From Finance to Tech: How Mai Landed Her Software Engineering Role After Flatiron School

Mai Vang is a Flatiron School graduate who made the leap from political science and finance to software engineering. After graduating from Flatiron School in 2022, she faced a tough job market and treated the job search like a full-time job – networking, building projects, and refining her skills. That determination paid off. Today, Mai is a software engineer at Maizeee, where she improves performance and builds scalable UI components. Mai shares how Flatiron School prepared her for the real world of tech, the projects that helped her land her first role, and how she’s staying ahead of the curve by diving into AI.