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aliases: ["Roberto Rossi"]
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Tier: "1st 🥇"
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# Roberto Rossi

Luca's father, a retired mechanical engineer living near Lake Como with Maria. Roberto spent his career working at engineering firms in the Lombardy industrial district, designing mechanical components for manufacturing equipment. Now retired, he has thrown himself into woodworking with the same precision and methodical approach he brought to engineering. His workshop in the garage is immaculate, and he produces beautiful handmade furniture and small wooden objects that he gives as gifts to family and friends.

Roberto is a quiet, steady presence in the Rossi family. He is proud of both his children but expresses it through actions rather than words: fixing things around Luca's apartment when he visits Milan, building a custom bookshelf for Elena's apartment in Rome, ensuring the family home is always in perfect order. He understands Luca's engineering mindset better than Maria does and occasionally asks thoughtful questions about the business side of Refactoring.

## Notes

- The source of Luca's engineering discipline; Roberto's approach to problem-solving clearly shaped how Luca thinks about software
- His woodworking has become genuinely impressive; the bookshelves he built for Luca's apartment are a favorite conversation piece
- Dry, understated humor that Luca has inherited; they can communicate entire sentiments with a look or a half-sentence
- Enjoys cycling casually and sometimes joins Luca for easy rides along the lake when Luca visits
- Reads the Refactoring newsletter, though he admits most of the software-specific content is beyond him; still, he reads every issue

## Collaborations

- [[event-dinner-family]] — central figure at family gatherings at the Lake Como home
