# Jorge Blanco

> ★ Software Engineer ★ Virtual Reality ★ Game Development ★ Leadership ★

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jorgeblanco

✔Deep understanding of Agile development processes. Scrum master experience.
✔Managed multi-year projects and decades-worth of backlogs and roadmaps with Jira, Asana, Smartsheet and Trello
✔Handled effective communications with key stakeholders including VPs, Directors and Lead Product Managers across several teams and organizations
✔Grew a team of 10+ junior and senior engineers through hiring, coaching and performance management

## Work Experience
### Senior Technical Program Manager @ Yelp
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Developed and rolled out project management infrastructure, processes and best practices for a 1000+ engineering organization

### Technical Program Manager @ Yelp
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Developed an in-house marketing platform to centralize segmentation, copy and assets, and facilitate data sharing for cross-channel marketing

### Engineering Manager @ Yelp
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California

### Software Engineer @ Yelp
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Gameplay Engineer (VR) @ Indie
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Developing Last Outta Dustin, an action-adventure survival VR game with heart-pounding combat and structure building elements.

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

### Editor-in-Chief @ Productivity Boost Magazine @ New Life Creation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018
Productivity Boost is a magazine that focuses on publishing articles from renowned authors which help you focus on the few things that get you the results you really want. Concise, practical and with a beautiful design.

### Solution Engineer @ GuiXT @ Synactive, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | foster city, california

### Digital Accelerator Intern @ Philips IT @ Philips
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
In charge of designing the framework needed to create coordinated road maps for product and service development.

### System Administrator (IT) @ Institute of Ophthalmology (IOP)
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
* Patient database creation and management
* Reporting (Monthly, Yearly)
* Media publishing (presentations, promos, memos, leaflets, photos, certificates & awards)
* Data and system back-up


## Education
### Master of Science (MSc) in Information Management
Tilburg University

### Master of Science (MSc) in Economics in IT Management
Turun yliopisto - University of Turku

### Master of Science (MSc) in Business Administration in IT Management
Université Paul-Cézanne Aix Marseille III (IAE)

### Master of Science (MSc) in Economics in Business Administration
The University of Osaka

### Barchelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Kyushu Institute of Technology

### Bicultural Baccalaureate
Tecnológico de Monterrey


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jorgeblan-co
- Portfolio: http://jorgeblan.co

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Last updated: 2026-04-10