Zander Brumbaugh

CEO @ Gamebeast | Forbes 30 Under 30

Gamebeast· Speedrun 002 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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2024Metaverse Platforms Advisor· Orange Comet, Inc.

In tech · since 2014

Company

Orange Comet, Inc.

Role

Metaverse Platforms Advisor

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Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Gamebeast

Analytics built for the future of gaming

Speedrun 002

Experience

Career

Gamebeast
CEO · 2023 – Present
2023
Code Metal
Researcher · 2023 – Present
2023
Roblox
Independent Developer · 2014 – Present
2014
University of Washington
NLP Researcher · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2023 – 2025
2023
University of Washington
CSE Course Instructor · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2024
2024
University of Washington
Project EMAR Researcher · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
Orange Comet, Inc.
Metaverse Platforms Advisor · 2024
2024
Orange Comet, Inc.
Metaverse Platforms Lead (Contract) · 2022 – 2024
2022
Trigger XR
Game Design Consultant · 2022 – 2023
2022
University of Washington
AI/ML Researcher · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020
Toybox Development
Programmer · 2020 – 2021
2020

Bio

Zander is a Seattle-based game designer, author, AI researcher, and founder of Gamebeast. Numerous games Zander has created have reached #1 on Roblox, achieving over 500 million play sessions in total and even merchandised at stores like Walmart and Target. He was recognized as part of Forbes 30 Under 30 2025 for his work. Zander is also a best-selling author on programming and game development, and conducts research on the alignment of large language models (LLMs).