Matteo Alessani

Current

Partner & Rails Developer at MyBlogJournal
Owner at Extendi

Past

Java Developer at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Web developer at Self-employed (Self-employed)

Education

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Recommended

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Matteo Alessani’s Summary

I'm a passionate Ruby on Rails developer with over 7 years of experience making web sites and custom software for clients. I'm the co-founder of Extendi, a Ruby on Rails web agency.

I'm the co-authour of Rails on the Road, a blog about Ruby on Rails, AJAX and some other cutting-edge technologies.

I'm also specialized in Rails Deployment configuration and server setup.

Matteo Alessani’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails, MySQL, AJAX, HTML, CSS, Agile Software Development, Debian Linux, Solaris, Mac OS.

Matteo Alessani’s Experience

Partner & Rails Developer

MyBlogJournal

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

MyBlogJournal is a new web 2.0 startup.

It aims is to become the biggest on-line news aggregator where you can write, manage, customize and create your own Journal, as “Wikipedia” it will be the future of information moderated by users.

Here you can find: millions of articles from thousand of internet magazines and blogs and every kind of images, videos and podcasts according to your interests.

MyBlogJournal gives you the chance to become a Journalist and our special correspondent, posting images and videos directly from your mobile!
Owner

Extendi

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

Extendi is a small company based in Florence, Italy, specialising in web development and consultation. We are multi-skilled IT engineers, programmers and designers. We like to think of ourselves as pragmatic geeks.

We have two in house projects (powered by Ruby on Rails):

- FeedMyApp: A web 2.0 directory.
- Professional on the Web: A portfolio directory for web agencies and freelancers.
Java Developer

Università degli Studi di Firenze

(Educational Institution; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2004 — February 2005 (3 months)

Developing JRTAILab, a Java Applet implementing a generic client for RTAI-XML, which provides real time process control.
Web developer
Self-employed (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2002 — January 2005 (3 years 1 month)

Self employed web developer specialized in PHP, ASP and ASP.NET custom solutions for clients.

Matteo Alessani’s Education

Università degli Studi di Firenze

110/110L , Engineer , 1998 — 2004

A thesis based on developing a RTAI (Real Time Application Interface) linux server and a Java client (JRTAILab) to monitor and control process from a non real time OS through the RTAI server.

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Matteo Alessani’s Interests:

cutting edge technology, web 2.0, travel, music, trekking, skiing, snowboarding, swimming, snorkeling

Matteo Alessani’s Groups:

Web 2.0
Gmail Users
Italian Web 2.0 Experts
TechGarage
Università degli Studi di Firenze Network (view Alumni and University professional profiles)
FlorenceIN - ClubIN Firenze & Toscana
Pro @ Ruby
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