Iris Zhang
Games Partner Engineer at Netflix
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIris Zhang is a Senior Games Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling live-service game systems, having shipped a AAA MOBA (League of Legends) and led engineering teams at Riot before joining Netflix’s games platform. She blends deep technical expertise across engine, rendering, networking, gameplay, and services at scale with three years of engineering management focused on organizational design, onboarding, and developer productivity. Known for turning around dysfunctional teams, she prioritizes psychological safety and alignment between long-term strategy and short-term delivery. A public speaker and community builder, she founded an Asian & Pacific Islander ERG and runs industry events to improve how games are made. Her background spans Big Tech (Microsoft, Azure Information Protection) to hands-on champion delivery, and she uniquely pairs a Columbia CS master’s with a finance and Chinese undergrad to navigate both technical and cross-cultural stakeholder challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Finance Chinese, BS Finance Chinese at University of Florida - Warrington College of BusinessMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (6)
macos1
swift1
ios1
cpp1
reactive1
swiftui1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
amardhingra/RCPP
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:12 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 16 days
reactivecppreactive-library
iz2140/Sol2Test
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 18 days
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