Jessica Zhang

Jessica Zhang is a Senior Data Engineer at Riot Games, where she is building the next generation of autonomous data platforms. Operating at the scale of millions of global players, Jess is focused on shifting the data development lifecycle from manual oversight to agentic automation. Her work centers on embedding AI agents directly into the engineering loop to handle logic validation, schema evolution, and self-healing pipelines, effectively removing the "toil" from the path to production. Jess has spent her career across various leading A/NZ tech organizations. She leverages a deep background in data infrastructure and cloud migration to help major brands build robust, scalable, and governed data ecosystems.