However, not long after she began working in commodities trading, her commitment to the road well-traveled begin to wane. Soon after graduation, she worked as a commodities analyst at Bunge Limited, an agribusiness company established in the 19th century and based in White Plains, NY. Initially, she charted a fairly traditional course for someone so driven: Ivy League for university followed by the finance industry for work.įan attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where she majored in economics and Arabic, with a minor in Chinese literature. Goal-oriented and ambitious from an early age, Fan was born in Xiamen, a city in Fujian Province, in southeastern China. When she was three years old, her family relocated to the United Sates and settled in Seattle, WA. Pursuing a career in technology was not something that Fan ever imagined-despite harboring ambitions, dating back to high school, of starting her own company. “We want to show them that it is absolutely possible to move from where they are, and that they are well prepared for the future.” “We’re really flattered that people take our course, and that they feel it empowers them to shift their career in a certain direction. In the two years since it was founded, the school has seen some 150 students graduate from its programs, many entering high-paying tech jobs in the capital.įor Fan, that is justification enough for the long hours, late nights, and six-day weeks that marked their first year of operations.
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With Fan as chief technology officer and Munidasa as chief executive officer, Code Chrysalis is transforming the tech industry in Tokyo. Three years later, she joined forces with engineer and business executive Kani Munidasa to establish Code Chrysalis. In 2014, she made the leap from a comfortable job in finance to one in software development-and did so within months. I would always have something to fall back on.”įan knows a thing or two about mid-career change, and switching from a non-technical field to a technical one. “If I didn’t like where I was working, or if I took a risk and tried something new, it gave me the confidence to know I’d be okay.
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“Learning how to code and becoming a software engineer gave me a kind of freedom and confidence that I never had before,” said Yan Fan, co-founder of Code Chrysalis, a Tokyo-based coding boot camp with roots in Silicon Valley.