
Isis Anchalee
Software Engineer
Hustle
San Francisco, CA USA
“Being able to put yourself out there and to find a community of people that you can resonate with, it makes going through the challenging bits a lot nicer.”
Hustle
San Francisco, CA USA
“Being able to put yourself out there and to find a community of people that you can resonate with, it makes going through the challenging bits a lot nicer.”
Software Engineer
I build software to empower political campaigns & organizations to communicate with their audiences.
Solving bugs, building new features, laughing with coworkers, eating lunch and enjoying matcha tea with boba.
Good communication - be able to explain technical concepts to non-technical people, and write self-documenting code that is easy to read/follow/build on top of.
Here's the first step for high school students
Learn to code. Teach yourself, go to school, or do a bootcamp. Just make sure to do your research and find the right option that works for you. Start as early as you can!
"If you don't know what to do with your life, then just be a doctor like the rest of your family."
I struggled to pay for community college and I just wasn't willing to spend even more money and go into debt studying something that I wasn't really passionate about. I decided to continue taking classes at my community college until I figured out what I liked. Once I found software engineering, I realized I liked it and that I could get a good job without having to go to school.
I couldn't afford college, so I started off by going to community college. I even struggled to afford that.
I was the target of very sexist comments after appearing in an ad campaign for OneLogin. People just didn't believe that I was an engineer because I was "too pretty".
I was raised by a single mother. I watched her struggle, but she taught me the value of hard work.