Robert Smallshire
Founder And CEO at Sixty North AS
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Smallshire is a founder and CEO with over 25 years of software and domain experience, blending leadership in product architecture with hands-on engineering across energy, geoscience and media production. Based in Oslo, he leads Sixty North AS to build training media tools and consult on software architecture, domain-driven design and scientific/engineering systems, while advising resource and transition-focused companies at board level. He has led large engineering teams and long-lived platform strategies (notably at Roxar) and still contributes code to notable open-source Python projects such as pyserial and gpxpy, adding asyncio support and Python 3 compatibility. A PhD structural geologist by training, he uniquely translates deep scientific domain knowledge into robust software for reservoir modelling, geospatial systems and smart energy. Robert is a regular conference speaker and trainer, known for turning complex scientific requirements into practical, maintainable software and teaching others to do the same.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Structural Geology, Ph.D. Structural Geology at University of Leeds
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (20)
asynchronous10
test-automation10
unit-testing10
debugging10
debug10
lib10
python10
async10
testing10
asyncio10
serial-communication10
gpx10
git9
file-handling8
qtcreator6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pyserial/pyserial
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Python serial port access library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 13 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on enhancing the `pyserial` library, specifically addressing asynchronous I/O and compatibility issues. They implemented features to support the asyncio streams API, enabling the use of `Serial` connections within the asynchronous context. The user also made improvements to the code related to non-blocking serial port operations, timeout management, and write buffering. Furthermore, the user ensured compatibility with Python versions and corrected errors in code.
pythonserialserialportserial-portpython2
tkrajina/gpxpy
Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
gpx-py is a python GPX parser. GPX (GPS eXchange Format) is an XML based file format for GPS tracks.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:38 commits in 26 days
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the Python GPX parser library by porting it to Python 3 while maintaining Python 2 compatibility. Their work included fixing bugs related to object comparisons in Python 3, as well as improving the test suite and fixing unicode handling. The user demonstrated proficiency in debugging and refactoring existing code.
gpx-libraryfile-formatpythonexchangefile-based
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