Daniela Barbosa is the General Manager of Blockchain and Identity at the Linux Foundation and the Executive Director of the Hyperledger Foundation. ^{[1] [2]}

Career

Daniela Barbosa serves a dual role as the General Manager of Blockchain and Identity at the Linux Foundation and as the Executive Director of the Hyperledger Foundation. In her capacity as Executive Director, she holds overall strategic and operational responsibility for the Hyperledger Foundation's staff, programs, expansion, and the execution of its mission. Her work involves fostering collaboration within the open-source community to build and deploy technologies that can optimize foundational infrastructure. ^{[2] [1]}

Barbosa has over two decades of experience in enterprise technology. Before her current roles, she served for four years as the Hyperledger Foundation’s Vice President of Worldwide Alliances. In this position, she was responsible for managing the member community, leading broader industry and business community outreach, and fostering the overall growth of the network. ^[2]

Her career began at Dow Jones, where she collaborated with top global brands across various sectors, including finance, consumer, and energy. Her work involved architecting and delivering enterprise systems, ontologies, and semantic web solutions. In the early 2000s, Barbosa became an active participant in the early web 2.0 community. She focused on advancing concepts of digital identity and data portability, promoting the idea of users reusing their data across interoperable applications. ^[2]

Throughout her career, Barbosa has focused on advancing the use of decentralized systems to create more secure, private, and inclusive digital environments. Her advocacy centers on the principle that openly developed technologies are key to achieving these goals in both public and private sector applications. ^[1]