They wanted me to be a doctor and so that’s what I thought I wanted to do. And I ended up going to school at UCSD because my parents wanted me to be close to home. So I grew up in San Diego, born in New York but moved over when I was really young. How did you go from being a pre-med undergrad to getting into computers? That serves as a lesson for other people who might be interested in a coding career and the bootcamp itself.Īs Shamayel moves on to a new job at a cool Silicon Valley drone startup, we spoke with her about getting started as a student, the most important challenges she faced, and the importance of LGBTQ diversity in the tech industry. So how did she do it? Shamayel says she wasn’t particularly different or special but that she worked really hard and cared about what she was doing. More than a year later, Shamayel ended up as one of the heads of the curriculum itself. When she had to make a decision, she ended up picking App Academy, the one bootcamp with the best reviews and toughest curriculum. Within a few months, she had multiple offers. So she decided to return to her early love of computers and applied to coding bootcamps in the area. She enjoyed the work but was living paycheck-to-paycheck and knew she had to look for a higher-paying profession to comfortably afford the rent. Shamayel Daoud was a science tutor for kids in San Francisco a few years ago when she had a realization: This city is way too expensive for me.
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