Born in Rome, Italy in 1975, Massimiliano Alessandri discovers the world of computing and the art of programming at the age of nine, on the Commodore 64, later moving to the Amiga and to Intel PC, developing in Basic, assembler and Pascal languages.
He started his commercial work experience by creating, in 1997, the first prototype of an "Intelligent House" in VRML, within a study commissioned by CSELT, in Turin.
In the following years, among other things, he developed an e-commerce platform, was involved, while working in the RAI Educational department, on development of the Multimedia Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences and lived in first-person the New Economy season in the technical division of E-Loft, a pan-European portal targeted to university students, working in Germany in a pan-european team made up by professionals coming from five European countries.
He later developed several Java games for the web and mobile phones, including a J2ME chess game published on the TIM network, and built innovative telemetry systems based on SMS for vending machines remote monitoring and vehicle location tracking. He was also involved in developing online cruise booking systems.
In 2003 decided to gradually abandon any kind of proprietary software, choosing to entirely devote himself to web application development using pure free software tools such as PHP and MySQL, and administration of Linux systems.
He began working as a consultant for Telematics Freedom Foundation, promoting direct democracy through telematics, an ideal he trusts and to whom devotes much of his time with passion.
In autumn 2005, after years of studies, he started the development of the Wedgefish platform, choosing to work independently, without being tied to any commercial company, to be entitled publishing it in 2008 as free software for the whole software community to enjoy it.