Career-changer frontend engineer who reached Intermediate at Operto in Vancouver
From Japan dispatch web design and self-taught skills through CICCC/co-op, Marie secured Canadian engineering work in the pandemic and moved to Intermediate at Operto Guest Technologies within ~6 months.
フロントエンドエンジニア · Vancouver · Operto Guest Technologies
Profile
Marie is a frontend engineer in Vancouver at Operto Guest Technologies (travel-industry IT tools). Attributes: career changer (未経験) relative to professional engineering; college route.
Current role
Intermediate frontend engineer at Operto Guest Technologies after changing jobs roughly six months into the first Canadian role.
Japan experience
Career changer into engineering. Prior Japan work as a temporary/dispatch web designer with simple assignments; engineering skills largely self-taught. Also took paid work via COS (Frog partner) and Japanese clients to build résumé experience before/during the Canada search. Released a Product Hunt app; found paid history more persuasive than the launch alone during pandemic hiring.
Path to Canada / North America
Graduated CICCC, started work on co-op, then switched to working holiday when co-op ended (~2 years work authorization combined). Job search coincided with COVID and was prolonged (~1 year referenced). First Canadian role sourced via LinkedIn inbound matching UI-developer needs; small team where she became the main React implementer after a part-time senior left. Changed jobs via LinkedIn after applying to a few roles (2–3 applications mentioned for the move).
Outcome
First local engineering job, then Intermediate role at Operto Guest Technologies within about six months of starting work. Months-to-first-offer not stated in attributes.
Based on Frog’s Japanese-language interview. English summary for scanning (partners / employers). Original interview (Japanese)