Bailey Wickham
Side Projects
fuzzer Go
A markov chain based fuzzer written in Go which generates new data based on an input corpus to test applications. Supports multiple markov chains and test corpuses in parallel.
cont C
A minimal container implementation in C. Uses namespaces, cgroups, overlayfs to create and manage multiple containers.
PrettyCities Python/Tensorflow/Keras
Use Keras and Google maps API to try to generate predictions about how pretty a city is.
More on Github
Education
09.2018 – 06.2022
California Polytechnic, SLO
- BS in Mathematics (Pure focus), BS in Computer Science, 3.56 GPA
- Minor in Chinese (two years of language courses)
- Graduate courses in Field Theory, Point-Set Topology, Algebraic Topology, Programming Languages
Received Frost funding Spring, 2022 to research Version Space Algebras under Dr. Robert Easton in the Mathematics department.
Worked with Masters student under Dr. Theresa Migler to characterize power networks from a graph theoretic approach. Studied graph networks and built a framework for ingesting data.
Attended Simple Group, a research seminar with a focus on algebraic topics.
Attended programming languages reading group under Dr. John Clements and Dr. Aaron Keen. Discussed current topics in programming languages and type theory.
Experience
09.2023 – Present
Early stage startup, Founding Engineer
Founding Engineer at an early stage startup, currently info is not public.
12.2022 – 9.2023
10 months
Metaculus, Software Engineer
Worked at early stage startup that built a forecasting platform. Built out core features of the platform, including Search and Achievement features that drove user growth.
Designed and developed API client for interacting with Metaculus API. Built out API endpoints for new features.
01.2021 – 07.2022
1 year, 6 months
Amazon, IPX Team
Remote/SLO, CA
Junior Developer at Amazon SLO on Indie Publishing Experience team responsible for the publishing workflow for KDP authors. 20h per week October-June, 40h per week June-September. Fully remote position for first year, hybrid for second. Declined FTE offer.
Built internal tools to simplify developer experience. Built tree visualization tools for store data. Developed DSL for querying book location on Amazon store.
Worked on team of three to decide infrastructure path forward for team. Led major infrastructure choices for medium scale component. Led initial planning and development of said component, including CI/CD, designing APIs, integrating with other services through custom DSL.
Summer 2020 – Winter 2021
Frost Undergraduate Research (Poster)
Frost Research, Cal Poly
Participated in undergraduate research in Pure Mathematics under Dr. Eric Brussel. We studied a moduli space of embeddings of complex planes into the quaternions. We then generalized our approach over the generalized quaternions, classifying the embeddings of commutative subalgebras, related affine varieties, and conjugacy classes. We also studied H from a category theoretic perspective. Paper in progress.
09.2018 – 12.2020
2 years, 3 months
Cal Poly CubeSat Lab
Mission Lead of ExoCube II (Spring 2019-Summer 2020), a 3U small satellite as part of NASA's ELaNa XX program. Led team of ~20 through build, testing, and predelivery phase of the spacecraft. Worked with NASA Goddard, Virgin Orbit, TriSept to organize delivery of spacecraft. Mission funded by NASA, NSF.
ExoCube II successfully launched on Virgin Orbit Q1 of 2021. Worked with current mission lead during initial acquisition and operations.
Led development and deployment of CPCL infrastructure to AWS (~5 machines). Wrote Cloudformation templates, ansible scripts to manage deployment. Deployment met Cal Poly IT security standards.
Developed Embedded Flight Software for CPCL including commits to buildroot, IPC library, beacon and XDR parser.