Summary
Juan Rebanal is a founder and creative director with a decade of engineering experience who blends machine learning, game design, and hands-on product leadership. Based in Pacifica, he founded Playgarden Games, scaling a solo project into a cross-functional team and serving as lead programmer, composer, and gameplay artist for the debut title Bootsies. Prior to founding his studio he spent several years at Oracle focused on ML and DevSecOps, and earlier research roles at UCLA and Ryerson produced applied work in autonomous vehicle localization, algorithm visualization, and physical-layer network monitoring. He is comfortable moving between research and production: prototyping embedded BLE/ESP32 systems and shipping cloud-scale ML services. Known for fostering openness and collaboration, he also brings creative skills—music composition and community marketing—that help games and ML projects stand out. Colleagues describe him as a challenge-seeker with a people-first approach who turns interdisciplinary ideas into shipped products.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
John Cabot Catholic Secondary School
University of California, Los Angeles
Toronto Metropolitan University