George Pickett

Sep 2025 – Present

georgepickett.co · San Francisco

Founder

• Designed and deployed production AI systems for early-stage products, with a focus on agent workflows, orchestration, and developer-facing tooling.
• Built long-running LLM workflows that connect models to real systems including email, internal APIs, browser automation, and operational tools.
• Owned projects end to end across product definition, architecture, implementation, deployment, and iteration.
• Optimized for reliability, cost control, and practical user value rather than demo-driven complexity.

2025 – Present

OpenClaw · Open Source

Maintainer & OpenClaw Studio Creator

• Maintain an open-source personal AI assistant platform spanning agents, tools, channels, approvals, and always-on execution.
• Created OpenClaw Studio, a web control plane for connecting gateways, chatting with agents, handling approvals, and configuring agent jobs.
• Worked on agent harness reliability, orchestration behavior, debugging difficult execution failures, and system hardening.
• Helped translate multi-agent automation into practical developer and operator workflows through product surfaces, examples, and implementation support.

Apr 2024 – Sep 2025

Anvil (Document SDK) · San Francisco

Senior Software Engineer

• Led development of a production CV pipeline, fine-tuning YOLOv11 to detect empty PDF form fields with 99.5% accuracy.
• Replaced manual box-drawing editors with automated CV + LLM field detection and labeling for uploaded PDFs.
• Designed and shipped end-to-end document processing workflows integrated into Anvil's SDK.
• Balanced accuracy, latency, and cost constraints for real customer documents.

Jul 2023 – Apr 2024

Visioncast

Founder

• Built an AI therapist app with React Native and a Python/Django backend.
• Implemented real-time, bidirectional interactions via WebSockets for low-latency conversations.
• Integrated on-device speech recognition to reduce latency and dependency on external APIs.
• Dockerized and deployed to AWS with Terraform, owning infrastructure and runtime reliability.

Jul 2022 – Jul 2023

Otterspace · Berlin, Germany

Blockchain Developer

• Developed, tested, and deployed smart contracts for a soulbound token protocol, including an upgradeable architecture.
• Collaborated on protocol launch, optimization, and production readiness.

May 2020 – Feb 2022

Hi Right Now · Remote

Co-founder, CTO

• Launched and pivoted three startups, completed the Fast Track Malmo accelerator, and raised a small funding round.
• Built products across social networking, virtual events, and video analytics.

Feb 2018 – Aug 2019

ROI Signal · San Francisco

Founder

• Built a real estate investment platform with a Node.js data scraper for Redfin and LoopNet, a REST API, alerting for high-potential deals, and a React frontend.

Sep 2016 – May 2018

Forio · San Francisco

Frontend Engineer

• Shipped production web apps for top MBA programs from scoping to deployment.
• Wrote Jest/Enzyme tests, mentored junior engineers, and improved performance by 44%.

Sep 2015 – Aug 2016

The Press Democrat · Santa Rosa, CA

Frontend Engineer

• Led the redesign of pressdemocrat.com with a mobile-first approach, increased pages per visit by 40%, and migrated a WordPress network with zero downtime.