elections: Add Fabiano Fidêncio's candidacy

One can hope to come back home. :-)

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>

Author: fidencio

elections/arch-committee-2026-04/FabianoFidencio.md

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+Name: Fabiano Fidêncio
+
+Email: fabiano@fidencio.org
+
+Background:
+
+I am a Software Engineer, a tattoo canvas for abstract art, a music addict, a
+goats and pigs instagram follower, and a big fan of old video games.
+
+In the past 6 years I dedicated a huge chunk of my professional and personal
+time contributing to the Kata Containers project and community, with a strong
+focus on helping the project growing, regardless of my employer at the time.
+
+My involvement with Kata Containers has been intense as I've been involved in
+pretty much every part of the project, as well as in upstream projects that
+Kata Containers interacts with.  Moreover, I've also served the community as
+an Architecture Committee member several years ago, for several years in a row,
+but at the time I stepped out as I was not able to provide the community the
+dedication it deserved.
+
+In the enterprise world, I have worked on and left a considerable footprint on
+Red Hat's product using OpenShift, on Intel's TDX support and their commitment
+to the project, and most recently on NVIDIA's work to bring in confidential
+computing and workload isolation as part of the AI infrastructure.
+
+In the community space, I also have helped on a lot of different parts of the
+project. connected people to have their problems solved, mentored both
+newcomers and students into our community, led Architecture Committee meetings,
+led vPTG's Kata Containers session, have publicly spoken about the project, and
+mentored and guided folks to become proficient in the project (and nowadays I
+see some of those either as part of the Architecture Committee or aspiring to
+be part of the Architecture Committee).  I'm fully hands-on on code-reviewing,
+development, CI, always focusing on easing the adoption of the project.  I have
+been managing past and current releases, and have been working as much as
+possible to grow this community in a healthy way.
+
+My main motivations are still to increase Kata Containers adoption in the
+industry, while ensuring the project is stable and easily consumable.  This is
+more important now than ever as new players are adopting and contributing to
+the Kata Containers project.
+
+To make it possible, I plan to continue working in the integration bits, while
+connecting and facilitating the communication between the Kata Containers
+community and the communities that I am part of.
+
+Fabiano Fidêncio (Slack: @fidencio)

kata-dictionary.txt

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 Aurelien
 Bombo
 Fabiano
+Fidêncio
 Fupan
 Horsman
 Kurz