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Amitt Mahajan is an American entrepreneur and software engineer who co-created the game FarmVille and co-founded the company Red Hot Labs (Toro). He was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012.

Background
Mahajan was born in Hoffman Estates, Illinois and then attended University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where he graduated with a degree in Computer Science in 2005.

Mahajan started virtual world MyMiniLife in 2006 with fellow University of Illinois classmates. MyMiniLife was acquired by Zynga in 2009 while the team was developing the Facebook game FarmVille. Mahajan helped create and led development for FarmVille.

After working on FarmVille, Mahajan led the development for the games Treasure Isle (video game) and CityVille.

Leaving Zynga in 2012, Amitt started Red Hot Labs with his cofounder Joel Poloney. Red Hot Labs' product Toro was focused on Social network advertising and was acquired by Google in 2015.

In 2012, Forbes added Mahajan to their 30 under 30 list and was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the University of Illinois-Urbana-Campaign Computer Science department for his work on FarmVille.