Matteo is a code pirate and mad scientist. He spends most of his days programming between node.js, Ruby, Java and Objective-C, but mostly node.js. He recently got a Ph.D. with a thesis titled "Application Platforms for the Internet of Things", and the most prominent outcome is the Ponte platform, released as Open Source whitin the Eclipse Foundation. He is also the author of the Node.js MQTT Broker, Mosca and of the LevelGraph database. He is co-author of the book "Javascript: Best Practices" edited by FAG, Milan. In the summer he loves sailing the Sirocco.