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Marcello De Bernardi

Founder

Founder & CTO at Plexe

London, England, United Kingdom

FoundedPlexe · YC

About

Marcello De Bernardi is founder and CTO of Plexe, which provides infrastructure for deploying machine learning models to production.

Founder & CTO at PlexeYC X25

Intro paths

YC

Marcello went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Plexe's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Marcello can intro founders to Plexe's investors below.

Plexe's investors · 6

MyAsiaVCSeattleOxonian VenturesPalo AltoSterling RoadSan Francisco · $50K – $150K checksStrategxy Ventures LLCBeverly Hills · $1M – $5M checksTranspose Platform ManagementHoustonY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Plexe

VDVaibhav Dubey
Vaibhav DubeyFounder & CEO

Experience

  1. Plexe AICo-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — presentLondon, United Kingdon
  2. Expedia GroupMachine Learning Engineer III2024 — 2025London, United Kingdom
  3. Expedia GroupManager, Machine Learning Engineering2022 — 2024London, United Kingdom
  4. Expedia GroupMachine Learning Scientist III2021 — 2022London, United Kingdom
  5. Amazon Web Services (AWS)Staff Consultant (Data Science)2021London, United Kingdom
  6. Amazon Web Services (AWS)Associate Consultant (Data Science)2020 — 2021London, United Kingdom
  7. Amazon Web Services (AWS)Professional Services Graduate (Data Science)2019 — 2020London, United Kingdom
  8. Queen Mary University of LondonTechnical Assistant (Software Development)2018Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  9. Queen Mary University of LondonStudent Demonstrator (Software Engineering)2017Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  10. Queen Mary University of LondonTechnical Assistant (Software Development and Testing)2017Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  11. Queen Mary University of LondonStudent Organizer for PASS (Electronic Engineering and Computer Science)2016 — 2017Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Skills & more

Amazon Web Services (AWS)14Python13AWS SageMakerAWS Lambda1AWS CloudFormation1PyTorchTensorFlowJava15JavaScriptDocker1Node.jsJenkins
+12 moreGitHTMLIntelliJ IDEAMicrosoft OfficeLaTeXPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingDeep LearningData ScienceSolution Architecture

Languages English · Finnish · Italian

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Marcello De Bernardi?
Marcello De Bernardi is founder and CTO of Plexe, which provides infrastructure for deploying machine learning models to production.
Where does Marcello De Bernardi work?
Marcello De Bernardi is Founder & CTO of Plexe.
What companies did Marcello De Bernardi found?
Marcello De Bernardi founded Plexe.
Where did Marcello De Bernardi go to school?
Marcello De Bernardi studied at University of Oxford (Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science); Y Combinator (Co-founder @ Plexe AI (X25)); Queen Mary University of London (Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons), Computer Science).

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