Secrets, API Keys & Credentials: What Developers Get Wrong
The most common mistakes developers make with secrets and API keys, and how to avoid them.
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Ajay Prajapat
AI Systems Architect
15+ years of experience · Ex-Apple
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About the suggested mentor
Ajay Prajapat
AI Systems Architect
- 15+ years of experience
- Ex-Apple
AI Systems Architect with 15+ years of experience, including building production GenAI systems — RAG pipelines, AI agents, prompt engineering and GenAI architecture. His sessions are hands-on: expect real workflows, live builds and honest trade-offs, not slideware.
Skills & expertise
- AI-assisted Development
- Full-stack Development
- AI Agents
- RAG & MCP
- System Design
- Project Reviews
- Prompt Engineering
- GenAI Architecture
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What this session would cover
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- 1Common mistakes: hard-coded keys, committed .env files and shared tokens
- 2How leaked keys are found and abused
- 3Environment variables and secret managers
- 4Scanning repositories for leaked secrets
- 5Rotating and revoking credentials
- 6Team practices for handling secrets
Who it's for
- • Developers at all levels
- • Teams managing shared credentials
You'd leave with
- A secrets-handling checklist
- Scanning and rotation steps
- Team practices to adopt
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