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Isis Anchalee Highlight
Be able to put yourself out there and to find a community of people that you can resonate with.
About Isis
- Born and raised in Fresno, CA.
- Growing up, she spent a lot of time playing video games, coding, and reverse engineering her Neopets Guild websites, but she had no idea that software engineering was an actual career choice.
- As the youngest child in her family, there was a lot of pressure on her to go to medical school and become a doctor like all of her cousins.
- Started taking science classes at her local community college but struggled with figuring out what she was interested in and the financial burdens of going to college.
- Inspired by a friend who had taught himself to code, she dropped out of college and spent the next year teaching herself how to code.
- Attended a 12-week software engineering bootcamp from App Academy that enabled her to land her first job as a Platform Engineer at OneLogin, Inc.
- After appearing in a company ad campaign for OneLogin, she was the target of sexist comments for “being too pretty to be an engineer”—this led her to start the viral #ILookLikeAnEngineer campaign.
- She has since worked at Uber and Hustle as a Software Engineer—jokingly refers to these challenging experiences as the equivalent to the 4-year computer science degree she never received.
