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Simon Tomes
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.

“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”

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Leading With Quality - Brighton
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Hey Simon! 
It was good to see you too at the MoT London meetup, and yes a shame we didn’t get to catch up properly! Speak soon :)
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Shai Hulud Strikes Again (v2)
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What's happening in your mobile testing world right now?
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Why shoot for gold when bronze is good enough! - Ep 113
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Want to be a better Quality Engineer: Lose the Ego
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Dear CTO: it's not 2015 anymore
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The Community's Guide to Documentation
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Why I Chose to Be a Director of Quality Engineering (Not QA)
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GOT THE JOB !!!!
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A Lack of Inspiration – Ideas for Community Sessions: How I Got Here
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Is your hiring process neurodiversity-friendly?
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The Cost of “It Works for Us”
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Uber is offering AI gigs for PhDs as it becomes a 'platform for work,' CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says
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Invest in test artefacts, they can last longer than the application's source code
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 50
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The reason so much testing content feels stuck in the past
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Quality feedback over testing artefacts - Ep 111
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Smarter Quality Engineering with Agentic AI
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Reddit’s Engineering Excellence Survey
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Architectural debt is not just technical debt
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Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail?
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Why Is the AI Czar Already Saying OpenAI Won’t Get a Bailout?
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If I Was Your Head of Engineering…
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I am back at work and it feels weird!
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Innovation Is Everyone’s Job
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Councils of agents
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Simple Skills—Strong Leadership
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The uncomfortable truth about job security in tech
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2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned
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Abusing Delegation with Impacket (Part 1): Unconstrained Delegation
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A Hippocratic Oath for tech… with teeth
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The Serenity Protocol: Can Emotional Stability Be Engineered?
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A Lack of Inspiration – Ideas for Community Sessions: Hands On Learning
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AI researchers ’embodied’ an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams
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From MoT London to MoTaCon
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🎉 400+ Stars on Ministry of Testing! 🎉
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Don't make me tap the signs of quality
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The New Calculus of AI-based Coding
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 49
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To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything
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TBM 385: "We Have To Simplify!"
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Building a Business Case for Test Automation in Insurance industry
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API vs Web Service: Understanding the Differences
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How AI is Levelling the API Governance Playing Field
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27 Continuous Integration Metrics for Software Delivery
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The Global Quality Index 2025/2026: Highlights
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Resilience by Design: Lessons in Multi-Cloud Readiness
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More than 1.1 million public repositories now use an LLM SDK
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GitHub Universe 2025: Where developer innovation took center stage
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Security Doesn’t Have to Hurt
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None of us Read the specs
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What system design concepts would you add?
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System Design in a Nutshell
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