There's some backstory in his Google Code-In article (Summer of Code for younger students) https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/11/stories-from-google-code-in

There's some backstory in his Google Code-In article (Summer of Code for younger students) https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/11/stories-from-google-code-in-2015.html https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/11/stories-from-googl... > a student from Uruguay who worked with Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is the organization behind Sugar, the operating system for the [One Laptop per Child] XO-1 which the Uruguayan government has distributed to public primary schools. The XO-1 was Ezequiel’s first computer. > Ezequiel’s curiosity in computer science was piqued when a technician came to his school to solve a simple bug that was affecting most XO’s. The technician used the command line which, up to that point, Ezequiel thought was useless. Realizing that the command line offered him a lot of power, Ezequiel began his exploration.