I’m building Backlight, independent measurement for AI coding tools.

I’m the founder of Accent Labs Inc., where I’m building Backlight: independent measurement for AI coding tools. Backlight helps engineering and finance leaders understand spend, adoption, output, quality, and license utilization using read-only metadata, with no source-code storage and no instrumentation in engineering workflows.

The work is a continuation of problems I’ve spent years close to: systems that have to be fast, trusted, observable, and useful to people making decisions under constraint.

I started by building iPhone software before the App Store was the only distribution path: unofficial toolchains, jailbreak packages, and small apps released through Cydia. At JibJab, that early work became professional software work. I learned Ruby on Rails on JibJab.com, then became technical lead for JibJab Messages, the company’s mobile-first personalized GIF and sticker experience across iOS and Android.

At Apple, I worked first in iOS Platform Experience across Setup, Settings, iCloud sign-in, client frameworks, service boundaries, and SRP-based credential verification flows. In late 2018 I joined Vision Products Group, working on early visionOS System UI surfaces before managing and growing the team through product delivery.

That background shapes how I build now: fewer claims, better instruments, tighter feedback loops, and products that make technical work legible to the people responsible for funding and operating it.