Microsoft Certified Professional · G940-4858

Syeda Anaya
Farrukh

Recognised by Microsoft as the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional — passing Exam 70-773: Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R at the age of 5.

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Certified
15 October 2018
Based in
Greater Melbourne, AU
School
Alamanda K9 College

The achievement

A Microsoft certification, at age five.

On 15 October 2018, Syeda Anaya sat — and passed — Microsoft’s Exam 70-773: Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R, a professional-grade certification in distributed analytics with Microsoft R Server.

Exam 70-773

Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R — the same exam taken by data engineers and analysts working on production-scale R workloads.

  • Date of achievement15 October 2018
  • Certification numberG940-4858
  • Test providerPearson VUE
  • Test centreLogitrain, West Melbourne
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Confirmed by Microsoft

“Congratulations on passing Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R… we are thrilled for you and delighted to confirm that you are, to the best of our knowledge, the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional.”

Allie Ello · Microsoft Worldwide Learning
cc: Elizabeth Greene, Director of Corporate Communications, Microsoft Australia

Signed by the CEO

The Microsoft Certified Professional certificate carries the signature of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Part No. X18-83700

The certificate

The proof, in full.

The official Microsoft Certified Professional certificate, signed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Microsoft Certified Professional certificate awarded to Syeda Anaya Farrukh on 15 October 2018, certification number G940-4858, signed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Microsoft Certified Professional · Issued 15 October 2018 · Cert # G940-4858
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The journey

From age three to a global record.

A short timeline of how the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional came to be.

  1. 3

    Age 3 · First lines of Microsoft R

    Started exploring Microsoft R — a statistical programming language used for large-scale data analysis — and built early personal projects.

  2. 5

    Sep–Oct 2018 · First paid project

    Engaged by ASIT Solutions as a part-time Software Programmer to build the Inventory module of their School Management System in Microsoft R — including interface design, coding, debugging and a live dashboard.

  3. 5

    15 Oct 2018 · Microsoft Certified Professional

    Sat Exam 70-773 (Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R) at the Pearson VUE test centre in West Melbourne — and passed.

  4. 5

    Nov 2018 · Microsoft confirms a world record

    Microsoft Worldwide Learning officially confirms Anaya as the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, to the best of their knowledge. Microsoft Australia’s Director of Corporate Communications follows up to arrange a story.

  5. 5

    Late 2018 · Microsoft US & Australia call

    Joined a joint video call with Microsoft US and Microsoft Australia to share her story and what she planned to do next in STEM.

  6. 12

    2021–present · Building with AI

    For the past five years, focused on Artificial Intelligence — freelancing with Dynxsoft on multiple Agentic AI and Generative AI projects.

Work

Selected programming projects.

From a first paid Microsoft R engagement at age 5 to current freelance AI work.

2021 – present

Agentic AI & Generative AI projects

Dynxsoft · Freelance AI Engineer

For the past five years, focused on Artificial Intelligence — partnering with Dynxsoft as a freelancer to deliver multiple Agentic AI and Generative AI projects.

  • Multiple Agentic AI engagements end-to-end
  • Generative AI builds across diverse use-cases
  • Ongoing freelance partnership with Dynxsoft
  • Agentic AI
  • Generative AI
  • LLMs

2021

Touchless User Interfaces — Melbourne Airport

AI Engineer

With Covid-19 making travellers wary of shared touch screens, designed and delivered hand-gesture and voice-controlled touchless screens for Melbourne Airport.

  • Used Intel RealSense depth cameras and deep learning to detect hand gestures
  • Built voice-command recognition with the Microsoft Speech SDK and LUIS language-understanding models
  • Set up Azure DevOps CI/CD and release pipelines for the system
  • Deep Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Intel RealSense
  • Microsoft Speech SDK
  • LUIS
  • Azure DevOps

11 Sep – 12 Oct 2018

School Management System — Inventory Module

ASIT Solutions · Software Programmer (part-time, age 5)

First paid programming project. Designed and built the inventory module of ASIT’s School Management System in Microsoft R.

  • Designed the system interface for the inventory module
  • Wrote the application code and resolved bugs through to delivery
  • Built a live dashboard for the inventory module in Microsoft R
  • Microsoft R

Engagement confirmed in writing by Asif Ahmed, HR Manager, ASIT Solutions.

Press & recognition

Recognised by Microsoft, twice.

2 November 2018

Microsoft Worldwide Learning

Allie Ello (Microsoft Worldwide Learning) writes to officially confirm Anaya as the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, on behalf of Microsoft.

9 November 2018

Microsoft Australia

Elizabeth Greene, Director of Corporate Communications at Microsoft Australia, reaches out to share Anaya’s story — followed by a joint Microsoft US & Australia video call.

Education

Alamanda K9 College

Greater Melbourne, Australia · 2018 – present

Contact

Get in touch.

For media enquiries, speaking opportunities and collaborations.

Email [email protected] Phone +61 426 522 942 LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/syeda-anaya
Location Greater Melbourne, Australia