M Fain
Co-founder & CPO at Spinster, LLC
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolM. Fain is a software engineer, product leader, and communications strategist with a decade of experience building decentralised social tools and feminist media platforms. As Co-founder and CPO of Soapbox Technology she led product development of Ditto, a cross-platform federation tool that bridges Nostr, ActivityPub and other protocols to advance censorship-resistant social networking. She also founded Spinster, the largest feminist instance in the Fediverse, and has a track record of launching open-source community projects that defend free expression under authoritarian pressure. Equally at home writing thought leadership and shaping media strategy for impact litigation, she blends technical fluency with advocacy—often working at the intersection of open-source software, digital sovereignty, and feminist activism. Based in Houston, she brings startup grit, content craft, and a consistent focus on ethical, community-driven tech.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Psychology, Psychology, 3.65, Applied Psychology, Psychology, 3.65 at Ithaca College
Github Skills (90)
django10
user-experience10
cms9
end-to-end-encryption9
python9
vegan9
collaborative-editing9
heroku9
docker9
wagtail9
google-forms9
flexibility9
dokku9
buildpack9
matrix8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
marykatefain/bookstr
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:58 PRs, 50 pushes, 3 branches in 14 days
marykatefain/personalsite
Feb 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
reactnextjs
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