Amanda Wixted is a senior software engineer and engineering leader with 16 years of experience building games, tools, and educational software across startups and large tech companies. Currently at Apple as an ICT 5 senior engineer, she has previously led product and engineering teams as CTO and founder, shipped major mobile game ports and social titles at Zynga, and ran a boutique iOS game consultancy. Her background blends hands-on systems and gameplay server work with product leadership, from EC2 cluster ops to iPhone game launches. Based in Menlo Park, she combines entrepreneurial grit with sustained technical delivery and a knack for turning playful concepts into polished user experiences. An unexpected note: her career includes unconventional early roles that reveal strong presentation and stage confidence, which she channels into team leadership and public-facing product work.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
High school, High school at Robert Louis Stevenson School
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Amanda Wixted - Senior Software Engineer, ICT 5 at Apple