Tanneeru Leela, who took on more than 73,387 women technologists, won TechGig Geek Goddess 2019 final.
She has braved 375 women technologists at the four-hour-long, offline final code competition to win the title.
TechGig Geek Goddess is the annual, women-only coding competition from TechGig that brings together women programmers. In its fifth edition, TechGig Geek Goddess recorded the highest ever participation at 73,388+.
TechGig invited only 375 women technologists for the finale day hackathon on November 8, 2019, at the Four Seasons hotel in Bengaluru.
Nine winners were felicitated. Collectively, all winners took home prizes worth Rs 750,000.
TechGig Geek Goddess 2019 winners
Theme winners
Automation Anywhere Hackathon:
Winners – Sarika Patil, MrunalKotkar
Runners up – KatheejaBeevi, SornamThiyagarajan
AI/ML Hackathon by American Express:
Winners – Laisha Wadhwa
Runners up – JayathilagaRamajayam
Cloudify Everything Hackathon by Hexaware Technologies:
Winners – Arti Kumari & Navya Singh
Runners up – NandanaKudeti
Solution Hunters’ Hackathon by JetBrains:
Winners – Nithya Vasudevan
Runners up – Rajhrita Dutta
Coding winners –
TechGig Geek Goddess 2019 Champion: Tanneeru Leela
First runners up – Urvashi Rai
Second runners up – Snehlata Mishra
Third runners up – Anviti Srivastava
Fourth runners up – MridulChirania
Ruchika Panesar, vice president Global Services Group Technology and head of Technology – India, American Express, delivered the inaugural address.
Neeta Verma, director general of NIC delivered a special address at the event. Technology leaders from Goldman Sachs, Automation Anywhere, Wipro, Oracle, Cisco, Capgemini, TomTom, Xoriant, Cognizant, Capgemini, American Express and RBS participated during the event.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cloudify everything, Solution hunters’ hackathon, among others, were the themes of the event.
“We saw enthusiastic participation for niche themes as RPA, AI/ML with the registrations in the range of 4,000-6,000. This is proof that women technologists are raring to work and shine in the new-age technology streams,” said Sanjay Goyal, business head of TimesJobs and TechGig.
“This is the first time that I am a part of the TechGig Geek Goddess finale. I was amazed to see such young girls coding enthusiastically using the new-age technologies like Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Cloud and others,” Ram Awasthi, VP – Technology, Times Internet, said.