georgepickett.co

George Pickett

Applied AI Engineer

Experience

Sep 2025 – Present

georgepickett.co · San Francisco

Founder

  • Designed and deployed production AI agent systems for early-stage founders, replacing manual work across sales, support, and internal tooling.
  • Built Python-based agent workflows in LangGraph that connect LLMs to real systems (email, CRMs, internal APIs).
  • Owned projects end to end: problem definition, architecture, model selection, deployment, and production iteration.
  • Prioritized reliability, cost control, and human-in-the-loop workflows over demos.

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.