Linda Liukas Height, Weight, Age, Husband, Biography, Facts & More
Bio/Wiki | |
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Real Name | Linda Liukas |
Profession(s) | Writer, Computer Programmer, Storyteller |
Famous For | "Hello Ruby" (A programming book for kids) |
Physical Stats & More | |
Height (approx.) | in centimeters- 153 cm in meters- 1.53 m in feet inches- 5’ 4” |
Weight (approx.) | in kilograms- 50 kg in pounds- 110 lbs |
Figure Measurements (approx.) | 30-28-34 |
Eye Colour | Dark Blue/Hazel |
Hair Colour | Extra Light Ash Blonde |
Personal Life | |
Date of Birth | 17 August 1986 |
Age (as in 2017) | 32 Years |
Birthplace | Finland |
Zodiac sign/Sun sign | Leo |
Nationality | Finnish |
Hometown | Not Known |
School | Not Known |
College/University | Aalto University Stanford University |
Educational Qualification(s) | Engineering, Product Engineering |
Hobbies | Travelling, Photography, Sketching, Reading |
Tatto | |
Boys, Affairs and More | |
Marital Status | Married |
Marriage Date | 29 August 2016 |
Family | |
Husband/Spouse | Ville Vesterinen |
Parents | Names Not Known |
Siblings | Brother- None Sister- 1, Name Not Known |
Favourite Things | |
Favourite Actor(s) | Tom Cruise, Vin Diesel |
Favourite Actresses | Emma Stone, Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson |
Favourite Movie | Harry Potter |
Favourite Destination | Helsinki (Southern Capital of Finland) |
Favourite Writer(s) | Astrid Lindgren (Swedish), Roald Dahl, Tove Jansson, Elena Ferrante, Tanizaki Junichiro and Hanya Yanagihara |
Some Lesser Known Facts About Linda Liukas
- Does Linda Liukas smoke?: Not Known
- Does Linda Liukas drink alcohol?: Yes
- When she was 13, she first showed an interest in creating websites. In 2001, she made a page in Finnish about Al Gore, hoping to show him how much she admired his values, not to mention his looks.
- The book published on Kickstarter in 2014 and quickly smashed its $10,000 funding goal after just 3.5 hours and gathering $3,80,000 in total funding.
- Hello Ruby became the most funded book on Kickstarter’s children’s book category at the time.
- She started off with a book that is now published in over 22 Languages, including Japanese, Korean, Dutch and even Finnish.
- Ruby was a sideline, she created for herself, drawing sketches of the little red-haired girl encountering a snow leopard or sorting out problems with penguins and green robots. Her friends encouraged her to publish the illustrations and explanations in a book form when she showed her approach to them.
- When she was 23, she Co-Founded Rails Girls as well, a global movement, to teach young women programming in over 270 cities.
- She also works with the online training platform Codecademy which provides courses free of charge.
- She is a story-teller who likes software.
- She won the 2013 Ruby Hero prize and was named the Digital Champion of Finland by the EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda.
- Linda’s TEDx talk in CERN on children and computing has been watched over 1.5 million times.