Amanda Wixted (born November 23, 1981) is an American video game programmer and founder of Meteor Grove Software.
[1] She graduated from Stevenson School in 2000 and attended the University of Arizona[1] where she received a bachelor's degree in computer science.
Previous to the release of PetVille, she was promoted to the tech lead for the iPhone team at Zynga.
[2] As tech lead, Wixted widely expanded the company's social gaming network on the iPhone.
[1] Wixted is currently CTO of Homer, an educational startup that helps kids learn to read.