Bailey Wickham

Klaus, Co-founder & CTO

YC-backed (W26) consumer AI infrastructure startup. Raised $3M, reached $300K ARR, wound down on consumer unit economics.

• Designed and built KVM-based sandbox infrastructure giving each agent a persistent, hardware-isolated environment for executing untrusted code, integrated with browsers, messaging tools, and the major model providers.
• Scaled to 1K+ concurrent VMs running long-horizon, multi-step agent tasks, with monitoring and lifecycle management for every run.

Console, Founding Engineer

First employee at an AI startup for IT departments, acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2026

• Led the platform team. Designed and developed the core data ingest pipeline and the first customer-facing agent. Scaled data ingestion across new customers and third-party data sources, serving 10K+ users. Set up and managed the Kubernetes cluster and all other infrastructure and monitoring.
• Built the embedding and indexing pipeline on top of the ingest layer, incrementally re-indexing customer data as it changed, and the retrieval evals used to choose chunking, embedding, and ranking strategies.
• Built the agent execution layer that ran multi-step IT workflows against customer systems like Okta, Google Workspace, and Jira, handling tool calling, permissions, and retries.

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.

Amazon, Software Engineer

IPX 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

• Undergraduate research in pure mathematics under Dr. Eric Brussel: studied the moduli space of embeddings of complex planes into the quaternions and generalized quaternions, classifying the related affine varieties and conjugacy classes.

California Polytechnic, SLO

BS in Mathematics (Pure focus), BS in Computer Science

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.