About

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

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

I'm usually tinkering with open-source. More recently, I built Preseason.ai for LLM devtool benchmarks and Widen.dev, a native macOS Postgres GUI that uses the LLM already on your Mac.

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.