Description: Nicholas is an accredited software engineer with over thirty years of Information Technology experience, across a variety of roles, languages, systems and domains. The last thirteen years have been spent in the research domain, partly in a software architecture research group, but mostly helping researchers with software and data projects and technology. More recently I have been actively engaged in the Research Software Engineering (RSE) community, as a member of the organising committee for the 2019 UK RSE conference, and as secretary of the RSE Association of Australian and New Zealand.