Fern G
Co-Founder at Cross Border Collaboration Network
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFern G is a cross-border entrepreneur and operator with 11 years of experience building bridges between capital, policy, and people across the Americas and Europe from Austin, Texas. As Co-Founder of Cross Border Collaboration Network and Managing Partner of De La Garza - Villarreal Strategies, she has driven international investments, nearshoring, and real estate ventures that include a 30+ property portfolio and consistently above-market margins. She combines hands-on deal and supply-chain execution with digital marketing and trade-mission leadership, convening high-level stakeholders and even presidents to accelerate strategic partnerships. A lifelong learner with technical chops, Fern contributes to open-source projects as a software engineer and test automation specialist, improving test coverage for industrial PLC tooling and enhancing front-end experiences for VSCode extensions. Her background in international finance, an MBA-level business foundation, and leadership certificates from Georgetown and UT Austin underpin a rare mix of policy fluency, operational rigor, and product-minded engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Masters degree Business Administration and Management General, Masters degree Business Administration and Management General at The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyGlobal competitiveness leadership certificate program Organizational Leadership, Global competitiveness leadership certificate program Organizational Leadership at Georgetown UniversityLeadership program Educational Leadership and Administration General, Leadership program Educational Leadership and Administration General at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor in International Finance International Finance Economics, Bachelor in International Finance International Finance Economics at Universidad de Monterrey
Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
unit-testing10
typescript10
typescripts10
vscode-extension10
pytest10
python10
typescript-types10
test-automation10
javascript9
user-interface9
configuration-management8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
ide-stories/vscode-stories
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Stories for VSCode
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 38 commits, 20 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Fern appears to have focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the VSCode extension. Their contributions include adding features related to recording stories, such as updating status indicators and managing recording paths. They also made adjustments to the UI, including updating flair and badge elements, and contributed to constants.
vscodevscode-extension
dmroeder/pylogix
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Read/Write data from Allen Bradley Compact/Control Logix PLC's
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 102 commits, 47 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Fern's commits primarily focus on adding and modifying unit tests for the `pylogix` library, a Python library for reading and writing data from Allen Bradley PLCs. The user created new test files (e.g., `BasicTests.py`, `PylogixTests.py`) and a randomizer to test various data types and PLC functionalities, demonstrating a strong emphasis on automated testing. Further contributions involved adding test fixtures and expanding test coverage to include UDTs and array fixtures, highlighting a commitment to thorough testing and code quality.
siemenspythoncompactread-writecip
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