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
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Github Skills (61)
stubbing10
http-mock10
xml10
visual-studio-code-extension9
static-analysis9
json9
http-service9
java9
python9
mock-server9
http9
mocking9
rest9
linter9
wiremock9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
riccardoNovaglia/GitAccountSwitcher
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
riccardoNovaglia/vsCodeBlankLine
Nov 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 3 months
visual-studio-codelinesblankvscodevscode-extension
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