Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Podcasting, Review Conference Proposals
STEC and SQEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Activity
earned:
Wow moments in the software testing essentials course
thanked contributors on:
Great night last night! Fully packed venue! Thank you so much to Scale Factory for supporting us! The food was great, the venue was brilliant! Too many exclamation marks!!!Â
earned:
Too many exclamation marks!
awarded Diana Dromey for:
Too many exclamation marks!
awarded MoT London for:
Too many exclamation marks!
Contributions
I remember something Ady said is that you can always learn something new from training courses at any level. I've got 2 ISTQB foundations certs and after achieving those 15 years ago, I've not real...
Today, it's mostly a bad idea.
Why it no longer works well
Modern ATS systems don't just count keywords. They:
 Parse the structure of the CV.Â
 Look for keywords in context. ...
World Cup ducks
Quark quark
Vibe coding, agentic engineering or coding, conversational programming, and others are terms for using AI (Artificial Intelligence, not actual intelligence) to create code, products and systems. Th...
Judy and Clare trade spicy hot takes, from notification overload and 'done > perfect' learning, to a passionate deep dive on accessibility as a moral (and business) imperative.
Software development is inherently discriminatory because we know about digital accessibility and still don't do it. We have the knowledge, the skills, and the moral imperative to include all ...
A lot of my week has been doing things in preparation for a family party for my 60th birthday. A good win was finding party food catering from the supermarket I normally get deliveries from. So the...
I always enjoy meet-ups and hosting them. Here I am introducing Colin, getting distracted by Scott and telling the audience corny jokesÂ
