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Audrey Tang is a Taiwanese software programmer and entrepreneur. She is best known for her work in the open source software community, particularly in the Ruby on Rails and Perl programming languages. She is also the founder of the social enterprise, Social Innovation Labs. Audrey Tang was born on 18 April 1981 in Taipei, Taiwan. She attended the National Taiwan University, where she studied computer science and engineering. After graduating, she worked as a software engineer for a number of companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google. In 2005, Tang founded the open source software project, Ruby on Rails. She also founded the Social Innovation Labs, a social enterprise that works to promote social innovation and entrepreneurship in Taiwan. In 2016, Tang was appointed as the Digital Minister of Taiwan, making her the first openly transgender minister in the world. In this role, she has worked to promote digital innovation and open source software in Taiwan. As of 2021, Audrey Tang's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million. She has earned her wealth through her successful career as a software programmer and entrepreneur.

Popular As Autrijus Tang Tsung-han (唐宗漢)
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Age 43 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 18 April 1981
Birthday 18 April
Birthplace Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality Taiwanese

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2016

Tang was named a minister without portfolio in the Lin Chuan cabinet in August 2016. She took office as the "Digital Minister" on October 1, and was placed in charge of helping government agencies communicate policy goals and managing information published by the government, both via digital means. Tang was quoted saying, "My existence is not to become a minister for a certain group, nor to broadcast government propaganda. Instead, it is to become a "channel" to allow greater combinations of intelligence and strength to come together." Tang was given this role in the Taiwanese cabinet, as a minister without portfolio, to bridge the gap between the older and younger generations. Tang is currently working on the development of free software, for the public to access, and show that the new Taiwanese sharing economy, is in fact a working system. At age 35, Tang became the youngest minister without portfolio in Taiwanese history.

2005

In late 2005, Tang began transitioning to female, including changing her English and Chinese names, citing a need to reconcile her outward appearance with her self-image. When her gender transition is brought up, Tang has said, "I've been shutting reality off and lived almost exclusively on the net for many years, because my brain knows for sure that I am a woman, but the social expectations demand otherwise".

2001

On CPAN, Tang initiated over 100 Perl projects between June 2001 and July 2006, including the popular Perl Archive Toolkit (PAR), a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for Perl 5. She is also responsible for setting up smoke test and digital signature systems for CPAN. In October 2005, she was a speaker at O'Reilly Media's European Open Source Convention in Amsterdam.

2000

Tang's parents are Tang Kuang-hua and Lee Ya-ching. Tang showed an early interest in computers, beginning to learn Perl programming at age 12. Two years later, she dropped out of high school, unable to adapt to student life. By the year 2000, at the age of 19, Tang had already held positions in software companies, and worked in California's Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur.

1981

Audrey Tang (born 18 April 1981; formerly known as Autrijus Tang) is a Taiwanese free software programmer, who has been described as one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing personalities". In August 2016, she was invited to join the Taiwan Executive Yuan as a minister without portfolio, making her the first transgender official in the top executive cabinet.