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Adam Davis

Senior Systems Development Manager

Adam is a seasoned Software Engineering Manager with over a decade of experience leading medium to large-scale teams of testers, QA professionals, developers, and release engineers. He is passionate about cultivating collaborative environments that spark innovation, both in professional settings and through side projects. Adam believes that side quests are crucial for nurturing creativity and skill development, allowing individuals to explore new technologies and approaches. With a focus on creating scalable solutions across diverse infrastructure platforms, he combines a practical and analytical mindset to address complex challenges. Adam is dedicated to fostering a culture where teams can thrive and achieve outstanding results.

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Moments (16)

Want to practise API testing? Try an API that lies to you

I built Decrypt the Narrative for a university hackathon. The idea was pretty simple: take a hidden narrative, smash it into individual words, then make teams call an API to collect the pieces and ...

11 Aug

When a technical demo becomes something more

On the train home after speaking at Birmingham DevOps last night, I’ve been thinking about why I’ve started to love getting back into public speaking. It is not really the technology itself anymore...

17 Jul

Wins and grins

We love a good TWiQ episode that celebrates the wins. And in today's episode we did just that. So here goes, we celebrated the following wins... Diana Dromey ran her first ever 10k, goin...

10 Jul

Turning an Audience into a Display

The London audience holding up their phones in a near-dark venue, each one becoming a single pixel in a giant live display driven by pixelmesh. What you’re seeing here is just a small sample of the...

6 Jul

Insights (2)

Reducing the cost of curiosity with AI

Build for fun, build to learn, build for business. How do the things you build outside work teach you inside it?

17 Aug

What's the hardest part of defining "expected behaviour" for a system that produces different output every time?

When a system improvises like a jazz soloist, "different" stops meaning "wrong"

3 Jun

Sessions (3)

Building vision systems with AI in the real world

A live demo and case study showing how AI can help build real-world vision systems, while human experimentation and testing still do the hardest work.

23 Jul

What you feed AI matters more than how you ask - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 22

Adam Davis explains why observability, not prompt engineering, is the real challenge in AI-assisted projects, using his phone-display art project Pixelmesh as a live test bed.

18 Jun

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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is when your browser gets tricked into doing something, like submitting a form using your login, without you knowing.It works because browsers send your cookies automatically, even if the request comes from another site. That means an attacker can abuse your login to perform actions on your behalf. Best way to stop it? Use CSRF tokens, set SameSite on cookies, and don’t trust requests just because the user’s logged in.

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