Riccardo Erra
Developer Advocate
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRiccardo Erra is a Developer Advocate at Figma with over a decade of hands-on experience building and evangelising design systems, front-end architectures, and accessible UI components. He combines deep practical skills in CSS systems (BEM, Atomic Design, CSS Modules), React/TypeScript, Styled Components and Storybook with a strong background in performance and accessibility initiatives. Previously he scaled and mentored teams at Mews and Bulb, led design-system work for public services at Hackney Council, and drove cross-team tooling efforts like a Style Dictionary-based token pipeline. A habitual experimenter, he keeps work public on GitHub and has been featured on CodePen, reflecting a developer-first approach to advocacy. Based in London, he pairs a designer’s eye (Photoshop, Figma) with backend familiarity (Node, Python, Django), making him effective at bridging product, design and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Economy of Institutions and Financial Markets, Bachelor's Degree Economy of Institutions and Financial Markets at University of Tor Vergata, RomeDiploma Scientific subjects, Diploma Scientific subjects at Liceo Malpighi, Rome
Italian, English
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Github Skills (82)
bash10
redux-thunk10
oh-my-zsh10
flutter-plugin10
shell10
cli10
opentype10
fonts10
rvm10
truffleruby10
woff10
zsh10
google-fonts10
styles10
docker10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
riccardoerra/personal-website
Dec 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 17 branches in 8 years 1 month
riccardoerra/octobar
Sep 2017 - Feb 2020
octobar
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 2 years 5 months
javascript
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