Adam Piper
Head Of Engineering (HoE) at PortSwigger
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Piper is a pragmatic engineering leader with 16 years’ experience advancing product and platform quality from hands-on software engineering to Head of Engineering at PortSwigger. He combines deep technical roots—spanning systems work in C, Python, C# and legacy environments—with product-facing roles, having transitioned from software engineer to technical product manager before leading engineering. Adam is experienced in shaping team practices (TDD, SOLID, Kanban/Scrum), improving release processes, and introducing DVCS workflows across organisations. Based in Stevenage, he has a track record of turning customer feedback into measurable product improvements and mentoring teams to ship reliable, maintainable software. A detail-oriented architect who still pairs and codes, he brings both operational discipline and customer-aware product thinking to high-assurance security tooling.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Software Engineering, BEng Software Engineering at The University of Manchester
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Github Skills (200)
burp10
markdown10
obsidian10
bruteforce9
lxml9
sqlmap9
stack9
usb9
ide9
ghc9
lstm9
tesseract9
pycurl9
vulnerabilities8
autocomplete8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
PortSwigger/report-to-elastic-search
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
elasticsearch-databaseburpdatabaseelasticsearchpasses
ahri/ahriphplibs
Mar 2010 - Aug 2010
Contributions:93 commits in 5 months
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