Welcome to NeanderPaul's Logbook:

Who is NeanderPaul?

I’ve always had a deep need to understand how things work. As a teenager, when computers were shifting from rare to everywhere, I gravitated toward them instinctively. I downloaded, installed, broke, and reinstalled anything I could get my hands on, software, media, tools, half-understood programs pulled from corners of the internet. I learned by experimenting, copying, modifying, and watching what changed. Long before formal education, curiosity was the teacher.

After high school, that curiosity took a more structured form. I worked at a desk job at the Department of Revenue, where much of my time was spent navigating disconnected databases, public records, and search tools to track down delinquent corporate tax holders and business owners. It wasn’t glamorous, but it taught me something important: systems are rarely clean, data is rarely complete, and understanding comes from stitching together imperfect pieces.

Then life pulled me away from screens and into the physical world. I spent years working in construction, manufacturing, logistics, mechanical repair, and maintenance, driving heavy equipment, repairing diesel engines, fabricating parts, and keeping systems running when failure wasn’t theoretical. Those years taught me what books and tutorials often don’t: how things actually break, how people actually use tools, and how consequences ripple outward when systems fail.

Eventually, the two paths began to converge. The early obsession with computers and the later understanding of physical systems met somewhere in the middle. Today, my work lives at the intersection of cybersecurity, embedded systems, IoT, defensive engineering, and the quiet discipline of building tools to understand other tools. Projects like Logic Hunter aren’t just utilities; their ways of thinking are made executable.

This body of work, what I call RevLab, isn’t a destination. It’s a process. A long, ongoing attempt to break systems apart carefully, study their behavior, and rebuild them with intention. This isn’t about fitting in or chasing trends. It’s about understanding deeply, documenting honestly, and continuing the work.