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