Aakash Thumaty is no ordinary 16-year old. This rising senior at Saratoga High School near San Jose is a self-taught developer who has coding skills that — he claims — rival most college engineering majors. “With the skills I’ve been able to develop on my own, I’ve got paid internships, beating out other college kids, because they don’t usually have the same skill-sets I do when it comes to iOS app development,” Thumaty told Business Insider.