update.
Yes, with one caveat: I won’t be the third agency on a project. If you already have a brand or design partner, they keep the brand and design lane and I take engineering end-to-end. If you have an existing dev team I can complement them on a specific surface (mobile, regulated overlay, payments) but won’t take responsibility for code I didn’t write.
Yes. Mutual NDAs are signed before any sensitive material moves. For regulated work, I sign DPAs and can operate inside your data residency requirements. I’ve done this end-to-end with an FCA-regulated business and an IoMFSA-regulated credit union — the paperwork is familiar.
Fixed-price projects: 40% on signature, 40% at the mid-project milestone, 20% on public cutover. Custom platforms: monthly invoice against a written plan. Site care: monthly direct debit, starting at £150/month and scaling for larger sites, heavier content cadence, or active SEO retainers. All invoices on Stripe, in your currency, with a receipt your accountant can reconcile in thirty seconds.
Thirty days of post-launch support and tuning come with every project at no extra cost. After that, you can either take the keys (the repo, content store and Vercel account are already yours) or roll onto Site care from £150/month, which folds hosting, security patches, performance monitoring and content updates into one invoice. Larger catalogues and active SEO retainers are priced on top.
No. The mocks in the proposal show what the rebuilt site will look like — you sign off on the design before any production code is written. If you have brand assets I’ll respect them; if you don’t, you’ll get a coherent visual language out of the project and own it afterwards.
Tell me what you’re building — or what you’ve already built that isn’t working. I’ll come back inside two working days with a written assessment and, where it fits, a fixed-price proposal.
