Riccardo Cocetta
Senior Director Of Engineering at Okta
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
15 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 (21)
authentication10
drawing10
api10
javascript9
browser-console8
dom7
flowtype7
cli6
endpoints6
react5
testing4
mock-server4
mocking4
sdk3
console3
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
apijavascriptdrawinglearn-programming
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