Iris Zhang is a gameplay engineer at Riot Games on the League of Legends Champions Engineering team. She previously worked on backend services at Microsoft.

We discuss:

Working at Microsoft and Riot Games
Finding a role and team that fits you
Backend services vs gameplay engineering
Building features, testing, and debugging gameplay
Using internal tools to create game logic

Related Links:

Personal Site
@riotnyanbun
Clean Code (Book used by Microsoft team)
Spring Framework (Java web framework used by League of Legends)
Chef (Deployment tool used at Riot)
Hazelcast (Cache that Riot Games switched to)
What it's like to work on League of Legends
Sylas (Champion that can steal ultimates)
Clash (Public facing mode worked on by backend team)

Music by Crystal Cola: 12:30 AM / Orion

League of Legends Gameplay Engineering with Iris Zhang