Joff Thyer
Owner at River Gum Security LLC
Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area United States
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Top SchoolJoff Thyer is an experienced information security consultant, educator, and founder with over a decade of hands-on work translating complex operational needs into pragmatic network security architectures. He leads River Gum Security and trains professionals through courses he authors, blending deep technical expertise in penetration testing, packet analysis, malware development, and Python-driven security tooling. A longtime SANS instructor and IANS faculty member, he couples classroom rigor with real-world red team engagements and custom security software in C/C++, C#, Python, and assembly. GIAC-certified (GPEN, GWAPT, GXPN) and a former campus network architect, he’s equally comfortable re-architecting large Cisco deployments or fine-tuning AI models for adversarial use cases. Off-mic he co-hosted Security Weekly, and his GitHub persona hints at a hacker’s curiosity and playful philosophy toward risk and learning.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Diploma in Computer Science Computer Science, Associate Diploma in Computer Science Computer Science at University of South AustraliaM.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at University of North Carolina at GreensboroScotch College
Github Skills (6)
spray8
metasploit7
system-calls6
steroids5
powershell4
security4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yoda66/RIRTools
Jan 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
RiverGumSecurity/AILabs
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:63 PRs, 122 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
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