Riccardo Novaglia
Staff Engineer at Kraken
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRiccardo Novaglia is a Staff Engineer based in London with a decade of experience building backend and platform systems across finance, media, and consulting firms. He progressed from early roles at Siemens and Sky to platform engineering at The Telegraph, technical leadership at ThoughtWorks, and has led engineering teams at Kraken since 2022. Comfortable across Java, Scala, JavaScript, and Python, he focuses on delivering reliable, scalable systems while mentoring engineers and improving delivery practices. Known for enthusiasm and continuous learning, he treats every project as an opportunity to adopt better patterns and tooling. A University of London computer science graduate who relocated to the UK to pursue tech, he blends practical hands-on coding with strategic architectural thinking.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science with Year in Industry, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science with Year in Industry at Royal Holloway, University of London
English, Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (73)
http-api10
wiremock10
mock-server10
stubbing10
http-mock10
mocking10
xml10
static-analysis9
rest9
rust9
visual-studio-code-extension9
python9
linter9
stylelint9
static-code-analysis9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
riccardoNovaglia/dotfiles
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
riccardoNovaglia/stub4
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
A programmable JavaScript http mock server, with a React frontend
Contributions:294 commits, 5 PRs, 102 pushes in 1 year 4 months
reactmock-serverstub-serverreact-frontendjavascript
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