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Teddy Thobane

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Senior Security Researcher at Whirly Labs developing full-chain exploits and publishing CVE research across software and devices.

South Africa
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At Whirly Labs, I lead client-facing vulnerability research and exploitability-focused assessments across web, desktop, and console applications, routers, and other targets. I build bespoke proof-of-concept and full-chain exploits to validate impact and support root-cause analysis.

My research spans source-assisted and black-box analysis across Windows, Linux, Android, routers, desktop software, and backend services. Public work includes multiple CVEs and published exploit tooling, alongside NDA-protected memory-corruption, local privilege-escalation, and remote-code-execution findings.

At Orange Cyberdefense, I conducted penetration tests and security assessments of web applications and client networks, applying OWASP testing methods and documenting findings with reproduction steps and remediation recommendations.

I’ve also reverse engineered Windows applications, supported cybersecurity work for law-enforcement-facing projects, and presented research at BSides Johannesburg. My technical work includes Python, C, reverse engineering, and low-level debugging.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Security Researcher

Whirly Labs

Aug 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Lead client-facing vulnerability research and exploitability-focused security assessments across web applications, desktop applications, console applications, routers, and other targets. Coordinate with clients and stakeholders, mentor junior researchers, and deliver detailed security reports.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Pretoria logoUP

University of Pretoria

B.Sc., Computer Science

2020 - 2022

B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Pretoria, completed from February 2020 to December 2022.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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