Bernardo De Pádua
Chairman at Pharoi
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolBernardo De Pádua is an entrepreneur and technologist with 18 years of experience building and scaling education marketplaces and product-led startups from Brazil. As founder and long-time CEO of Quero Educação (YC S16, YC Growth S18) he grew the company from a shoestring launch to a 700+ person organization and steered it through pivot, break-even and rapid expansion. A computer engineer (ITA, M.Sc.) who taught object-oriented programming using Ruby, he remains a hands-on coder with Ruby as his language of choice since 2006 and a track record of shipping practical web tooling dating back to a popular Google Summer of Code jQuery plugin. Now serving as Chairman of Quero and founder of a stealth venture, he combines product, engineering and fundraising experience with deep operational grit. Influenced by Paul Graham, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, he pairs high-level vision with a bias for shipping and learning quickly from users. Notably, his career shows a consistent ability to pivot products to sustainable business models in slow-to-change institutional markets like higher education.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
YC Growth Program Spring 18, YC Growth Program Spring 18 at Y CombinatorMaster Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (21)
cldr9
locale9
spree8
gulp8
rails-i18n8
rails7
ruby-on-rails7
bootswatch6
sorting6
yaml6
internationalization6
ruby6
bootstrap6
sass5
css5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zephyr-dev/i18n_yaml_sorter
Mar 2010 - Nov 2011
Contributions:18 commits in 1 year 8 months
bernardo/auto_complete_fu
May 2008 - Apr 2010
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year 11 months
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