Onidia González Ramos

Co-Founder, CEO @ nWay

About

Janey is a serial entrepreneur in the high-tech and online gaming sectors. As the co-founder and CEO of nWay, a San Francisco-based developer, publisher, and platform for web2 and web3 games across mobile, PC, and consoles, Janey plays various roles in the development and marketing of all the company's products. nWay was acquired by Animoca Brands in 2020 and currently operates as an independent subsidiary. nWay has a strong track record of developing high-quality multiplayer games on mobile, PC, and console , such as ChronoBlade, Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, WWE: Undefeated, Battlepalooza, and Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022. Previously, Janey co-founded Nurien Software, which created the 3D virtual world platform Nurien and launched the successful music-based online game MStar. Nurien received over $25 million in venture funding and was eventually acquired by Netmarble. Before Nurien, Janey led the Korean studio for Realtime Worlds, a UK-headquartered developer behind Crackdown and APB. Taehoon is also an advisor to various successful tech startups, including SundayToz, Coffee meets Bagel, and Cloudgine. Early in his career, Janey was part of Samsung Electronics' New Business Development team, where he worked as a product manager for their smartphone-based mobile gaming platform. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Master of Engineering degree in Operations Research and Information Engineering from Cornell University.

Country

United States

City

Menlo Park

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Experience

Co-Founder, CEO

nWay

2015 - Present · 11 yrs

San Francisco Bay Area

Led the company to an M&A with Animoca Brands in 2020. - Raised over $35M in funding from top-tier Silicon Valley VCs including Ridge Ventures (IDG Ventures), March Capital, Baseline Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Harrison Metal, Translink Capital, WIHarper, Zhenfund, Keytone Ventures, and XG. - Led the development of nWay's low latency real-time multiplayer tech, and cross-play, cross-progression engine for free-to-play games. - Successfully developed and launched ChronoBlade on browser (Facebook), and mobile platforms globally. Self-published globally, except for Korea and China. Launched in Korea with top-tier publisher Netmarble, reaching #4 Top Grossing and #1 Top Free in Korea. Launched in China with top-tier publisher Netease, reaching #23 Top Grossing and #7 Top Free in China. - Successfully developed and launched Power Rangers: Legacy Wars. First synchronous fighting game on mobile with over 80 million downloads world wide. - Successfully closed IP partnership deal with Lionsgate and Saban to develop and publish Power Rangers mobile game world wide along with the movie launch in March 2017. - Launched Power Rangers: LegacyWars with over 80 million downloads. - Launched Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, the first fighting game to have cross-play across consoles, PC, and streaming (Stadia). - Launched WWE: Undefeated on mobile. - Led the development and launch of P2E games platform nWayPlay. Launched nWayPlay marketplace and Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022.

Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager

VMware

2016-9 - 2020-8 · 4 yrs

Palo Alto, CAPalo Alto, CA

Established the ESXi userspace as a separate entity. Established charters and ownership areas for all the teams within this entity. Directly managed the team integrating ESXi hosts into Kubernetes clusters. Managed the managers of the teams working on ESXi userspace devkits and the corresponding QE team. Grew the team from 4 to 20 engineers and 2 managers.

Senior Software Development Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

2015-11 - 2016-9 · 11 mos

Fremont, California, United States

Manage the teams for Peer Motion, Peer Persistence and Remote Copy for the HPE 3PAR storage division. Responsible for hiring, performance, scalability, roadmap planning and feature development.