Eng. Nicola Peditto is a Software Engineer at SmartMe.io s.r.l. He earned his Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Messina (Italy) in 2012, with a final grade of 110/110. The title of his thesis was "Autonomous Internal Management of a PaaS-level Distributed Middleware for Cloud Computing." He served as a system administrator from November 2012 to October 2013 on the EU FP7 project "VISION Cloud," which was awarded at IBC 2013 in Amsterdam. In 2013, he obtained a 2nd level Master's degree in "Open Source and Cyber Security," with a final grade of 110/110. In 2013, he also obtained the professional qualification as an Engineer (Senior), with a grade of 200/200. From November 2013 to October 2016, he worked on the FP7 EU project "CloudWave" as a system administrator and software developer. He is part of the design and development team, serving as a Senior Software Engineer, on the "Stack4Things" project, initially developed for the Mobile and Distributed Systems Lab (MDSLab) at the University of Messina and later taken over by SmartMe.io s.r.l. Since 2018, he has been working at SmartMe.io s.r.l. as a Senior Software Engineer, focusing on software design and development.