Riccardo Porrini
Senior Engineering Manager at Canva
Milan, Lombardy, Austria
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Top SchoolRiccardo Porrini is a Senior Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience leading and mentoring software teams across product and AI-focused companies, currently at Canva and Kaleido AI. He blends hands-on technical leadership with a strong background in data management from a PhD in Computer Science, enabling him to bridge research-grade thinking and production delivery. Known in the Italian Agile community as a regular speaker, he champions practices like TDD, pair programming and continuous delivery to improve team craftsmanship. His early career building large-scale integration and search systems for e-commerce honed his skills in scalable back-end architectures and cross-team collaboration. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic leader who still enjoys “ghost-busting” tricky technical problems himself.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 93/110, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 93/110 at Università degli Studi di Milano-BicoccaHigh School Degree, 78/100, High School Degree, 78/100 at Liceo Scientifico di Luino
Italian, English
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Github Skills (24)
summarization6
linked-data5
abstraction5
statistics5
ckeditor4
two-way4
launcher4
bind4
cli3
angular3
text-editing3
rte3
editors3
typescript3
migration2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
siti-disco-unimib/abstat
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:68 PRs, 199 pushes, 79 branches in 7 months
statisticslinked-datadata-summarizationsummarizationabstraction
rporrini/facet-annotation
Nov 2013 - Nov 2020
Contributions:860 commits, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years
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