His history turned the world. Kairan Quazi graduated at the University of Santa Clara with 14 years. Almost immediately, he was signed as Spacex software engineer. Now, the young prodigy has abandoned Elon Musk’s space company to work in finance.
The youngest employee of Spacex. He was not a fellow they sent for cafes. For two years, Kairan was one of Starlink engineers, the Spacex satellite Internet network. His work was critical: he designed the software that determines where the satellites point their beams to offer a stable connection.
“I had a very wide field of work and a lot of responsibility, especially for a junior engineer,” the boy tells Business Insider. Spacex expected him to lead projects from beginning to end: develop ideas, present them to other engineers and address, implement them and supervise the deployments.
With 16 years, I needed a change. After two years at the aerospace avant -garde, Kairan Quazi felt prepared to “assume new challenges and expand their skills” in a different high performance environment.
The young prodigy received offers from the most leading artificial intelligence laboratories, but it was a proposal of Citadel Securities, a trading giant, which finally convinced him to leave Spacex. Now work as quant developer developing financial models.
How many, the program of the programming. The decision to change rockets for financial algorithms is not accidental. For the best mathematicians and software engineers, only artificial intelligence competes in attractiveness with the world of finance specialized in quantitative analysis.
With millionaire wages, the Quants sector combines the complexity and intellectual challenge of other sectors with a much faster rhythm, measurable in days, not in months as in many research environments. In algorithmic trading, an idea is tested, implemented and gives results (for better or worse) in a matter of hours.
For the rest, a teenager. Kairan valued that Citadel Securities did not take into account his age or his years of experience when offering opportunities. But sometimes he has to remember that he is a teenager.
During his stage in Spacex, his mother had to take him to work every day because, with 14 years, he had no driving license. The episode in which LinkedIn erased the account was also famous for not having fulfilled the minimum age of 16.
De Silicon Valley a Wall Street. Kairan was born in the San Francisco Bay area and began his university studies with nine years. After his early entry into the working world, he now moves to Manhattan, where he will live 10 minutes walk from the office.
This Bangladesí-American, fond of reading, video games, escalation and piano, lands in a city that already knows for its family roots in Queens. Wall Street will mark a new chapter for a young man who seems to have no limits.
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