Riccardo Canella
Engineering Team Lead at Hirematic
Chiasso, Ticino, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRiccardo Canella is an engineering team lead with 13 years of hands-on experience building and scaling front-end and full-stack JavaScript applications across Europe. He has driven frontend modernization, design systems and performance at high-traffic businesses like lastminute.com and Jobtome, and now leads cross-functional engineering and architecture at Hirematic. Equally comfortable in React, Next.js, Node.js and serverless workflows, he combines strategic technical planning with active coding and rigorous code review to keep teams shipping. A longtime self-taught developer who started with HTML/CSS from W3Schools, Riccardo also writes accessible technical tutorials to help junior engineers bridge theory and practice. Based in Ticino, he brings a practical DevOps mindset—having built CI/CD tooling and private NPM packages—to improve developer experience and runtime reliability. Outside work he’s a basketball and cycling enthusiast who channels that team-focused energy into mentoring and culture building.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Humanities, Diploma Humanities at Elis Collegelaurea ingegneria informatica, laurea ingegneria informatica at Università Internazionale telematica Uninettuno
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
200reputation
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Github Skills (144)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
javascript10
html10
angular10
typescript10
vue10
svelte10
documentation10
react-native10
vite10
web-components10
user-tracking10
webpack10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thecreazy/FYGS
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:232 commits in 1 month
thecreazy/siteaudit
Oct 2018 - Jun 2021
Site audit for your site from terminal
Contributions:1 release, 63 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 8 months
auditsecuritysite-auditterminal
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