12-Year-Old From Hyderabad Bags Data Scientist Position In Software Company

A 12-year-old student from Hyderabad has set a new benchmark by getting selected as a data scientist at a software company.

Siddharth Srivastav Pilli, a class 7 student was selected for the position at a software company named Montaigne Smart Business Solutions, after being encouraged by his parents from an early age.

'I am 12 years old and I work as a data scientist in a software company named Montaigne Smart Business Solutions. I study in the 7th Class of Sri-Chaitanya Techno School. My biggest inspiration for going as a data scientist in a software company is Tanmay Bakshi because he got a job in Google at a very young age as a developer and is helping the world understand how beautiful the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution is,' Siddharth told ANI on Monday.

He is grateful to his father for getting him interested in coding from a very young age, 'The person who helped me a lot to get a job at this young age is my dad, he used to show me different biographies and taught me coding. Everything I am today is because of him.'

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