Fernanda G. Weiden is a

free software Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...

advocate and CTO at the brazilian multinationa
VTEX
She has worked for

Debian Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of D ...

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

and

Facebook Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin M ...

Personal life

Fernanda Weiden was raised in

Porto Alegre Porto Alegre (, , Brazilian ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of 1,488,252 inhabitants (2020) makes it the List of largest cities in Brazil, twelfth most populous city in the country ...

, Brazil. She is married with one child. She moved to Europe in 2019.

Career

Fernanda Weiden became involved with the Free software movement in 1997 and then became an advocate for

. In June 2003, Fernanda Weiden and Loimar Vianna founded Projeto Software Livre Mulheres. She is an example of

cyberfeminism Cyberfeminism is a feminist approach which foregrounds the relationship between cyberspace, the Internet, and technology. It can be used to refer to a philosophy, methodology or community. The term was coined in the early 1990s to describe the wor ...

, along with developers such as Alice Wu and Yuwei Lin. Weiden was a sponsored

contributor; she was a member of Debian Women and participated until 2011. In 2004, she started a thread complaining about the prospective package hot-babe, which featured drawings of a girl undressing. On 16 September 2006, she participated in two panels at Wizards of OS 4 in Berlin; Weiden was one of the speakers in ''The Future of Free Software'', together with

Atul Chitnis Atul Chitnis (20 February 1962 – 3 June 2013) was an Indians in Germany, Indo-German consulting technologist. He was one of the organizers of FOSS.IN (formerly Linux Bangalore), which was one of Asia's free and open source software (FOSS) ...

and

Federico Heinz Federico Heinz is an Argentinian programmer and Free Software advocate living in London. He is a co-founder and former president of Fundación Vía Libre, a non-profit organization that promotes the free flow of knowledge as a motor for social p ...

. The previous day, Larry Sanger announced Citizendium; She was interviewed about the

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situation in Latin America. In FISL 12, Weiden managed a course for women about system administration. In FISL 15, she talked about failures in large-scale systems. Weiden worked for six years at

and then moved to

, where she became director of engineering and production. After seven years at Facebook, she joined Brazilian company Unico. In September 2021, Weiden was promoted to the board of Unico, after previously being vice-president of engineering.

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