About

I am a San Francisco-based software engineer building AI agents, developer tools, and production AI workflows. I help maintain OpenClaw, created OpenClaw Studio, and organize CodexSF.

Most of my work sits at the intersection of agent orchestration, LLM infrastructure, and product design. I like building systems that do real work: long-running agents, tool-calling workflows, memory and state management, and the developer tooling needed to make these systems reliable.

I've spent most of my career in startups and self-directed projects, which means I tend to work end to end. I'm backend-leaning, but comfortable across the stack in Python, Node.js, and React. I care a lot about keeping systems simple, practical, and easy to iterate on.

A lot of my recent work has centered on agent systems. I'm an OpenClaw maintainer, working on orchestration reliability, execution issues, and system hardening for an open-source personal AI assistant platform. I also created OpenClaw Studio, a web dashboard for connecting to an OpenClaw Gateway, seeing agents, chatting, managing approvals, and configuring jobs. I'm especially interested in the gap between flashy demos and systems people can actually trust.

Before that, I worked on document AI and computer vision systems, including high-accuracy form field detection pipelines that combined CV models with LLM-based understanding. I'm much more interested in applied AI than research for its own sake. I like shipping products that make strong technical bets and then proving them out in the real world.

I also care about the people side of this space. I organize CodexSF, a Luma meetup for builders working on AI agents and developer tooling, and I share what I'm learning in public on X. A big part of what motivates me is helping make this new generation of tools more understandable, more usable, and more grounded in real workflows.

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Get in touch

You can reach me at george@georgepickett.co, follow along on GitHub, or find me on X.