Preston Holmes is Head of IoT solutions for Google Cloud Platform. A recovering academic, Preston moved from fish brains to technology 15 years ago, becoming deeply involved in the world of Python open source web frameworks. As a member of his local hackerspace for the last 10 years, Preston is taking his passion for building and making with electronics and combining it with his experience in building solutions on Cloud platforms for some of the world’s largest companies. He works with companies as a technologist and leader to help pierce the hype of the Internet of Things by bringing the physical world into their IT infrastructure, working building insight with data in Google’s massive infrastructure using a cutting edge big data toolkit.