Lucknow-boy Himanshu is Code Gladiators 2020 champion

“Everybody has that one significant achievement in life which he cites as his ‘biggest win’; for me winning Code Gladiators 2020 will be ‘that biggest win'”, said Himanshu Singh, the newly crowned coding champion of the world’s biggest coding competition – TechGig Code Gladiators 2020.

Himanshu Singh, who recently completed his degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, took over 2.52lakh+ coders and won the much-coveted champion’s crown.

Himanshu Singh won the 165-day-long competition in a nail-biting coding finale. The finale rounds for coding and theme hackathons were held on August 8 and 9, respectively. From August 9 to 13, leaders from the participating companies evaluated and judged the finalists to select the winners. TechGig Code Gladiators 2020 had four theme hackathons – namely, UiPath RPA hackathon, Times Internet Multi-Label Classification, Microsoft Hack on Azure and IBM Call for Climate Change. This year, the last two hackathons were specifically focussed at finding tech solutions to combat COVID-19.

Sanjay Goyal, Business Head, TimesJobs and TechGig said, “In March 2020, we sensed the COVID-19 situation could slip out of hands, and very quickly we decided to have a grand virtual conclusion to our mega hackathon. We were staring at a mammoth challenge to bring the grandeur of a worldwide recognised event to the virtual format and ensure that all our 2.52lakh+ participants get a slice of this event. I’m happy to share that we’ve been able to live up to all our expectations. We had a few international participants as well, which makes me think that maybe the virtual mode is better than the offline mode’.

Code Gladiators is the annual coding extravaganza hosted by TechGig and felicitated with Guinness World Record and Limca Book record for its massive participation. Code Gladiators celebrated its seventh edition this year, and the first one to have a virtual grand finale. TechGig Code Gladiators 2020 edition was announced in March and saw swarming participation by developers – both Indian and international – despite the COVID-19 situation.

International participants Ahmed Makki and Yurasik Ol participated at Code Gladiators for the first time. The coding champion took home Rs 3 lakh and the theme champions won Rs 1,50,000. Collectively, all winners took home prizes worth Rs 50 lakh. TNS

Coding Champions:

Himanshu Singh (1st)

Chaitanya A (1st Runner up)

Kalash Gupta (2nd Runner up)

Jyothi Bugatha (3rd Runner up)

Rahul Dugar (4th Runner up)

Code Diva Award Winner: Kruti Dharaiya

Coding Powerhouse:

1st Runner up CDK Global

2nd Runner up IG Infotech

Winner: Colruyt IT Consultancy