Riccardo Cocetta
Vice President Of Engineering at Primary Venture Partners
Antibes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolRiccardo Cocetta is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on software and web engineering experience, now serving as Vice President of Engineering focused on architecture, data, and quality at Okta/Auth0. He has scaled identity and emerging AI products through roles from engineer to senior director, combining deep front-end and back-end expertise with product-driven execution. Known as a mentor and advisor, he also consults for early-stage ventures at Primary Venture Partners, bringing operational rigor to startups. His career blends startups and large organizations (Auth0, Yahoo!, IBM) and a history of shipping real-time web and IoT projects, from Node.js APIs to Polymer and Electron apps. Riccardo’s background in building developer-friendly tooling and CI/CD pipelines reflects a pragmatic commitment to engineering excellence and measurable quality. Based in Antibes, he pairs technical curiosity with people-first leadership and a knack for translating complex systems into scalable, testable products.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at ITIS L.Trafelli NettunoMaster, Software Engineering, Master, Software Engineering at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (38)
coffeescript10
auth10
langchain9
chatgpt9
llm9
python9
typescript9
ai9
generative-ai9
gemini9
openai9
anthropic9
pydantic8
browser-console8
open-source8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rcocetta/kano-draw
Aug 2015 - Apr 2019
App to learn programming using a basic CoffeeScript drawing API
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years 7 months
apijavascriptdrawinglearn-programming
KanoComputing/make-art
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016
App to learn programming using a basic CoffeeScript drawing API
Contributions:306 commits, 183 PRs, 155 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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