Born in China and raised in Seattle, Yan Fan graduated from Dartmouth College with degrees in Economics and Arabic. After graduation, Fan worked at an agri-commodities trading firm in Singapore before changing her career to tech. Quitting trading, Fan moved to San Francisco and became a software engineer at Ayasdi, a leading Silicon Valley machine learning startup. After co-founding a coding bootcamp in Jordan, Fan started Code Chrysalis in Tokyo in 2017.