About
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I'm Jonny. I build software where AI, hardware, and physical space collide. Today that's screen-aware AI at Clicky and an ambient OS called Prism Labs. Before that, Vision Pro hardware labs at Apple.
The through-line is always the same: I like making physical systems less dumb. Take computing off the glass and put it into the real world.
I got here sideways. Community college, a national SkillsUSA gold in smart-home automation, then about two years building hardware-validation infrastructure for Apple's Vision Pro: robotic test labs, recovery tooling, dashboards, and automation that took a multi-hour lab process down to about ten minutes.
Now I'm a founding engineer at Clicky, building an AI assistant that can actually see your screen, point at things, and operate software with you. On the side I'm building Prism Labs, an ambient OS that turns a room into a computer, no headset required. My favorite kind of software is the kind that makes hardware stop acting cursed.
I build software for the parts of computing that touch the real world. Cameras, robots, projectors, rooms: the messy edge where code meets hardware and things break in physical ways.
I came to the US from Ethiopia as a teenager 🇪🇹 and did most of my growing up here. School and I didn't get along early. I found my footing building things slightly before I was qualified to build them. At Northern Virginia Community College I studied CS but learned the most from projects, including a national SkillsUSA gold medal in IoT and smart-home automation.
That got me to Apple, where I spent about two years on Vision Pro hardware-validation infrastructure: robotic test labs, recovery tooling, diagnostics, and dashboards. The cleanest win: a lab process that used to take hours, cut to about ten minutes. Watching frontier hardware get built up close reset what I thought was buildable.
Now I'm a founding engineer at Clicky, building a screen-aware AI assistant for Mac: guided visual annotations, hands-free browser control, the plumbing that lets an agent see context and actually act on it. The bet: the interface after chat is visual, spatial, and able to do things.
And I'm building Prism Labs, an ambient operating system for physical space. A ceiling unit that understands a room and projects a real, usable interface onto the surfaces already in it. No headset, no glass in your hand. Smart homes failed because they automated light switches. Prism starts by understanding the space.
I keep ending up where cameras, robots, AI, and weird rooms collide. That's the place I want to be.
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