June 16, 2016: A Month Celebrating LGBT+ Pride

On April 18, 1981 Audrey Tang, formerly known as Autrijus Tang, was born. From a young age, she showed interest in technology and began learning the programming language Perl at the age of 12. Tang was a high school drop-out, but at the age of 19 she had experience in software companies as well as entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. In 2005 at the age of 24, Tang began her transition (which is when she changed both her Chinese and English names).

With her IQ reportedly being 180, one can see that she is extremely intelligent, though that is quite evident in her accomplishments as listed below.

• Pugs: which was a project worked on by the Haskell and Perl communities to put together Perl 6
  

• Helped with Free Software programs: SVK, Request Tracker & Slash

• Between June ‘01 and July ‘06 Tang had started over 100 Perl projects