Portrait of Jorge Palanca

Jorge Palanca

I help build mobile and console apps - from VOD to games like Candy Crush. Big fan of coding, self-hosting automated services with Docker in my private server, and music production. Shipping small personal apps. Lived in a few countries along the way, including working in Tokyo. Based in Spain.

Active projects

Netflix Button Remapper — Shield remote button remapper for Android TV
(Kotlin + Jetpack Compose, Gradle Kotlin DSL, minSdk 23). Privacy policy.

Experience

King (Xbox Game Studios / Microsoft) Barcelona, Spain

Helping small teams run big mobile games like Candy Crash - personalisation, engagement and monetisation.

mytheresa.com Barcelona, Spain

New CMS platform (Kotlin + Vue.js) and in-house migration across remote teams. Part of the team through the NYSE IPO.

Rakuten Games Tokyo, Japan

Viber chatbot launch (+3M users) and an HTML5 games platform with 1st, 2nd and 3rd party partners.

Rakuten Japan (楽天) Tokyo, Japan

Support global subsidiaries (Rakuten TV Spain branch, Viber, Viki, Kobo) with product analysis across markets.

Wuaki.tv / Rakuten TV Barcelona, Spain

Developed multi-device video-on-demand across phone, tablet, TV, console and cast, including a launch partnership with Google for Chromecast integration; native app rewrite; beta community.

Press: elEconomista, Applesfera and PR Noticias.

Mediaset Madrid, Spain

Co-launched licensed-TV games with external vendors: Callejeros Viajeros, El Cubo, Pasapalabra, La Voz, Tadeo Jones, La Que Se Avecina and Viajes Cuatro.

Awards

Best Mobile App — Wuaki.tv, El Mundo Ariadna awards 2014 (El Mundo).

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