Bailey Wickham
Experience
Klaus, Co-founder & CTO
YC-backed (W26) startup building cloud-hosted AI personal assistants
- Building Klaus, an opinionated, batteries-included distribution of OpenClaw: a dedicated AI assistant in the cloud, set up in minutes with Slack, Telegram, the major model providers, a browser, and email pre-configured, with no API keys or setup and no access to personal data by default.
2 years, 4 months
Console, Founding Engineer
First engineering hire at an early stage AI startup for IT departments funded by Thrive Capital
- Designed and implemented the RAG search pipeline, surveying and implementing the state of the art.
- Designed novel AI interaction patterns, including "Playbooks" allowing users to reference tools and resources inline. Developed the main agentic workflows for the IT use case.
- Designed and developed core data ingest platform, scaled to 1M+ records per ingest across multiple data providers and customers.
- Worked on everything from core AI features to the platform. Scaled platform to 10K+ users. Worked with customers to close individual deals.
10 months
Metaculus, Software Engineer
Early stage startup that built a forecasting platform
- Implemented scoring algorithm. Built out core features of the platform, including Search and Achievement features that drove user growth.
- Designed and developed public API client for interacting with Metaculus API. Built out API endpoints for new features.
1 year, 6 months
Amazon, IPX Team
Amazon team responsible for KDP Publishing
- Worked on internal lisp language, made contributions to the runtime and parser. Developed visualization tools for tree data structures. Developed DSL for querying book location on Amazon store.
- Worked on team of three to decide infrastructure path forward for team. Led major infrastructure and design 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.
Frost Researcher (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 the quaternions (H) from a category theoretic perspective.
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 XXprogram. 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.
Education
California Polytechnic, SLO
BS in Mathematics (Pure focus), BS in Computer Science
- 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.