Eleven-year-old twin brothers Tanvir Hasan and Tafsir Hasan have officially joined "bdapps," the country's largest app store and developer platform, as its youngest developers.
The sixth-grade students from Shariatpur learned coding and app development over the past three years primarily by utilising free YouTube and internet resources without any formal institutional training.
Lacking a laptop or computer, the brothers practised coding on their mother's smartphone and successfully developed three applications.
Upon learning about their achievement through media reports, bdapps invited the twins to the corporate office of Robi Axiata PLC on August 13. During the visit, the brothers presented their apps, discussed their coding experiences, and shared their future goals with the bdapps team, leading to their official onboarding as the platform's youngest developers.
On August 19, a delegation from bdapps visited the twins' home in Shariatpur to conduct an interactive training session. The bdapps engineers provided guidance on app development, coding practices, and basic concepts of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-powered app creation.
To support their learning journey, bdapps presented the brothers with a new laptop, branded merchandise, and a full scholarship for an advanced app development course to receive formal coding education.
Tanvir and Tafsir, who previously earned merit scholarships in primary school, aspire to become software engineers. They aim to work with global technology and research organisations such as Microsoft or NASA, alongside plans to build an advanced AI-powered robot.
Commenting on the initiative, Robi Axiata Head of Marketing Mohammad Showkat Kader Chowdhury stated, "Limited resources are no barrier to talent development; all that is needed is proper guidance. We want youngsters like Tanvir and Tafsir to build their futures not only in app development but also in AI and emerging technologies."
The bdapps, a digital initiative of Robi Axiata PLC, currently hosts over 100,000 developers—nearly 25 percent of whom are women—and features a portfolio of more than 100,000 published applications.