Simone Riva — Senior Frontend Engineer

Senior frontend engineer with over eight years building and shipping production web applications, from the interface down to the database. Based between Ireland and Italy, I am open to fully remote roles across Europe and have full EU work authorisation. I have over eight years of experience building production web applications, leading frontend architecture and delivering React, TypeScript and Next.js products. My work spans micro-frontends, shared design systems, accessibility, performance and LLM workflows in live products. My full-stack background includes REST APIs, C#/.NET, Node.js and relational databases.

Experience

• Senior Frontend Engineer — Harley & Dikkinson (Mar 2025 — present, remote, Italy): led frontend architecture and rollout of approximately 30 major micro-frontends plus smaller component remotes; published assets through Google Cloud CDN; established shared design-system components and conventions; ships React, TypeScript and Next.js features over C#/.NET and Node.js services; reviews every application for accessibility; integrates LLM workflows and builds Claude harnesses, RAG workflows and custom skills to automate repetitive engineering work.
• Frontend Developer — FF3D.COM srl (May 2018 — May 2025, Italy): client applications with Angular, AngularJS, JavaScript, C#/.NET and SQL Server; REST APIs, relational data modelling, client collaboration from requirements to release, performance and UX improvements.

Key skills

• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• React
• Next.js
• Angular
• Vue
• Three.js / React Three Fiber
• Vite
• TanStack (Router/Query/Table)
• Zustand
• Tailwind CSS
• Responsive and accessible UI
• Micro-frontends & Module Federation
• Design systems & component libraries
• Performance optimisation
• C#
• .NET
• Node.js
• REST APIs
• SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
• LLM integrations in production
• Claude
• Custom AI harnesses
• RAG
• Custom skills and agentic workflows
• Git
• Docker
• CI/CD
• Agile/Scrum
• Currently developing: Python (pandas, NumPy), analytical SQL, statistical inference, scikit-learn, FastAPI; preparing for AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional

Selected work

• Micro-frontend platform (Harley & Dikkinson) — led architecture and rollout of approximately 30 major micro-frontends plus smaller component remotes; shared design-system components and assets distributed through Google Cloud CDN. Proprietary code.
• AI-powered operations dashboards (Harley & Dikkinson) — data-intensive interfaces for construction and energy efficiency on C#/.NET and Node microservices (PostgreSQL, SQL Server), with LLM-assisted flows. Proprietary code.
• This portfolio — a portfolio disguised as a playable game menu (React, Three.js / R3F, GSAP).
• SimoneOS — a fake desktop OS as the portfolio shell, with a window manager built from scratch.
• Snapkit — screenshot tool that finds secrets with local OCR and blurs them before you share (Electron, TypeScript).
• MDM — Rust download manager: 8 parallel HTTP Range connections, byte-exact resume, If-Range integrity checks.
• Accessibility Auditor — 26 WCAG 2.2 checks with deterministic contrast maths (Next.js, TypeScript).
• Microcopy Generator — A/B landing copy with UX rationale and a nine-theme style study (Next.js, Groq).
• Keywriter — typing game over 30 real Italian rail lines and 454 stations.
• Motor insurance risk model (in progress) — frequency–severity model on the freMTPL dataset: Poisson GLM benchmarked against a gradient-boosting challenger, judged on lift and calibration, served behind a containerised FastAPI endpoint.

Education

• Diploma in Computer Science (Perito Informatico) — IIS Badoni, Lecco, Italy, awarded 2014.
• Telecommunications Engineering — Politecnico di Milano, 2014 — 2018, coursework completed; degree not completed. Quantitative coursework included calculus, linear algebra, probability and statistics.
• AI engineering study in progress: LLM application design, RAG and agentic workflows; Python (pandas, NumPy), analytical SQL, statistical inference, scikit-learn and FastAPI. Preparing for AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional.

Details

• Availability: open to fully remote roles across Europe.
• Work mode: remote; based between Ireland and Italy.
• Right to work: full EU work authorisation.
• Based between Ireland and Italy.
• Languages: Italian (native), English (full professional proficiency), Japanese (limited working proficiency — JLPT N3).

Contact

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