Javier Rico
KRAFTON Creator Network - Operations Specialist
Long Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJavier Rico is a community and social media strategist with nine years of experience building engaged audiences for major game studios and entertainment brands, currently driving creator operations at KRAFTON. He combines hands-on content production and live-stream expertise with program management—having built and led community teams at Bandai Namco and Skybound and developed community plans for unannounced game titles at Bad Robot Games. Fluent in Spanish and conversational in Brazilian Portuguese, he leverages multicultural insight to localize influencer and creator programs across regions. Javier blends creative direction (founder of Ciao Panda Productions) with technical tooling knowledge—from OBS live streams to Sprinklr, JIRA, and Airtable—enabling smooth cross-functional execution between dev, marketing, and creator partners. Notably, he pairs a marketer’s eye for brand storytelling with a data-minded curiosity (interest in data science and AI on his GitHub) to optimize engagement and conversion across channels.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Advertising, Bachelor’s Degree Advertising at Academy of Art UniversityAssociates Media Arts, Associates Media Arts at Irvine Valley College
Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese
Github Skills (1)
search-engine2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jvirico/kalman-tracker
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
jvirico/augmented-reality-poc-unity
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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