name: "Kaito"
handle: "@Aishou"
location: "Germany 🇩🇪"
age: 31
company: "Neurona.design (i.Gr.)"  # in Gründung — not yet operational

current_focus: "ALITHIA OS — The Zero-Copy AI-Native Operating System"

background:
  education: "Self-taught developer with 25+ years of coding experience"
  started: "First lines of code at age 6-7 with Fortran and Borland"
  journey: "Fortran → Borland → C/C++ → C# → Python → Java → Rust (+ some Perl)"
  home_distro: "openSUSE Tumbleweed (SUSE kid since the early days, never liked Ubuntu)"
  languages_spoken: ["German (native)", "English (fluent)", "Japanese (learning)"]
  
career_path:
  - "Started coding as a kid — Fortran on my dad's old machine"
  - "Grew up on SUSE/openSUSE — learned Linux the RPM way"
  - "Borland C++ era: game modding and reverse engineering"
  - "Deep dive into IT Security — pen testing, exploit dev"
  - "Systems programming and OS development"
  - "Now: Moonshot thinking — building the OS I always wished existed"

security_background:
  philosophy: "Exploit & Conquer — understand systems by breaking them"
  experience:
    - "Penetration Testing (Black Box & White Box)"
    - "Vulnerability Research & Exploit Development"
    - "Reverse Engineering (binaries, protocols, firmware)"
    - "Security Auditing & Code Review"
  approach: "Still actively researching — you can't build secure systems without knowing how to break them"

gaming_underground:
  era: "Early-to-mid 2010s — the golden age of private servers"
  community: "elitepvpers veteran 🏴‍☠️"
  skills:
    - "Reverse engineering game protocols & server binaries"
    - "Network packet analysis and custom client mods"
    - "Database management for massive player bases"
  history: |
    Ran some of the largest German private servers back in the day.
    Counter-Strike: Source communities, MMO private servers...
    One particular MMORPG server became the biggest in Germany for a while.
    Long forgotten now, but those were formative years.
  learned: "Scaling, community management, and why UDP is both a blessing and a curse"

roles:
  - "🖥️ System Engineer — Low-level is where the magic happens"
  - "🤖 ML/RL Researcher — Teaching machines to learn"
  - "🔐 IT Security — Breaking things to make them stronger"
  - "🎮 Game Designer — Games taught me to code"
  - "📰 Political Journalist — Technology shapes society"

interests:
  - "Anime & Manga (the usual suspects)"
  - "Retro gaming and emulation"
  - "Mechanical keyboards"
  - "Long walks with good podcasts"

philosophy: "Build tools that respect the user. Ship code that works."
motto: "Keep learning. Stay curious. Share what you know."