Bailey Wickham

Experience

12.2025 – Present

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.
08.2023 – 12.2025
2 years, 4 months

Console, Founding Engineer

Early stage AI startup for IT departments funded by Thrive Capital

12.2022 – 9.2023
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.
01.2021 – 07.2022
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.
Summer 2020 – Winter 2021

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. Paper in progress.
09.2018 – 12.2020
2 years, 3 months

Cal Poly CubeSat Lab

PolySat, Cal Poly

  • 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

09.2018 – 06.2022

California Polytechnic, SLO

BS in Mathematics, BS in Computer Science

  • 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.