Linda Liukas

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.

• She is the author of ”Hello Ruby”, a children’s picture book about the fanciful world of computers. 

• 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.

• She married her best friend “Ville Vesterinen” in August 2016. 

• 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.