General
- What's your name? How do your friends call you?
- Fernanda. My friends call me "Fê" or "Fer".
- When were you born?
- June 1984.
- Where are you from? Where have you lived?
- I'm naturally from Santos/BR. I lived in Santos, Campinas and São Paulo (Brazil, the three of them).
- What languages (natural and programming ones) do you know?
- Portuguese, English, Spanish.
- Python, Go; learnt Pascal and C++ in college but forgot.
- Would like to share your Twitter, Instagram or Medium or any other social media account?
Work
- What are you going to be doing at source{d}?
- Data Intelligence, under Product Team. I work turning the internal and external reality into actionable insights for decision-making in a variety of levels and teams; this could take the form of spreadsheets, data pipelines, software, dashboards, reports, presentations, recommendations… a.k.a. data science when closer to business than to research.
- Why did you join source{d}?
- Super great opportunity! I was living in Brazil and studying Machine Learning when I heard source{d} needed a Data Intelligence analyst. A great job in a great company that's located in a great city.
- Where will you work from?
- Mostly Madrid office; sometimes remote from my house, sometimes remote from Brazil.
- If you could only save one programming language, which one would it be?
- Python.
- If you wanted to do an investment, what company would you choose?
- No idea.
Other
- What are your hobbies and what do you like about them?
- Anything related to music; attending concerts, listening to vinyls while having food and wine with friends, going to vinyl fairs. I love the power that music has to turn feelings into melodies, make you dance, make you cry, make you feel invincible etc.
- Beer with friends: I'm an introvert (really, I swear), so I have few true friends. And I love bonding with them, having a laugh over stupid things or deep conversations in bars while drawing on napkins.
- Cooking (and eating afterwards of course): I love cooking, I believe it has a strong relation to our roots, our hearts, our feelings.
- Reading, going to museums, watching movies: activities that take my mind off my comfort zone and makes me think "WOW".
- Lately, exercising: it's been a couple of years that I really enjoy exercising (especially running), weirdly. To feel the rush of blood, the energy, my mind becoming clearer... it's awesome.
- Deep, philosophical, crazy conversations.
- What was the last lie you told?
- "I have read and accept the terms and conditions"
- What was your first thought when you woke up this morning?
- "Please, cat, get out of my face" (literally)
- What question do you hate to answer?
- Any shallow question made by someone who's not really interested in an answer.
- What’s your favorite knock-knock joke?
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Most of my favorite jokes are stupid puns in Portuguese. My favorite one is (I adapted to Spanish):
- "Quién eres tu?"
- "Soy el Paraguayo y vine aquí para matarte!"
- "Para que?"
- "Paraguayo!"
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- If you could have a coffee with any person in the world, who would it be?
- My father (he passed away when I was 9, he was a brilliant and beloved man).
- Would you like to share with us a story about yourself?
- I love science since I was a kid. My dad was a chemical engineer and chemistry teacher, so my house was filled with beakers, Erlenmeyer flasks, science books etc. Besides dolls, I usually got small "chemistry lab kits for kids" as Christmas gifts and I didn't care about instructions, so I ended up mixing all the substances together, making a big mess.
- What food do you like and dislike?
- Love: PIZZA. PIZZA. PIZZA! I mean, I like many dishes, but if I had to pick something to eat after spending 2 months in a space station, it would be pizza. Unless it had ginger, I hate anything with ginger.
- What is your favorite quote?
- “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
