Jorge Blanco
Email:mail@jorgeblan.co Phone:415-216-9981 Portfolio: jorgeblan.co
| Summary | Experienced Software Engineer focused on enabling delightful VR UX and integrating work from Design, Product and Engineering into engaging immersive experiences. |
| Skills & Abilities | Proficient in VR and game prototyping with numerous prototypes tested and iterated on. Adept in solid engineering best practices for efficient and maintainable software. Able to identify, plan, communicate and execute the minimal amount of work required to deliver a complete prototype, first playable, vertical slice or milestone. Experienced in building locomotion solutions, hand presence and real world affordances in VR |
| Relevant Experience | Gameplay Engineer (VR, Prototyper), Indie July 2019 – Present (Video reel) Developed a physics based puzzle shooter first-playable, full locomotion; two escape room first-playables, grabbable object interaction puzzles, teleportation; a First Person Shooter vertical slice; a tower defense prototype; and a handful of other prototypes. Engineering Manager at Yelp Inc in San Francisco, CA January 2018 – Present Led the development of Yelp’s experimentation, A/B testing, and feature rollout platform with a team of 10+ engineers.Managed the transition from a legacy A/B testing system for web to a multi-platform change control and experimentation system with integrated analytics and automatically calculated metrics over billions of data points and terabytes of data every day. Software Engineer at Yelp Inc in San Francisco, CA September 2014 – January 2018 2017-2018: Integrated an experimentation system with a distributed logging pipeline. Metadata attached to the events allowed for automatic experiment analysis over billions of data points. 2016: Built a web UI and continuous integration service for experiment control with 3 other talented engineers. This powered the growth of experimentation inside Yelp from ~10 to 300+ experiments per month and gave access to experimentation tools to 5X more engineers. 2014-2016: Ran dozens of SEO experiments which drove millions of new visitors to the Yelp website. Global Solutions Engineer at Synactive Inc in Foster City, CA March 2014 – August 2014 Built made-to-order Enterprise Resource Planning solutions for clients in the US and Japan. Led the creation of training programs for our Japanese clients. |
| Education | International Master in Management of Information Technology at Tilburg University in Tilburg, Netherlands September 2011 – May 2013 Joint international master course with the Tilburg University (Netherlands), Turku University (Finland) and IAE-Aix Paul Cezanne University (France) through the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science at Kyushu Institute of Technology in Fukuoka, Japan April 2007 – March 2011 Computer Science degree with a concentration on Artificial Intelligence through the MEXT scholarship. |
| Other Accomplishments | 300+ hours in VR over dozens of published and unpublished VR applications Regular participant and attendee of the VR/AR meetups and conferences in the SF Bay Area Wrote a book and published a magazine on productivity for 3+ years |