Jorge Garcia
CEO Founder at Forbes Technology Council
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJorge Garcia is a founder and CEO with 13+ years of hands-on leadership in fintech and consumer apps, currently building Linker Finance to modernize digital banking for community banks. He blends a B.Eng. in Computer Science and an M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems with two decades of product and engineering experience delivering platforms used by millions at companies like Disney and Coca-Cola. As co-founder and former CTO of Hello Iconic and earlier startups, he scaled teams from single digits to 90+ engineers, diversified revenue streams, and pivoted businesses into high-growth fintech and blockchain practices. Jorge pairs technical depth—real-time image processing, OpenGL/OpenCV systems, and large-scale mobile products—with strategic go-to-market execution and client-focused product design. Recognized as an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 and an Aspen CALI Fellow, he combines elite academic credentials and leadership fellowship experience with a competitive drive honed as a former national swimmer. Based in Pasadena, he is passionate about financial innovation that measurably improves people’s lives while helping legacy banks compete in a digital-first world.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Scaling Program, Scaling Program at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMaster of Science - MS Intelligent Systems Design, Master of Science - MS Intelligent Systems Design at Chalmers University of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana
Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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facebook
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Github Skills (17)
facebook9
ios-framework7
video-processing7
camera6
android-viewpager6
android-dialog6
rotation6
gesture-recognition6
android6
gpu6
coregraphics6
android-fragments6
swift5
bitcoin5
android-application2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jagbolanos/FLAnimatedImage_AFNetworking
Oct 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes in 10 months
votosocial/votosocial.github.io
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 9 days
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