Vanessa Freudenberg
  • @codefrau
  • Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Croquet.io
  • Los Angeles
  • she/her
I'm a Smalltalker in Javascriptland

I design and implement the lower levels of the Croquet collaboration platform, including the SDK and our server infrastructure. I give talks about it, and I maintain the servers. Yeah we're still a smol team 😅

Previously (and still in my spare time) I worked a lot with Smalltalk, the original object-oriented language. I was on Alan Kay's team for a dozen years and implemented Virtual Machines for Smalltalk-78 and Squeak in JS.
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Jan 2007 - Present

Developer, and Board member, Squeak

Jan 2018 - Present

Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Croquet

Aug 2006 - Dec 2017

Freelancing Developer, Dr.-Ing. Freudenberg

Jan 2004 - Jun 2006

Developer, impara GmbH

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Croquet launched publicly a few days ago. Here’s my blog post about what our tech actually is. Like, how we run a virtual server on each client, so your code and data never leaves the client, and s...
Virtual Detroit Midfield Terminal project at UMich's VR-Lab This was my first big VR project - we had versions of it running on SGI Performer in a Cave, on SGI Inventor with a Fakespace BOOM stereo...
Shipped Squeak/Etoys on OLPC XO-1 I worked with others at Alan Kay's VPRI on the Etoys authoring system for the One Laptop Per Child machine. It let children and teachers built interactive simulati...
Released Plopp 3D (meaning, we brought the golden CD-ROM master to the manufacturer) This was our first (and only) app we built at impara. A 3D authoring tool for kids, implemented in Squeak Smallt...