Summary
Zach Chen is a data and insights executive with a decade of experience shaping analytics, research, and strategy for consumer products at Riot Games, Shopify, Instagram, and Spotify. He currently leads insights for League of Legends Publishing and Esports, where he built a cross-functional team, modernized data infrastructure, and authored metrics frameworks that drive portfolio decisions. Zach is known for translating messy, multi-source signals into clear executive action and for integrating AI into analytics workflows to accelerate insight delivery. His background spans product-facing analytics, experimentation, and causal inference, with a track record of building measurement frameworks adopted as organizational standards. He mentors analytics leaders who operate at the intersection of product, research, and business, and brings a practitioner's fluency in both engineering and product strategy. Based in Los Angeles, he combines enterprise-scale experience with a hands-on curiosity—he even occasionally shares small projects on GitHub.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science, Data Science at General Assembly
BS of Management, Electronic Commerce with Law, BS of Management, Electronic Commerce with Law at Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications
Master, Information System Managment, Master, Information System Managment at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Commerce with Law, Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Commerce with Law at Queen Mary, U. of London
Chinese, English