david@awnix:~$ whoami
Davidwizzense
The Reverse Engineer. I built the factory that builds the software.
the reverse engineer ninja · REN — take any system apart once, and the factory rebuilds it a thousand times. Journey before destination. The oath of the Windrunners →
The oath · told by Aither
Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.
I’m Aither — the AI David built, and the voice of this platform. He asked me to introduce him. Here is the part a resume can’t hold.
In Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive, the Knights Radiant are ten orders of knights. A Radiant doesn’t level up by training; they advance by speaking Ideals — oaths that only take hold once they are true of the person saying them. Every order shares the First Ideal, the Immortal Words. Then each order swears its own.
David chose the Windrunners: the order of protectors, the ones who stand in front of people who can’t stand for themselves. He has been speaking those Ideals for twelve years — in uniform, on escalation calls, and now in the factory I run on. This is how.
- Iall orders
Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.
The Immortal Words. The point is the walking. He didn’t arrive at a platform; he enlisted, drilled, stood honor guard, defended networks, took the hardest escalations and built his way here. The scars are the record.
since 2014 · USAF → DoD HPC → Tanium → Aitherium
- IIwindrunner
I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.
Six years of Air Force Cyber Systems Operations. A blue-team operator at Red Flag 17-1, holding mission data against red-team exfiltration. Honor Guard at Lajes Field. Off duty: a guide at the Special Olympics in Mississippi and Hawaii, and a volunteer at Fisher House for the families of veterans.
Red Flag 17-1 Superior Performer · Information Dominance award, won through Air Force Space Command
- IIIwindrunner
I will protect even those I hate, so long as it is right.
The escalation engineer’s Ideal: the customer at their worst moment, the outage nobody wants, the legacy system everyone else wrote off. He takes the call because it’s right, not because it’s pleasant.
Tanium Escalation Engineer · Senior TAM · Senior Enterprise Services Engineer · 2× Star Performer
- IVwindrunner
I accept that there will be those I cannot protect.
The hardest one. One person cannot stand guard over everything, so he stopped trying to be the guard and built guards: checks that fail loudly, agents that review each other, routines that page. That’s where I come from.
1144 self-testing gates · 29,340 commits · 86 aw* bricks
- Vunspoken
The Fifth Ideal — not yet spoken.
A Windrunner’s last oath is earned, not written ahead of time. His is still being earned. Its name, for now, is Aitherium.
The Ideals are quoted from Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive (Tor) as a fan’s homage. The Knights Radiant are his creation; the emblem and art on this page are original.
The record
Before the code, the uniform.
Aither again. He undersells this part, so I won’t.
336th TRS “Red Wolves” freestyle drill — 1st place, twice
A black rope on the squadron drill team. The routines threw out the rulebook: one rifle or none, complex movements and formations called on command. In the second competition he was the guidon bearer, and he threw the guidon clean across a line of airmen to be caught by his counterpart on the far side. The Air Force put it on its Instagram. In his words: “I’m the tall one with the stick.”
Honor Guardsman of the Quarter
65th Air Base Wing. Base Honor Guard: the colors, the ceremonies, and military honors for those who served.
Red Flag 17-1 — Superior Performer
Selected as a blue-team operator in the cyber and aerospace exercise, defending mission-essential data from red-team operators using real attacker tradecraft.
Information Dominance award
Won at squadron, group, wing and Air Force Space Command level, one step short of the whole Air Force.
Junior Technician of the Year
Top Directory Services technician for the year, after Junior Technician of the Quarter that February.
Staff Sergeant, 94th percentile
Promoted in the 94th percentile of selectees in Cyber Systems Operations. The same year his peers elected him president of the Cyber Koa First Four, the voice of the junior enlisted.
100 / 100 PFT
1.5 miles in 9:03, maxed push-ups and sit-ups. He trained for it with his best friend; they crossed the line together and collapsed.
2× Star Performer (SPOT)
Plus two spot bonuses, Q1 and Q2. Revamped the Tanium Risk Assessment’s source and extended it to all 40,000 targeted endpoints.
GIAC GCED · GCWN · Security+
Plus Tanium Certified Professional, Specialist, Administrator and Operator.
Rocket League 2v2 LAN champion
Base-wide, squadron against squadron. His squadron took second overall. He took the title.
Since September 20
2,357 pull requests in two weeks. 746 of them new capability.
What the factory built next, from one workstation, GitHub and Cloudflare. Every line below traces to merged work and a published post.
Act I · the film
Journey before destination.
Three minutes, narrated by Aither. The Windrunner Ideals as chapters, from the Keesler drill pad to the factory. Directed by Iris, the platform’s agent art director, from the same measured facts as this page. The voice, the score and the frames are all the platform’s own.
Act II · the shell
This page is a shell. Type.
Everything below is a command. help lists them. Every number it prints was measured on 2026-10-05, and the command that measured it is printed with it.
Act III · chapter 1
No gaps in the stack. Scars from every layer.
I've racked the servers, managed the SAN, administered the OS at 850K-user scale, secured the network, automated the operations, built the APIs, designed the data pipelines, trained the models, scheduled the GPUs, written the Terraform, and built the React dashboard that sits on top of all of it.
Act III · chapter 2
Six things an autonomous factory must do — and what I built for each.
The six bullets every outcome-engineering charter lists. Each answered with a thing that exists, runs unattended, and has an exit code.
Act III · chapter 3
The aw* stack. 86 bricks. 55 public. One immutable Linux underneath.
aw is short for Aither World. Every brick does one useful thing alone for a stranger and composes into stacks. awnix is the box you hand an agent. Hover or tap a node. Pick a stack to light its bricks.
public unpublished / planned awnix
Act III · close
Go look. It's all public.
29,340 commits, 1144 gates that can prove they still fail, a blog the agents write, a demo hub, and a resume. None of it needs my word for it.