SpaceX's newest software engineer 14-year-old Kairan Quazi discusses his plans to further his career at Elon Musk's satellite internet constellation, Starlink.
"I was speaking in full sentences at age two. I started doing programming at seven, and I was reading complicated books.
"That was one of my first exposures to very advanced math. And, unbeknownst to them, I did learn from it. And so that really helpedQuazi enrolled in Las Positas College, a community college in Livermore, California, at a mere nine years old. Two years later, he transferred to Santa Clara University to study computer science and engineering and recently became the school's youngest-ever graduate.
"It really feels natural, like I'm with people that I can completely be myself around. I don't have to censor my speech or conversations. I'm also very active on campus, and I'm lucky to be embraced by a lot of very close friends, which does include a few professors," he said Thursday.
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