Riccardo Forina is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, specializing in frontend architecture, migration strategy and AI-assisted development. He has been building production web applications since 2002 and joined Red Hat in 2018.
His work focuses on the intersection of engineering governance and developer productivity: systems where explicit rules, mechanical enforcement and shared infrastructure to eliminate the correction cycles that slow teams down.
Learn how Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console uses a single data layer to serve the access management interface at runtime, Storybook mocks during development, and a standalone CLI that seeds and cleanses real test environments.
Learn how we replaced an entire React application while keeping the original version running in production. Discover the key architectural decisions that ensured success.
Discover how Red Hat optimized for human maintainability and significantly increased AI-assisted productivity by formalizing architectural constraints into machine-readable rules, custom lint rules, and deep documentation. Learn about the three layers they built and the impact on development.
