Riccardo Forina
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolRiccardo Forina is a Principal Software Engineer based in Milan with 13 years of experience specializing in frontend engineering, React, and UI testing practices. At Red Hat he blends hands-on UI development with system-level troubleshooting—comfortable turning a Chrome DevTools curl into actionable debugging and even using tcpdump when necessary. His background spans leadership roles from lead frontend developer to senior engineer, delivering polished interfaces and pragmatic tooling across startups and enterprise teams. An active contributor to open-source projects, he has improved Django admin theming and usability, showing attention to both backend compatibility and frontend UX details. Known for bridging developer ergonomics and production reliability, he brings a practical, test-first mindset to complex UI problems.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "Amedeo Avogadro" di TorinoComputer Science, Computer Science at Attended Computer Science - University of Turin
Italian, English
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Github Skills (9)
bootstra10
bootstrap10
python10
django10
html9
css8
github7
visual-studio-code6
vscode-extension6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
django-admin-bootstrapped/django-admin-bootstrapped
Oct 2012 - Feb 2014
A Django admin theme using Twitter Bootstrap. It doesn't need any kind of modification on your side, just add it to the installed apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Riccardo primarily focused on improving the Django admin theme. Their commits addressed bug fixes, specifically correcting URLs in recent actions and loading jQuery locally. They also made enhancements to the UI, like wrapping delete confirmation text in an alert-danger div, and implemented version bumps, including updates related to PyPi. Overall, the user contributed to the refinement and maintenance of the Django admin theme.
django-admin-themeadmindjangoinstalledmodification
redhat-developer/app-services-ui-components
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:11 releases, 332 reviews, 443 commits in 1 year 4 months
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