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Teen prodigy leaves SpaceX for Wall Street
Gulf News
|August 22, 2025
Bangladeshi-American takes his precocious talent to Citadel Securities
t just 16 years old, Kairan Quazi — once a college-level wiz-kid — is trading Starlink satellites for Wall Street algorithms.
At the age of 14, the Bangladeshi-American prodigy turned heads in 2023, as the youngest-ever graduate of Santa Clara University, earning a degree in computer science and engineering.
Stint at SpaceX
Soon after, he joined Elon Musk’s SpaceX to help build production-critical software for Starlink, fine-tuning satellite beam targeting to bring fast, reliable internet to millions.
Now, Kairan is making headlines again — this time exchanging rockets for financial markets.
He’s joining Citadel Securities in New York as a quantitative developer, where he’ll be working on the firm’s global trading infrastructure, as per Business Insider.
Why did he make the leap?
This story is from the August 22, 2025 edition of Gulf News.
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