Robert Smallshire is a founding director of Sixty North, a technology consulting and training business in Norway providing services throughout Europe. Robert has worked in senior software architecture and technical management roles in the energy sector. He has dealt with understanding, designing, advocating and implementing effective architectures for sophisticated scientific, enterprise and embedded software in Python for over 15 years. He is currently bootstrapping a new Internet-of-Things venture for solar power prediction and monitoring. He is organiser of the Oslo Python group and holds, a Ph.D. in a natural science, and has a strong interest in getting software right!