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Beto Moreira

Beto Moreira

Hi, I'm Beto! I'm a Brazilian-Australian Software Engineer currently building an Applied AI lab inside Good Pair Days, the $40M+ ARR company I previously co-founded.

Before that, I was a Lead Engineer in the API team at Leonardo.ai when Canva acquired us in 2024 for ~$250M.

Alongside work, I’m doing a master’s in computer science at Georgia Tech, focusing on AI and robotics.

And when I have a chance, I like to tinker with open-source and side projects. My latest is Miletus, a personal AI agent with one focus: Keep you learning the things you said you wanted to learn.

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Back in my teenage years, I used to hang out with a group of talented friends who shared a passion for tech culture, music, sports and a desire to explore the world. We grew up in Maranhao, one of the poorest states of Brazil, and struggled to accept the level of corruption, violence and lack of investment in education.

Not surprisingly, most of us ended up building careers overseas, at companies like Canva, Microsoft, Booking, The New York Times, CrazyDomains, etc...

After doing my last year of High School in Indiana (USA), I attended university back in Brazil, where I got a Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems as the top performer in my class. While studying, I was also working on the side as a software developer for a few local companies and even hustled my way to a short traineeship at the University of Bristol (UK).

I'd always dreamed of living in Australia, so while still in Uni in Brazil, I applied remotely to hundreds of jobs there. When I was 21, I got a job offer and visa sponsorship from a large Internet company in Perth (AU).

I later lived for five years in what I consider one of the best cities in the world, Sydney (AU), where you get the best of both worlds, business and nature. In 2020, right before the COVID lockdowns, I relocated to the Gold Coast (AU), a smaller and fantastic surf town still close to major business areas.

You'll usually find me having a ton of fun with my wife and two kids, hanging out at the beach, cafes, and BBQ gatherings with friends. Or there's a chance you'll catch me reading a good book or surfing.

Companies and other things I built

  1. Good Pair Days

    ML-powered wine club with 100k members

    Co-founded an ML-powered wine subscription startup in Sydney and, as CTO, built the software behind the site, app, recommendation engine and warehouse systems. Today I run GPD Labs, its applied-AI lab.

  2. Leonardo.ai

    Generative AI platform acquired by Canva

    Lead Engineer in the API team, helping scale the platform to 19M+ users and 1B+ images.

  3. Miletus
    Side project

    Personal AI agent for deeper learning

    A personal AI agent that maps what you know, finds gaps in your understanding, and guides you through learning quests shaped around your interests.

  4. World in Timelines
    Side project

    Humanity's progress through timelines

    A collection of simple timelines exploring the milestones of science, technology, history and culture, bringing the world's key timelines together in one place.

  5. Preseason.ai
    Side project

    LLM devtool benchmarks

    A benchmarking platform that tracks which software tools AI models recommend, using frozen seasonal benchmarks so rankings stay reproducible and auditable over time.

  6. Widen.dev
    Side project

    Open-source macOS Postgres GUI with text-to-sql

    A free, native macOS Postgres client that introspects your schema, drafts SQL with Apple's on-device Foundation Model, and only runs what you approve.

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