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Opemipo Disu: 14-year-old developer who is building a search engine.

Opemipo Disu, 14, works with languages under web and software development . The teenager has been coding since when he was 11 when his dad used to support him in creating software applications. In 2019, Opemipo was nominated to be an IBM champion for Developers in 2020, and was later selected in January 2020 A 14-year-old boy identified as Opemipo Disu is a developer who works with languages under web and software development.

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Legit.ng gathers that the teenager, who is from Lagos, has been coding since when he was 11 when his dad used to support him in creating software applications. According to Opemipo, he always wanted to be a computer programmer since when he was around 5 years old.

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He said: “I had my first computer when I was 5 when I started learning Visual Basic, C# and Python as far back as 2016.”

The teenager started since when he was 11 when his dad used to support him in creating software applications. Photo credit: Opemipo Disu Source: UGC In July 2017, Opemipo became a full stack developer. So he started learning web technologies. He said he later joined tech communities and released projects after learning.

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In 2019, the teenager was nominated to be an IBM champion for Developers in 2020, then he was later selected in January 2020. Opemipo, who is also a developer at Taqua Laba, is currently building a search engine named TechMe.

Source: Legit.ng

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