Builder Profile: Pietro Schirano

Builder Profile: Pietro Schirano | Replit Builder Profile: Pietro Schirano Mon, Apr 1, 2024 Updated at: Fri, Apr 25, 2025 Pietro Schirano is the co-founder of EverArt. By pursuing his ideas on Replit, he’s been able to nurture a curiosity in AI into a startup with multiple apps and functions, run on Replit. After starting his career in civil engineering, Pietro wanted to explore more creative endeavors. This journey would lead him to hold design lead roles across household names like OpenTable, Meta, Uber, and Brex, and eventually, to launch his own startup. An avid social learner, Pietro picked up skills across marketing, business, and engineering in each of his jobs. One topic that particularly grabbed his attention was AI. After ChatGPT launched, Pietro says, “I had an epiphany that the world was never going to be the same.” Immediately, he started to test emerging AI tools, eventually sharing a prototype with his team at Brex that landed him a role as their AI team lead. > “Replit was the easiest A to B to get people experimenting with whatever product I wanted to test.” Pietro continued experimenting with AI to build projects on Replit and shared those projects on Twitter. And as his ability and skills in the AI space grew, so did his audience. You can follow his journey on Twitter, from his initial discovery of Replit, to building a personal website and game of Pong using Replit's AI game builder tool. The ability to share both the working demo and backend code for his work meant that his online community could chime in with help and feedback. > “It’s so much easier to get people to try your stuff with Replit.” A demo of Pietro's project, Zing His post about a GPT-generated game of Pong has received 6 million views since it was posted, and Zing, a fun Bing alternative he built and hosted on Replit, had 50k users within a week. For every project he shares, Pietro has a panel of users to test everything from his projects' stability to their design