Meet 13-year-old Joshua Agboola Who Emerged Africa’s Youngest Certified AWS Developer Associate

A teenager from Nigeria created history. Joshua Agboola, a 13-year-old programmer, is now Africa’s youngest qualified Amazon Web Services developer associate, according to NAN.

After a grueling two-hour exam that assessed his abilities and knowledge in developing, deploying, and troubleshooting on the AWS cloud platform, Master Agboola accomplished the accomplishment. Infrastructure, platforms, or software that are hosted by outside providers and made accessible to users online are referred to as cloud services.

In an interview given on Sunday in Lagos, Master Agboola stated that he was motivated to accomplish the feat by his great result on the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner test earlier in the year and his father’s support to take the next level of certification.

Master Agboola said though he had developed an interest in DevOps, the popular progression was to go for the Solutions Architect Associate certification.

“I was initially preparing for the Solutions Architect Associate certification which is the next certification most people take in their AWS cloud journey, but had a change of mind for a tougher developer associate certification due to encouragement from an older friend programmer,” said the child. The light bulb went up in my head, and I began studying the next day.”

Master Agboola added, ‘’The possibility of clinching the title of the youngest developer associate in the world, which is an equivalent of a world record in the cloud space, also became a strong motivation for me.” He prepared for the test by studying for about two to five hours daily for some six weeks. The 13-year-old internet sensation said his achievement in the cloud space was noticed by a tech company in Lagos offering to “provide me with further technical mentorship.”