My First Computer Science Class

at Shoreline Community College

Although I had already graduated with an A.A. degree in Business Adminstration in community college, I decided to stay for another year to try to pursue and see if I can transfer to a 4-year college as a Math major, as I enjoyed studying Calculus. One of the prerequisites was to finish a CS class that was equivalent to "Intro to Java" in my CC. Therefore, in my last 2 quarters in CC, I took a Python (prerequisite to the Java class) and Java class. I completely fell in love with the adrenaline of problem solving. I had never been more diligent in my academic career. But once I transferred to UC Berkeley as a non-STEM major, I thought that was the end of my programming journey.

The Discovery of My Love to Web Development

The first couple months of the pandemic

I was in my last semester at Berkeley and I had only a couple months left till graduation. I had an intention to be a recruiter, because I love helping and working with people. My ultimate goal was to become a tech recruiter. It was always my dream to work in tech even it was a non-tech position. But then I also remembered how much I miss programming and I had been proudly telling my friends at Berkeley that I used to learn programming.

Without many activities and mobilities during this time, I decided to do some research on programming and I discovered there was a thing called "Web Development" in the software engineering field. With some great online resources, like Codecademy and W3Schools, even though it was just HTML & CSS, I absolutely fell in love with that. I then made up my mind at that time that I would do my best to step my foot in this amazing field.

15 Weeks of Intensive Learning in Full-Stack Web Development

at Flatiron School

After some serious discussion with my parents and tons of research on what types of learning would be best for me to gain the practical skills, I decided to choose Flatiron School as the place where I would be provided with structured schedule and a network of peers and instructors. I was absolutely amazed how much we learned to make a web app from start to finish within 4 months. Although the program was very intensive and I definitely had my fair share of complaint, the hard work was all worth it. I fell in love with web development even more and I am so eager to learn more and make the websites even better.

Job Searching

Perfect Time to Gain Skills

We all know job searching is not an easy thing. It drains you mentally and physically. In order to distract myself with these exhausting feelings, I have been volunteering in a project to help developing their website working with the UI/UX team, as well as the backend team.

I recently participated in an All-Women Hackathon and won 2^nd place! The best part is that I gained the experience working with the UI/UX team and project managers! I admire their talents and I feel so lucky to be able to work with these amazing and talented women.

1st Software Engineer Job!

@Olive AI

The 8-month job search finally came to an end! I am currently working at a healthcare AI company based in Ohio, called Olive AI. I couldn't be more grateful with this opportunity. I am learning a lot from this job :)