Summary
Tiago Loureiro is a founder and seasoned Android engineer with nine years of experience building consumer and IoT products from Brazil’s Minas Gerais. He helped ship Beeper and Beeper Mini (YC S21) and later contributed to the Beeper team at Automattic, focusing on best-in-class chat experiences. As founder of Bluelux he led hardware-software integrations for smart home products (including the first Brazilian Google Assistant smart home integration) and maintained apps with 100k+ downloads. Today he runs MuchBetterApps, shipping AI-native productivity apps like Banger (an inbox for builders) and Snappile, blending product intuition with hands-on engineering. Comfortable across embedded firmware, cloud backends and modern Android stacks (Kotlin, Compose, coroutines), he pairs deep technical ownership with a founder’s product sensibility. An inventor at heart, he repeatedly turns hardware complexity into delightful mobile UX and scalable services.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese, Spanish