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Navigating the Japanese Software Development Space
Yan Fan: Hi, my name is Yan Fan. I am a co-founder and co-CEO of Code Chrysalis.
We do software engineering training for both individuals and large enterprises. We have a mission here in Japan to make Japan a software leader. And it is through both helping train individuals and then also helping transform companies that we can better prepare this country for the future, and in particular for a more diverse future. Code Chrysalis started as just my co-founder and I, we were two people with this crazy idea of bringing Silicon Valley standards to Japan.
We noticed was there were kind of two different tiers of junior engineers. As a junior software engineer in Silicon Valley, you are expected to know how to code, and the only thing that makes you a junior is the lack of work experience. In Japan, a junior software engineer, there’s not often an expectation that they know anything. And so what we wanted to do was bring that expectation [of coding knowledge] here to Japan and help people make a quality career transition.
We saw that there were a lot more good software engineering jobs out there where you could have a career, you could contribute, and you could help build out a product. Whereas in the past, a lot of software engineering jobs were a lot more low-paid, kind of just like a coding monkey. You know, writing embedded software, but not doing much building.
We were seeing more of that happening in Japan and also a dearth of talent here because talent didn’t usually go into computer programing. It went into other things. So we came here initially to help bridge that gap. Some people wanted tech jobs and there were these tech jobs that paid much more than the typical kind of the traditional amount that you would see. So we wanted to be able to train those people up to getting these nicer jobs.
Changing Goals and Perspectives
That eventually led us into understanding a lot more about this industry, about Japan and the software industry, and realizing that we could do a bit more and that this wasn’t just on an individual level, but this was something systemic. And because it was systemic, a big part of that system is companies. So if we really wanted to make a difference, we would need to figure out how to help companies skill up their employees.
So a few years ago, we started the enterprise training portion of our business where we go into companies, understand their needs, and teach people how to code. That’s been the transition that my company has gone through and throughout it, figuring out ways that we can help transform Japan, help transform companies, and help, of course, transform the actual people.