About

The profile, with the evidence alongside.

Lines with an empty evidence column do not make it onto this page, and the ones here can be checked. The level says how recent the work is, not how good the person doing it was.

From the idea to running in the field

Electronic engineer, on the Rome Register of Engineers since 2003. Hands-on with systems since the mid-1990s, while still at university, and professionally since 2003. Today it means 25 servers checked every night and more than ten PrestaShop shops looked after, including a multistore across four markets.

On development the public record speaks: two plugins officially published on the wordpress.org directory after the review by the team that runs it, and a PrestaShop module with its code open on GitHub. Custom plugins and modules for WordPress, WooCommerce and PrestaShop from 1.6 to 9.x, with integrations to payments, e-invoicing, ERPs and APIs.

A single point of contact. Whoever writes the code knows the server it runs on, puts it live and looks after it over time. No hand offs between agency, developer and sysadmin. Every piece of work stays documented.

Next to the work on sites and servers there are 20 years of digital design and documented industrial integrations: digital and mechanical design, hardware debugging, plant engineering and structured cabling. On the technical sales side, technical offers and specifications for public tenders, petrochemical plants and supplies of radioisotope based devices.

Then programmable logic on FPGA, AI models run in house and expert reports signed as a registered engineer. Training counts more than a hundred professional courses certified by the Italian National Council of Engineers. Between 2008 and 2011 he wrote more than a hundred technical articles for Italian IT magazines. The table below puts the evidence next to every line.

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Current means used in the last twelve months. Established means years of work, less frequent today. Qualification means a registration or a course of study, which can be checked where it is recorded.

Electronics and digital design

What	Level	Evidence
degree in electronic engineering and registration in Rome	qualification	Register of Engineers of the Province of Rome, section A, no. 24157
digital design and industrial prototypes	established	work delivered in industry, documented on LinkedIn
systems integration on climate chambers	established	work in industry documented on LinkedIn
hardware debugging on boards and systems	established	work in industry documented on LinkedIn
mechanical design	established	work in industry documented on LinkedIn
plant engineering and structured cabling	established	work in industry documented on LinkedIn
complete ICT systems, hardware, firmware and software, civil, defence and space	established	roles documented on LinkedIn
burn-in boards, test programs and life-time test machines on National Instruments real-time controllers	established	work in industry from 2006 to 2009 documented on LinkedIn
firmware and integration on Linux and Android for custom electronics, over USB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi	established	freelance assignment from 2011 to 2012 documented on LinkedIn
telemetry, quality assurance and purchasing under ISO 9001:2000	established	certified consultant for a US maker of telemetry systems, 2003-2005
verification of the executive design of a remote control and remote management system for a public body	established	a 2020 assignment for a land reclamation consortium, awarded by resolution

FPGA and programmable logic

What	Level	Evidence
Verilog, synthesis and place and route with Yosys and nextpnr	current	designs taken onto a development board
memory interfaces and serial links	current	memory bandwidth measured on the board
hardware cryptography and AI models for programmable logic	current	cryptography working on the board, AI model in development

Software

What	Level	Evidence
Python backends with FastAPI, PHP, Node.js	current	a FastAPI and HTMX business system, API services in production
backend development as the main role since 2014	established	track record documented on LinkedIn
native apps for iOS, Android and Wear OS	current	OpenCard, phone and watch, on the App Store and Google Play, with its page in the sources
relational databases, MariaDB and SQLite	current	products in service
non relational databases, MongoDB	current	management software for a vending network, in daily use since 2019
complete business systems written from scratch in PHP, Node.js and Python, also on PHP MVC frameworks	current	several business systems in service, from the database to the interface
integrations between in-house systems and third party cloud products, over APIs and web services	current	integrations in production
OpenERP (now Odoo) and the business software of a national vendor, in Python and PostgreSQL	established	employed work from 2012 to 2014 documented on LinkedIn
Android apps since 2013, including augmented reality with visual markers	established	projects documented on LinkedIn
web frontend when the backend needs one	established	the interfaces of his own products

Linux systems and infrastructure

What	Level	Evidence
Linux administration since the mid nineties	established	from Slackware to Debian, with the kernel compiled by hand
VPS in service, web, mail, certificates, backup, monitoring	current	25 machines under automated nightly checks
containers and systemd services with Quadlet, release automation	current	the infrastructure of the running projects
Cloudflare, DNS, edge rules and caching	current	sites in production

Applied artificial intelligence

What	Level	Evidence
models running locally on GPU, vLLM, quantisation, service tuning	current	a server with models in service
RAG, retrieval and generation over company documents	current	a product delivered in 2026
agent assisted development as a working method	current	products built that way in 2026
Anthropic's Claude: the API, Claude Code, Model Context Protocol, agent skills and Cowork	qualification	seven Anthropic Academy courses completed in 2026, each with its certificate in the sources
hands-on AI and machine learning course, 21 hours with the exam passed	qualification	Unipro, 2024
content pipelines with automated fact checking	current	validators that reject invented numbers and names
working knowledge of the AI Act and its transparency duties	current	course material and the changes made to the sites under management

AIPIA AI Test badge issued to Massimiliano Brasile: 100%, Expert level — AIPIA's AI Test on the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, 20 October 2026: 20 correct answers out of 20. AIPIA presents it as an indicative test, not as a credential. Verify the badge on aipia.it »

Security

What	Level	Evidence
scheduled checks and malware hunting across a server estate	current	nightly scan across 25 VPS, with real findings
cleanup of compromised sites, webshells, droppers, fake accounts	current	documented work on PrestaShop and WordPress installations, including a WooCommerce shop with a backdoor and 169 spam blocks removed from 16 pages
detection of CVE-2017-9841, PHPUnit shipped by mistake inside production modules	established	script published on GitHub in 2020 and run on every site under management, in the sources
hardening of servers and applications, configuration review	current	infrastructure in service
security review of code and dependencies	current	his own products and other people's
penetration testing assisted by local models	current	a testing chain adapted to run on his own GPU instead of metered APIs
mail and domain diagnostics, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, reputation	current	a diagnostic tools hub published and in service
advanced training in counter-intelligence	qualification	Istituto Gino Germani, Rome, three days in April 2026

E-commerce and sites in service

What	Level	Evidence
PrestaShop from 1.6 to 9.x, custom modules, themes, multistore and multilanguage	current	more than ten installations looked after, including a multistore across four markets
open source PrestaShop modules	current	mbrandomproducts, a free module under the AFL 3.0 licence, code on GitHub in the sources
migration of shops and sites between servers, with controlled downtime	current	the move of a whole VPS with every site it hosted
migrations to and from PrestaShop and WordPress: content, products, orders, customers	current	installations moved between platforms and servers; Magento 1.x between 2012 and 2014
recovery of lost data by comparing the database dump with the new database	current	65 orders put back to the right status after a failed PrestaShop upgrade from 1.7 to 8.2
WordPress maintenance, updates and hardening	current	sites in service, with documented work
WordPress plugins on the official wordpress.org repository	current	two plugins officially published after the wordpress.org review, Vaglio Asserzioni Ambientali and Vaglio Garanzie e Riparabilità, with public code and their pages in the sources
web performance, measurement, diagnosis and fixes	current	pages taken to the limits of PageSpeed, measured before and after
hosting panels, Apache, nginx, PHP-FPM, outbound mail	current	servers in service
static site generators driven by structured data	current	commercial sites generated from templates and data files, this one included

Blockchain and verifiable credentials

What	Level	Evidence
verifiable credentials with the Open Badges 3.0 standard	current	a project born out of the training work, with its anchoring contract
anchoring contract on Polygon, written and tested on a test network	current	deployed on Amoy
content access through NFTs and wallets, protected distribution	current	the first blockchain project in production
Italian crypto taxation applied to simulations	current	strategies compared gross and net
backend of a B2B fintech platform in Node.js and Python, as co-founder and CTO	established	a startup from 2018 to 2022 documented on LinkedIn
Blockchain Technology for SMEs course, 24 hours	qualification	Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), 2025

On device AI

What	Level	Evidence
object recognition on a dedicated accelerator	current	automatic cataloguing of books, reading the text off the covers
computing on ARM boards, Raspberry Pi and Orange Pi	current	devices in service at client sites

Compartmentalised workstations

What	Level	Evidence
Qubes OS, work separated per client into distinct virtual machines	current	a development workstation in daily use, with its own templates and update proxy
nested virtualisation on Xen and a patch to the Qubes hypervisor	established	public guide and patch on GitHub, in the sources

Training and AI Act duties

What	Level	Evidence
AI literacy course for staff, as article 4 requires	current	classroom material in preparation, around ten days
document templates for adopting AI in a company	current	internal policy and notices produced
article 50 transparency duties applied to sites and content	current	changes made to the sites under management
a GDPR course of eight in person seminars	qualification	Register of Engineers of Rome

Writing and technical sales

What	Level	Evidence
writing about personal finance	established	a blog kept going for years
technical articles for Italian IT magazines, more than a hundred from 2008 to 2011	established	Hacker Journal and its sister titles on security, mobile and Linux; a monthly column in Wired Italia in 2009; articles for IT managers in Computer Business Review Italia
teaching	established	IT courses in 2003 and physics courses in 2011-2012
technical documentation and operating guides	current	project guides and product material
presales, technical offers and specifications for public tenders, petrochemical plants and supplies of radioisotope based devices	established	roles in industry documented on LinkedIn

More than a hundred professional courses certified by the Italian National Council of Engineers, also recorded on the LinkedIn profile. Co-founder of the Electronics and Microelectronics Committee of the Register of Engineers of Rome. For a public call the list can be extracted with title, body and year.

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