Software Programmers and Developers From the LGBTQ Community
From QueerBio.com
With the large number of computer sites dedicated to the LGBTQ community, one would expect an equally large number of software programmers and developers to come from the community. A recent survey by Overflow showed that, of the 36,939 respondents in the field, 5.2 per cent identified as LGBTQ and 0.9 per cent identified as transgender. The same study finds that those development firms that employ LGBTQ individuals report 19 per cent higher revenues that those that are monolothic.
Organizations for LGBTQ individuals in software development include oSTEM (Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and Out4Undergrad
Canada
- Connie Bonello, CapGemini
Great Britain
- Peter Landin, academic
- Christopher Strachey, founder of denotational semantics
Sweden
- Peter Arvai, Prezi
Taiwan
Turkey
- Orkut Buyukkokten, Club Nexus
United States
- Chip Arndt, Merchant Advantage
- Andrew Chael,
- R. Martin Chavez, Quorum Software Systems
- Gene Dermody
- Chris Hughes, Facebook
- Tim Gill, Quark
- John 'Maddog' Hall, Linux
- Charles Lickel, IBM
- Vivienne Ming, Socos
- Claire O'Dell
- Irma Olguin Jr., Shift3 Technologies
- Brianna Titone
- Louise Young, Raytheon
- Ric Weiland, Microsoft
- Edith Windsor, IBM
- Stan Zanarotti, Dimensional Insight
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