Nick O’Leary is the co-founder and CTO of FlowForge Inc. He is the co-creator of the Node-RED project, a low-code programming tool for event-driven applications. He previously worked at IBM where he got to do interesting things with interesting technologies and also play with toys. His focus on IoT comes from having worked on projects ranging from smart meter energy monitoring to retrofitting sensors to industrial manufacturing lines with Raspberry Pis and Arduinos. With a background in pervasive messaging, he is a contributor to the Eclipse Paho and sits on the OASIS MQTT Technical Committee.