Marco Garcia
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026Riot Games3 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- Coalesce
- Data + AI Summit
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 2026 | Coalesce on the Road Newport Beach 2026 | Coalesce | speaker | Leveling Up Data Engineering at Riot: How We Rolled Out dbt and Transformed the Developer Experience as Riot Games Riot Games reduced its Databricks compute spend and accelerated development cycles by transforming its data engineering workflows—migrating from bespoke…Show lessRiot Games reduced its Databricks compute spend and accelerated development cycles by transforming its data engineering workflows—migrating from bespoke Databricks notebooks and Spark pipelines to a scalable, testable, and developer-friendly dbt-based architecture. | |
| Oct 13, 2025 | Coalesce 2025 | Coalesce | speaker | Leveling up data engineering at Riot: How they transformed DevEx with dbt as Riot Games Riot Games reduced its Databricks compute spend and accelerated development cycles by migrating from bespoke Databricks notebooks and Spark pipelines to a…Show lessRiot Games reduced its Databricks compute spend and accelerated development cycles by migrating from bespoke Databricks notebooks and Spark pipelines to a scalable, testable, and developer-friendly dbt-based architecture. | Video |
| Jun 9, 2025 | Data + AI Summit 2025 | Data + AI Summit | speaker | Sponsored by: dbt Labs | Leveling Up Data Engineering at Riot: How We Rolled Out dbt and Transformed the Developer Experience as Riot Games Riot Games reduced its Databricks compute spend and accelerated development cycles by transforming its data engineering workflows—migrating from bespoke…Show lessRiot Games reduced its Databricks compute spend and accelerated development cycles by transforming its data engineering workflows—migrating from bespoke Databricks notebooks and Spark pipelines to a scalable, testable, and developer-friendly dbt-based architecture. In this talk, members of the Developer Experience & Automation (DEA) team will walk through how they designed and operationalized dbt to support Riot’s evolving data needs. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zach Ward | 2 | 2 | 2026 |
| David Hrncir | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Joe Dabrowski | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Russell Christopher | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Elias DeFaria | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Gaurav Saraf | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Gleb Mezhanskiy | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Sarah Levy | 2 | — | 2025 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.