Carla Meninsky is a former video game designer and programmer active during the early years of the Atari VCS.
[1] Along with Carol Shaw (creator of 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe and River Raid), Meninsky was one of three female engineers at Atari, Inc. to develop video game cartridges.
Meninsky's mother was a programmer and Carla learned programming in high school, but she switched from mathematics to neuropsychology and brain modelling at Stanford University.
Given her artistic bent, Meninsky was particularly interested in vision and eventually veered back toward programming and a lifelong dream of creating animation tools.
[4] Meninsky worked for Electronic Arts (EA) and other game publishers and eventually started her own successful contract programming company.