Maximo Gurmendez graduated from the Facultad de Ingenieria, Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a software engineer and a Sun Certified Professional in Java Technologies. In the past, he has worked as a software architect for a large educational institution in Uruguay designing learning platforms and academic management intranets. His research interests include modeling, data mining and semantic web technologies.

Maximo Gurmendez is currently a a graduate student at Northeastern University sponsored by the Fulbright organization. He is a student of Ken Baclawski.