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# Luca Rossi

Founder of Refactoring, a B2B tech newsletter and podcast focused on engineering leadership, team dynamics, and the craft of building software. Based in Milan, Italy. Luca is a software engineer by training who transitioned into content creation and indie business after years of working in the Italian and European tech industry. He writes weekly for an audience of engineering managers, senior developers, and tech leads, and hosts a podcast featuring conversations with practitioners across the global tech scene.

Outside of work, Luca is an avid cyclist who trains regularly and competes in gran fondos across northern Italy. He plays guitar in his downtime, reads widely across technology, business, and fiction, and shares an apartment in Milan with his girlfriend Giulia. He is building the Laputa app as a personal knowledge management tool to organize his notes, relationships, and projects.

## Notes

- Driven by curiosity and a desire to understand how things work, from distributed systems to team dynamics
- Prefers building over theorizing; ships fast and iterates based on feedback
- Values autonomy and independence; chose the indie path over a traditional career deliberately
- Balances introversion with a genuine interest in people, which comes through in podcast conversations
- Believes strongly that engineering leadership is a craft that can be learned and taught

## Collaborations

- [[24q1-podcast-season-1]] — created and hosted the first season of the Refactoring podcast
- [[24q3-podcast-season-2]] — hosted the second season with expanded guest roster
- [[25q2-podcast-season-3]] — ongoing season with deeper focus on AI and leadership topics
- [[24q1-launch-sponsorship-packages]] — designed and launched the sponsorship program
- [[procedure-weekly-team-sync]] — runs the weekly team sync for Refactoring
