Riccardo Zaffalon

I'm a frontend developer with 8+ years experience, specialized in building fast, reliable, and human-centered web interfaces.
I value simplicity and inclusivity.

Based in Treviso (Italy), since the beginning of 2018 I have been at alpenite, where I work as a Senior Consultant on web projects. Here I have had the opportunity to lead the frontend development of ecommerce websites for several fashion brands, including Bulgari, Fendi, Stella McCartney, Liu Jo, Pinko, Tezenis, Intimissimi, and more.

Besides these projects, my main focuses are introducing new helpful technologies to streamline my team’s work, and mentoring junior colleagues, to help them grow and bring increasingly more value to the company.

Previously, I have lived in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, and worked as a freelancer for clients in Italy and Canada, providing digital solutions for small business owners and professionals since 2016.


Proficient in

  • HTML, CSS, and their most popular preprocessors (e.g. Pug, SCSS),
  • JavaScript (including ES6 and beyond),
  • Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Certified B2C Commerce Developer),
  • git.

Experienced in

  • React,
  • webpack, vite,
  • design tools such as Figma and Sketch.

Currently focusing on learning

  • The React ecosystem, with tools such as Next.js,
  • TypeScript, Dart,
  • Svelte, Astro, and Tailwind.

Bookshelves

Currently I'm reading

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Fellowship of the Ring

Middle Earth #1
by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Making of a Manager

The Making of a Manager

What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
by Julie Zhuo

Lately I enjoyed

No Rules Rules

No Rules Rules

Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
Old Man's War

Old Man's War

by John Scalzi
Notes from Underground

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky