Meet the Newest Employee at Elon Musk's SpaceX. He's 14. – Business Insider

SpaceX has hired a young prodigy to join its Starlink division as a software engineer.  14-year-old Kairan Quazi will graduate this month from Santa Clara University in California. He started studying computer science and engineering at the age of 11. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. The latest recruit at SpaceX is a software engineer who passed its “technically challenging” and “fun” interview process.  What’s different about Kairan Quazi is that he’s just 14 years old.He said in a LinkedIn post on Thursday: “I will be joining the coolest company on the planet as a software engineer on the Starlink engineering team. One of the rare companies that did not use my age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability.”The post came shortly before his graduation from Santa Clara University’s school of engineering, becoming the youngest person to do so, the Seattle Times reported. He’s planning to make the move from Pleasanton, California with his mother to start work at SpaceX in Redmond, Washington, per the report.Quazi’s extraordinary journey started at the age of two, when he could speak in complete sentences. By
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