Gonçalo Antunes
Founding AI Engineer at Reach AI
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolGonçalo Antunes is a Founding AI Engineer and seasoned backend systems architect with nine years of experience building distributed platforms and infrastructure from the ground up. He has repeatedly taken technical leadership roles at startups—most recently founding Reach AI to automate SEO and AI search optimization, and earlier shaping Rely.io’s core backend as a founding engineer. His work blends deep systems thinking with practical product focus, shipping scalable backend features and integrations that drive measurable traffic and developer experience. An early co-founder and chief architect at an AI studio, he knows how to turn AI opportunities into customer-facing products and recurring growth channels. He also contributes to community projects, notably back-end features for the popular PokemonGo-Bot, showing a pragmatic interest in playful, real-world automation. Based in Lisbon with a Computer Science degree from Instituto Superior Técnico, he combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on engineering across infrastructure, APIs, and AI-driven systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
apim10
automation10
automations10
api10
python10
configuration-file9
configurations9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PokemonGoF/PokemonGo-Bot
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
The Pokemon Go Bot, baking with community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:87 commits, 36 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gonçalo primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Pokemon Go bot. Their work focused on implementing new features, such as displaying the Pokemon bag at bot startup and showing the player's location in live stats. They also made improvements to existing features, including the addition of configurable options for the live inventory display and the incubation of eggs, including their type.
pythonpokemongofdiscordbotdiscord-bot
DeXtroTip/PokemonGo-Bot
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:143 pushes, 62 branches in 1 year 8 months
golangdiscordbakingbotdiscord-bot
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