About

Hi. I'm Pablo Murad.

I was born on August 12, 1987, in São Lourenço, a small town in Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil, to Lebanese parents. Today, I’m the CEO and director of Grupo Murad and Portal IDEA, where most of my work comes down to a single idea: making quality education accessible to the people who are usually left out of it.

I've been around computers since 1992 and online since 1995 — back when getting connected meant strange noises and a fair amount of patience. I started programming with Delphi in 1997 and moved to Python in the early 2000s, and I never really stopped. Most of what I build now lives at the intersection of education and the open web: online courses, independent infrastructure, self-hosted services, feeds, and small communities.

My academic background is in Law, with a postgraduate degree in Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Practice — both from José do Rosário Vellano University, in Alfenas, Minas Gerais. Along the way I've taken further courses, including programs at the Berlin School of Business and Innovation.

I lived in Moscow for a year and have travelled and backpacked through different parts of the world — gathering stories, making my share of mistakes, and learning to handle bureaucracy with something close to grace.

I admire people with a living sense of humour and a real commitment to social causes. I still believe most of us are rough stones worth polishing, even on the days we look a lot more like gravel. I read voraciously, love cinema — horror above all — and I have a deliberate preference for things made by people, with care, over things produced at scale.

Thanks for stopping by. It's good to meet you.