November 11, 2021 Announcing the 2021 Topcoder Innovation Awards Finalists

Each year, we honor customers who are doing bold and exciting work at our annual Topcoder Innovation Awards event. We are thrilled to announce the 2021 Finalists across six categories—Program of the Year, Power User, Cutting Edge, Public Sector, Wipro Partnership, and Community Choice.

These bold companies and individuals leveraged Topcoder’s community and platform to innovate and push technology forward in 2021. We are excited to celebrate these leaders and toast the best and brightest work completed with Topcoder’s community this year.

Program of the Year

The best team and program executed at scale between Topcoder and an enterprise customer.

• HP
• Odyssey Program
• Telstra
• Woodside

Power User Award

A technology champion and Topcoder advocate that uses the Topcoder Platform to make development better, simpler, faster, etc.

• Bardhonia Harding, Innovapost
• Bhuvana Iyer, bp Castrol
• Luke Faeth, Wellmark
• Shaun Sadler, Woodside
• Shiva Gade & Hitendra Munjampally, Wipro

Cutting Edge Award

Highlights a company using the Topcoder Platform for the “project of the year,” which is downright cool, edgy, important, and disruptive.

• bp Castrol
• Ferguson
• Halliburton
• HP
• NASA
• P&G

Public Sector Award

Innovative Federal organizations making a tangible difference, internally and externally, by using the Topcoder Platform and Community.

• Innovapost
• NASA

Wipro Partnership Award

Honors outstanding people and companies leveraging the power of Topcoder and Wipro to achieve IT innovations.

• Gagandeep Ahuja
• Girish Ramiah
• Parmod Mehta
• Raveendra Rayanna
• Vivek Aggarwal
• Yogesh Sudhakar Maid

COMMUNITY CHOICE

Chosen by Topcoder members, in recognition of the coolest, most exciting projects on the platform this year.

• bp Castrol
• Bureau of Reclamation
• NASA
• Odyssey Program

Join us on November 18, 2021, at 4:00 pm EST as we announce the winners at the annual Topcoder Innovation Awards.