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technology2 years ago

14-year-old SpaceX engineer loses LinkedIn account due to age

Kairan Quazi, the 14-year-old prodigy who will soon start a full-time job at SpaceX, has had his LinkedIn account restricted due to his age. LinkedIn's minimum age requirement is 16, and the company confirmed that Quazi's account had been restricted because of his age. Quazi criticized LinkedIn's "primitive" age limit, stating that he was qualified enough to land a job at SpaceX but not qualified enough to have access to a professional social media platform. Quazi graduated from college eight years early and will begin work as a software engineer on SpaceX's Starlink team next month.

technology2 years ago

SpaceX hires 14-year-old prodigy as software engineer

SpaceX has hired Kairan Quazi, a 14-year-old "child prodigy" who graduated from college eight years early, as a software engineer. Quazi thanked SpaceX for focusing on his academic accomplishments and skills rather than his age. The company recently secured a contract with the Department of Defense to provide communication satellite services for use in Ukraine.

education2 years ago

14-year-old prodigy hired by SpaceX after graduating from Santa Clara University.

Kairan Quazi, a 14-year-old from the Bay Area, has become the youngest-ever graduate of Santa Clara University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and engineering. He has also completed graduate-level courses in machine learning and has been hired as a software engineer by SpaceX's Starlink team. Quazi had an impressive resume, including an internship at Intel Labs' Human AI Lab and fluency in multiple programming languages. Despite his prodigy status, he considers himself a "pretty normal person."

technology2 years ago

14-year-old Kairan Quazi joins SpaceX as youngest engineer.

Kairan Quazi, a 14-year-old software engineer, is set to become the youngest employee at SpaceX. He will be joining the Starlink engineering team after graduating from Santa Clara University and moving from California to Washington state in July. Quazi expressed his excitement in a LinkedIn post, stating that SpaceX did not use his age as an arbitrary measure of his maturity and ability.