I build PingKit because the network is where most everyday tech problems actually live: slow WiFi, a device you don't recognise, a connection that keeps dropping. The tools for understanding it were either enterprise-heavy, ad-riddled, or quietly shipping your data somewhere.
My background is in DevOps and systems engineering, keeping infrastructure reliable, observable, and secure. PingKit brings that same discipline to your home network: the diagnostics you'd expect from professional tooling, wrapped in an interface that explains what it finds in plain language. Everything that can run on your device does. There are no accounts, no ads, and no analytics SDKs harvesting your activity.
Why privacy-first isn't a marketing line here
Network data is some of the most revealing data there is. It describes every device you own and how you use them. That's exactly why PingKit keeps it on your device and syncs it only through your own private iCloud database, which even I can't see. Device classification, security scoring, and discovery all happen locally. It's a deliberate constraint, and it shapes every feature decision.