Zander Brumbaugh is a technical author and AI researcher based in Seattle, Washington. His work as an independent developer on the Roblox platform has been played more than 300 million times. He is also a best-selling textbook author, with works on programming and game development. Zander's research focuses on the improvement of language models for real-world settings. He currently attends the University of Washington and is part of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.Manuel Leithner is a senior gameplay programmer based in Bamberg, Germany. While working on his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business Informatics / Information Systems, he started modding for Farming Simulator 2008, the first title of the series. A few years later, he worked as a freelancer for GIANTS Software on several DLCs and major game releases. In 2015, a branch office in Erlangen, Germany was opened and he became the head of the office as a studio manager. Since then, he has also become the lead gameplay programmer and responsible for gameplay across the whole franchise.