Bay Area native Kairen Quazi can't drive or see an R-rated movie. But next week, he will become the youngest graduate in the history of Santa Clara University and soon start his first job as a software engineer for SpaceX. ABC7 caught up with the gifted teen for one of his last classes at SCU.
Bay Area teen Kairen Quazi is only 14 years old, but he will become the youngest to graduate from Santa Clara University and start working for SpaceX.Bay Area native Kairen Quazi is an exceptional 14-year-old - next week he will become the youngest graduate in the history of Santa Clara University.He can't drive or see an R-rated movie, but Quazi landed his first job as a software engineer for SpaceX which he'll be starting next month.
By the time he transferred to SCU, he had already started working with Intel Labs as the only undergraduate intern on his team."I think there is a conventional mindset that I'm missing out on childhood, but I don't think that's true. I think again that mindset would have me graduating middle school now and I don't think it makes sense for someone that's able to take rigorous graduate electives work in a prestigious co-op - I am joining SpaceX as a software engineer.
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