Paolo Bernasconi is an engineering leader and operator with 12 years of experience building product-focused infrastructure and consumer-facing integrations from startup to scale in San Francisco. He co-founded and served as CTO of TruckSmarter, transitioned into product and engineering roles at Plaid where he contributed to mobile and web Link integrations and client SDKs, and now leads Engineering & Operations at Column. Paolo spans front-end, back-end, and DevOps work—shipping React and mobile webview integrations, maintaining SDKs in Python and Ruby, and configuring CI/CD for reliable releases. His background in economics and computer science informs a pragmatic approach to product tradeoffs and test-driven quality, and he brings founder-level ownership to operationalizing developer workflows. Notably, his open-source contributions include practical Plaid client work and Cordova/Angular plugin maintenance, reflecting a pattern of improving developer experiences across platforms.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
International School of Geneva
Bachelor's Degree Economics Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Economics Computer Science at Middlebury College
OBSOLETE: Please move to Ionic Native https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-native
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:6 releases, 723 commits, 96 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Paolo contributed to the ng-cordova project by implementing and modifying various Cordova plugins for the AngularJS framework. Their work included adding network, device, and barcode plugins, as well as fixing issues in existing notification and network plugins. The user also refactored the code by removing the dependency of $rootscope.$apply.
Contributions:67 commits, 56 PRs, 103 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Paolo primarily contributed to the development of the `react-plaid-link` component, focusing on its functionality and integration within a React environment. Their work includes the initial implementation of the component, fixing propTypes, and updating the codebase to the latest version. They also updated the component to use a usePlaidLink hook for managing the Plaid Link creation. The user also added examples to the project.
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