Audrey Tang
Cyber Ambassador at Perl 5
Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolAudrey Tang is a globally recognized civic technologist and software engineer with 22 years of experience who served as Taiwan’s first Digital Minister (2016–2024) and now represents Taiwan as Cyber Ambassador. Self-educated from age 14, Audrey blends deep open-source engineering (notably contributions to Haskell, Perl, Parrot VM and webworker threads) with institutional leadership, having built participatory platforms like vTaiwan and Join that modernized civic engagement. Their tenure helped shape Taiwan’s acclaimed COVID-19 response and protected the 2024 elections from foreign cyber interference, demonstrating operational security at national scale. Audrey’s career pairs low-level systems and front-end craftsmanship—examples include UI work on hackfoldr and core thread/runtime redesigns—with high-level policy advising across foundations, academia, and international boards. Grounded in Taoist practice and interdisciplinary self-study, they bring a rare mix of emotional discipline, technical depth, and democratic design.
22 years of coding experience
Self-Educated Linguistics Philosophy Informatics Psychology, Self-Educated Linguistics Philosophy Informatics Psychology at Self-Educated
English, Chinese
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
webworker10
web-application10
multithreading10
css10
sass10
user-interface10
ui-design10
perl10
parrot10
front-end-development10
webapp10
html10
web-development10
angular10
Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
audreyt/node-webworker-threads
Nov 2012 - Sep 2021
Lightweight Web Worker API implementation with native threads
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 commits, 28 PRs, 76 pushes in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Audrey made extensive changes involving renaming the project from "threads_a_gogo" to "WebWorkerThreads," indicating a refactoring or complete redesign of the core thread management logic. The commit introduced significant code modifications across numerous files, specifically changing file names and file contents including the creation of the BSON-related code. They added implementation of the Web Worker API and made several changes to the underlying code.
apimultithreadingjavascriptworker-threadsthreads
hackfoldr/hackfoldr
Mar 2013 - Aug 2020
organize gdoc and hackpad for hackathons
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:111 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Audrey primarily contributed to the user interface and visual aspects of the Hackfoldr project. Their work involved implementing features like a favicon, collapsible sidebar functionality, and displaying icons in collapsed views. They also addressed styling issues by modifying the SASS files, fixing display issues on certain browsers, and making adjustments to the front-end for better user experience. Furthermore, the user made adjustments related to how the title is rendered, and also performed some white-labeling tasks related to the app.
organizehackpad
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