Giovanni Maruzzelli (available at OpenTelecom.IT) is heavily engaged with FreeSWITCH. In it, he wrote interfacing with Skype and cellular phones. He's a consultant in the telecommunication sector, developing software and conducting training courses for FreeSWITCH, SIP, WebRTC, Kamailio, and OpenSIPS.
An Internet technology pioneer, he was the cofounder of Italia Online in 1996. It is the most popular Italian portal and consumer ISP. Also, he was the architect of its Internet technologies (www.italiaonline.it). Then, Giovanni was the supervisor of Internet operations and the architect of the first engine for paid access to ilsole24ore.com, the most read financial newspaper in Italy, and its databases (migrated from the mainframe).
After that, he was the CEO of the venture-capital-funded company Matrice, developing telemail unified messaging and multiple-language phone access to e-mail (text to speech). He was also the CTO of the incubator-funded company Open4, an open source managed applications provider.
For 2 years, Giovanni worked in Serbia as an Internet and telecommunication investment expert for IFC, an arm of The World Bank.
Since 2005, he has been based in Italy and serves ICT and telecommunication companies worldwide.