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6/26/2026
From Financial Services to Full-Stack Dev: My First 3 Months

From Financial Services to Full-Stack Dev: My First 3 Months

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Software engineer transitions from 13 years in financial services (Discover, Bread Financial) to full-stack development via a 3-month bootcamp. Shipped concrete projects: React e-commerce SPA, Python CLI task manager, multi-page event site, and food landing page. Finance skills (data analysis for debugging, process optimization for clean code, compliance documentation) transfer directly to software engineering.

  • •13-year finance career → 3-month bootcamp → full-stack developer
  • •Shipped 4 projects: React SPA, Python CLI, responsive sites with verified badges
  • •Finance skills (data analysis, process optimization, documentation) transfer to software engineering

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