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Luca Rossi

Founder & Writer at Refactoring
Rome, Italy
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linkedin.com/in/lucaronin
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refactoring.fm
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luca@refactoring.club
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+39 3297450408
Entrepreneur, CTO, and writer. Led tech teams to create web products that have been used by tens of millions of people. These days I write about my experience to 120K+ tech leaders on refactoring.fm
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Work Experience

Refactoring

Founder & Writer
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Sep 2020 - Current

Refactoring is one of the largest newsletters and communities in the world around engineering management and tech leadership, with 120K+ subscribers.

  • Wrote 200+ original articles about management and tech leadership challenges.
  • Grew the newsletter from 0 to 120K subscribers in 4 years, and revenue from 0 to $30K+ MRR.

Translated

Head of Engineering
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Sep 2020 - Nov 2021

Translated is one of the largest and most influential translation companies in the world, working with cutting edge AI to empower professional translators to do a better job.

  • Grew department revenues by 20% by scoping, planning and executing the development of a new internal tool to handle the whole account management workflow.
  • Led product and tech strategy for Matecat, Translated’s flagship CAT tool, used by 10K+ professionals. Led surveys, interviews, and aligned 20+ internal stakeholders on the final roadmap.
  • Overseen the restructuring of several product teams into more effective and autonomous units, and led 10 direct reports.
  • Tech used: React, Node.js, PHP, MySQL

Wanderio

Co-Founder & CTO
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Feb 2012 - Aug 2020

Wanderio was one of the largest online travel agencies in Italy, serving 25M+ customers between 2014 and 2020.

  • As a co-founder, led the team to raise $4M+, scaled it to ~25 people, and sold the company to a larger incumbent in the travel space.
  • Led technology from 0 to 25M+ customers, from writing all the code, to overseeing multiple independent product teams and the long term tech strategy.
  • Tech used: Ruby on Rails, Redis, MongoDB, AWS, React, React Native

Education

Università degli Studi Roma Tre

M.Sc in Computer Engineering
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Sep 2006 - Sep 2011

Skills

  • Writing
  • Startups
  • Public Speaking
  • Engineering Management
  • Product Management
  • Tech Leadership