Adam Caudill is an independent security researcher and software developer. He is currently the application development manager at Advanced Call Center Technologies, LLC in Johnson City, TN. Prior to this, he worked as an independent contractor and co-founder of an ISV from 2001 to 2005, and as a volunteer with a security research group from 2000 to. 2002.. Caudill is the founder of the BSides Knoxville security conference, and the Underhanded Crypto Contest.. Caudill blogs on security and development related topics. He has contributed to a number of open source projects, including bbPress, ccsrch, openssl-net, libsodium-net, more.. Caudill has coding experience in C#, VB, PHP, Ruby, C, Java, and Python.. Adam Caudill attended Florida Metropolitan University.