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Weiden in 2008

Fernanda G. Weiden is a Brazilian free software advocate and chief technology officer at VTEX. She has worked for Debian, Google and Facebook.

Personal life

Fernanda Weiden was raised in Porto Alegre, Brazil.[1] She studied at Imperial College London and Anhembi Morumbi University.[2] She is married with two children and moved to Europe in 2019.[3]

Career

Weiden first became involved with the Free software movement in 1997 and became an advocate for free software.[4][1] In June 2003, Fernanda Weiden and Loimar Vianna founded Projeto Software Livre Mulheres.[5][6] She was a sponsored Debian contributor;[4][7] she was a member of Debian Women and participated until 2011.[8][9] In 2004, she started a thread complaining about the prospective package hot-babe, which featured drawings of a girl undressing.[10][11]

On 16 September 2006, Weiden participated in two panels at Wizards of OS 4 in Berlin; she was one of the speakers in The Future of Free Software, together with Atul Chitnis and Federico Heinz.[12][13] The previous day, Larry Sanger announced Citizendium;[14] She was interviewed about the open source situation in Latin America.[1] At FISL 12, Weiden managed a course for women about system administration.[15] In FISL 15, she talked about failures in large-scale systems.[16]

Weiden worked for six years at Google and then moved to Facebook, where she grew to became director of Production Engineering. After seven years at Facebook, she joined Brazilian company Unico.[3] In September 2021, Weiden was promoted to the board of Unico, after previously being vice-president of engineering.[17] The following year, she became chief technology officer at VTEX.[2]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b c Deterding, Sebastian (2006-12-01). "'Microsoft loves piracy'". Federal Agency for Civic Education. Archived from the original on 2014-12-02. Retrieved 2014-11-22.
  2. ^ a b "The Top 25 Software CTOs of 2023". The Software Report. 13 March 2023. Archived from the original on 30 May 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b Ingizza, Carolina (18 September 2021). "Unico: Ex-VP de engenharia assume como 1ª mulher no conselho do unicórnio". Exame (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Fernanda G. Weiden". Debian. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  5. ^ "Women in Free Software, by Fernanda G. Weiden". Groklaw. Pamela Jones. 2005-09-12. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-21.
  6. ^ "Quem somos?" (in Portuguese). Projeto Software Livre Mulheres. Archived from the original on 2004-10-14. Retrieved 2014-11-21.
  7. ^ "ITP: gnome-doc-utils -- utilities for working with GNOME documentation". Debian BTS. 2004-11-21. Archived from the original on 2017-10-31. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  8. ^ "Contact". Debian. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  9. ^ "debian-women May 2011 by thread". Debian. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  10. ^ Marson, Ingrid (2004-12-14). "Debian group encourages women developers". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
  11. ^ Byfield, Bruce (2005-01-07). "Hot Babe and Debian: A test case for community standards in free software". Linux.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2014-11-22.
  12. ^ "Brazil, the Free Culture Nation". Wizards of OS. Archived from the original on 2014-07-12. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
  13. ^ WOS4: The Future Of Free Software (Video). Wizards of OS. 2006-09-16. Retrieved 2014-11-24 – via Internet Archive.
  14. ^ Quality Management in Free Content. Wizards of OS. 2006-09-15. Event occurs at 63:35. Archived from the original on 2014-09-29. Retrieved 2014-11-26.
  15. ^ "4Linux e Debian Women ministrarão curso inicial de administração de sistemas para meninas no FISL" (in Portuguese). 4Linux. 2011-06-13. Archived from the original on 2015-07-26. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  16. ^ Santana, Paulo (2014-05-07). "Especialista ensina lições valiosas para evitar falhas em sistemas em larga escala" (in Portuguese). Associação Software Livre. Archived from the original on 2014-08-10. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  17. ^ Redação (23 September 2021). "Fernanda Weiden assume cadeira no Conselho de Administração da unico". ERP. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

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