[3] In March 2006, Freedman co-founded Illuminics Systems, an information technology company working in the area of IP geolocation and intelligence, with Martin Casado.

[2] Freedman's research interests include distributed systems, networking, and security.

[2] In addition to his work with the Coral Content Distribution Network, he has designed systems such as TimescaleDB and JetStream.

[4] In 2011, Freedman received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his work in designing, building, and prototyping a "modern, highly scalable, replicated storage cloud system" in addition to efforts to increase student diversity at Princeton University.

[5] His research involving the design and deployment of geo-distributed systems earned him the Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2018.