W. Mouton

Independent Security Researcher & AI Architect

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Currently

Building Souverain Labs; Chief AI Architect & IAM Analyst duties at Plank Designs; completing Cisco Network/Endpoint Security and TryHackMe Pre-Security/Security Engineer badges; growing the detection library at /detections/.

Highlights

  • Founder & Security Researcher at Souverain Labs; Chief AI Architect & IAM Analyst at Plank Designs (Dec 2024 – Present)
  • Full-stack security, from web apps (Next.js/Django/React) to IAM at a web design agency to SOC triage case studies
  • Published findings tracked at /findings/ (WM-2026-001 through WM-2026-004) and case studies at /incident-response/

Summary

Independent security researcher and AI architect specialising in reproducible, isolated and security-boundary systems, plus web and AI security. Founder of Souverain Labs and Chief AI Architect at Plank Designs. Background in networking, offensive security, defensive security, software engineering and AI architecture, with hands-on experience in identity and access management and security operations. Every finding is documented with a threat model, a disclosure timeline and a mitigation.

Work Experience

Founder
Dec 2025 – Present
Souverain Labs
  • Architecting the next generation of Bio-Synthetic Nervous Systems to advance human longevity through the deep convergence of Artificial Intelligence and biological frameworks.
Co-Founder, Chief AI Architect & IAM Analyst
Dec 2024 – Present
Plank Designs
Northern Cape, SA
  • Co-founded the agency and led its AI architecture, engineering strategy, and intelligent automation initiatives.
Freelance Senior Software Engineer
Aug 2023 – Sep 2024
Origin Wellness
  • Co-developed and engineered key areas of the company website, including primary navigation, information architecture, responsive layouts, and interactive UI systems.
CTO
Jan 2023 – Aug 2023
Random Access Media Productions
  • Led the company's technical architecture and AI strategy, architecting scalable systems that quadrupled revenue and transformed core business operations.
Software Engineer III
Nov 2022 – Jan 2023
Random Access Media Productions
  • Architected and deployed a robust internal CRM using Python and Django, featuring seamless integrations with Google Workspace APIs and a high-performance PostgreSQL backend.
Software Engineer II
Jan 2020 – Oct 2020
Random Access Media Productions
  • Engineered high-performance full-stack applications using Next.js and TailwindCSS, bridging the gap between responsive front-end interfaces and robust SQL-backend data architectures.
Freelance Software Engineer
Apr 2019 – Jan 2020
Varidian
  • Built modern, responsive websites and web applications using React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Private Offensive Security Consultant
Feb 2014 – Jan 2017
NightOwlSystems
  • Conducted authorized offensive security assessments across Windows, Linux, wireless networks, and identity infrastructure, identifying vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, privilege-escalation paths, and attack vectors.
IT & Network Freelancer
Feb 2012 – Jan 2014
Nodeworks
  • Providing independent IT and networking support for individuals and small businesses, with a focus on reliable infrastructure, troubleshooting, security, and system administration.

Education

MIT
2026 – Present
Computer Systems Security (OpenCourseWare)
Online
  • Coursework: OS security, capabilities, information flow control, language security, network protocols, hardware security and web application security
Harvard University
2023 – 2025
CS50: Cybersecurity
Online
  • Coursework: Securing Accounts and Data, Threats and Defences, Cryptography, and Security Ethics
Harvard University
2021 – 2023
CS50: Artificial Intelligence
Online
  • Coursework: Search, Knowledge, Uncertainty, Optimization, Learning, Neural Networks, Language
Harvard University
2018 – 2020
CS50: Computer Science
Online
  • Coursework: Algorithms, Data Structures, Abstraction, Memory, and Web Development
Bugcrowd University
2016 – 2017
Ethical Hacking & Cybersecurity
Online
  • Coursework: Web Application Security, Vulnerability Discovery, and Responsible Disclosure

Selected Projects

SOC Incident Response
DFIR · Detection · Reproducible
Evidence-driven investigation of a synthetic intrusion: environment and attack design, generated telemetry, a verifiable evidence chain, detection engineering and a validated response.
View project →
Reprobe
Nix · Go · Reproducible builds
Reproducible-build verifier that rebuilds an artifact from pinned source in independent, hermetic environments and reports where the outputs diverge.
View project →
KeyTUI
Rust · TUI · SQLite
Terminal token vault for rapid credential access, with Vim-style navigation and a persistent SQLite backend.
View project →
BioFly
Python · Evo2 · Next.js
Genomic analysis tool using Evo2 to predict disease likelihood from DNA mutations.
View project →

Certifications

Verification links are not published; request verification via /contact/.

Codecademy:
Google Associate Cloud Engineer: Identity & Access Management (IAM)
freeCodeCamp:
Scientific Computing with PythonData Analysis with PythonMachine Learning with Python
HackerRank:
Go (Basic)React (Basic)Python (Basic)
Pluralsight:
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Udemy:
Web Development

Badges

TryHackMe:
Pre-Security (badge pending)Security Engineer (badge pending)

Case Studies

Published Findings

Technical Skills

Security:
Web & API securityAI securityThreat modellingDetection engineeringSigmaSplunk SPLMicrosoft Sentinel KQLMITRE ATT&CKIncident responseSOC triageIdentity & access managementCoordinated disclosure
Engineering:
RustGoPythonZigNixLuaNext.jsSQLReactWayland (Smithay)
AI & Data:
Machine LearningDeep LearningLLMs & RAGLLM evaluation & red-teamingVector search / embeddingsPyTorchTensorFlowHugging FaceONNX RuntimeMLflowScikit-LearnPandasNumPyPolars
Systems & Cloud:
NixOS (reproducible, declarative)Void LinuxFreeBSDKVM/QEMUnftablesLUKS2DockerGitAWSGCPAzure