Othab Solutions delivers full-lifecycle software engineering, cloud architecture, and adversarial security testing for South Africa's most demanding enterprises.
Red team engagements, infrastructure and application penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and security code reviews. We simulate real adversaries to expose your weaknesses before they're exploited.
Full-stack delivery across complex enterprise systems — from high-throughput Java backends and Angular frontends to microservices, event-driven architectures, and API ecosystems.
Cloud-native design on AWS and Azure — containerisation, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering. We build environments that scale and self-heal.
We define and execute digital roadmaps that align technology investment with measurable business outcomes — governance frameworks, vendor assessments, and build-versus-buy analysis.
Stakeholder interviews, technical audit, risk profiling, and scope definition. We map constraints before writing a single line of code.
Solution blueprints, data modelling, security threat modelling, and technology selection. Reviewed by senior architects.
Agile sprints with continuous integration, automated testing, and security scanning baked into every pipeline stage.
Production cutover, monitoring, incident runbooks, and optional managed services. We stay accountable after go-live.
Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration — Wits Business School
BCom Computer Science — University of Cape Town
Mahlatse is a hands-on technologist and business operator with over a decade of enterprise software experience across South Africa's banking, automotive, and insurance sectors. He has led cross-functional engineering teams of up to 15 developers — defining architecture, enforcing code quality, mentoring juniors, and shipping production systems at Standard Bank, BMW, and Discovery.
At Othab, he sets the technical direction, personally reviews system designs, manages client delivery, and leads the offensive security practice. His approach is simple: architect for scale, code for resilience, and always leave the system better than you found it.
Whether you need a full engineering squad, a security audit, or strategic guidance on a complex programme — we're ready to talk.