I'm Paolo, a founder, operator and engineer. I'm exploring what to build next.

Most recently, I led the new community banking platform at Column, where I built a community banking core and led our first acquisition.

Before that, I co-founded TruckSmarter and was its CTO. We raised from Founders Fund, a16z, Thrive and BCV, and TruckSmarter was acquired in 2026.

I started my career at Plaid as one of its first 15 employees, first as an engineer and then as a product manager. I built core products like Plaid Link, the Dashboard and the Docs.

I was born in Switzerland 🇨🇭 and moved to San Francisco 🌉 about 15 years ago. Outside of work, I spend my winters climbing mountains, and I'm slowly working my way up every Swiss 4,000m peak.

You can reach me via X, LinkedIn, GitHub or paolo.enrico.bernasconi@gmail.com.