#Noonies2022 Awards: The List of Winners in the Programming Category

Tech is both the future and the road that will get us there. Whether it’s an adjacent digital reality- that integrates seamlessly with a tangible one- or an app that tracks your heart rate, we depend more and more on innovative solutions to problems we didn’t even know we had.

The 2022 Noonies’ Programming Award Category, presented by Slogging,  puts the spotlight on the builders that improve our lives on a daily basis, the creative minds that help build these solutions, and by doing so light our path to an exciting future.

Here are the stats:

• 4,743 nominees.

• 371 Hacker Noon awards for 2022

• Across 5 award categories: Web3, Emerging Tech, Gaming, Internet Heroes, and Programming.

• And a monumental 143,156 votes cast over at noonies.tech

The  Programming category alone is announcing 110 winners. Let’s congratulate the winners!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- JAVA

Alejandro Duarte is a Software Engineer and published author currently working as a Developer Advocate at MariaDB Corporation.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- KUBERNETES

Aside from being a Content Strategist at Valasys Media, Priya Kumari is  a Psychic, Tarot Reader and Violet Flame Alchemist.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CODING

Ruslan Rakhmedov is a Technical Leader with a hobby of competitive programming.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SQL

Alejandro Duarte is a Software Engineer and published author currently working as a Developer Advocate at MariaDB Corporation.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DEVOPS

Aside from being a Content Strategist at Valasys Media, Priya Kumari is  a Psychic, Tarot Reader and Violet Flame Alchemist.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CODING-SKILLS

Alexey Shepelev is a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer with 2+ YoE in developing e-commerce, travel, and blockchain projects.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DATABASE

Alejandro Duarte is a Software Engineer and published author currently working as a Developer Advocate at MariaDB Corporation.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CICD

Viachaslau Matsukevich has 9+ years of professional experience as a Solutions architect, Tech lead, Cloud Architect and in DevOps.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CLOUD-COMPUTING

Congratulations to Uladzislau Baryshchyk, who loves coding in C# and Cloud Computing.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- AWS

Congratulations to Uladzislau Baryshchyk once again!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- MICROSERVICES

Oleg Melnic  brings over 19 years of experience in Software Development and a University degree in Computer Science.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- GOLANG

Yuda Prasetiya Haqqy  is a seasoned Software engineer Skilled in Go, Java, and JavaScript.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CSS

Stanley Lim is a backend software engineer at Snap Inc,  interested in distributed systems, web security, and building cool things.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PROGRAMMING

Sergei Shaikin is an Experienced Software Quality Assurance Tester at Libertex Group.

Coding Guru of 2022

Alexander Makeev is a Senior Software Engineer at Layermark.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- MONITORING

Stanley Lim is a backend software engineer at Snap Inc,  interested in distributed systems, web security, and building cool things.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- GITHUB

Anton Gubarev is a Software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on fault tolerant, distributed systems, PaaS, golang, HA.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DOCKER

Alejandro Duarte is a Software Engineer and published author, winning this year Noonies!

Tech Tutorial Teacher of the Year

Code basics will solve all of your coding issues!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- REACT

Yan Tsishko is a Skilled Front-End engineer with 7 years of experience in developing Web and SmartTV applications.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- FLUTTER

Kiran Beladiya is the Chief Technology Officer at Estatic Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- API

Veronika Vasileva is an amazing data engineer and rockstar python teacher, winning this year's Noonies.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CLEAN-CODE

Maximiliano Contieri is a Senior software engineer & agile lover who specializes in declarative designs and S.O.L.I.D.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- HOW-TO

Vladislav Gukasov is a Senior Software Engineer at Akma Trading.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- FUNCTIONAL-PROGRAMMING

Georgii Kliukovkin is a Staff Software Engineer at Lab49 with large hands-on experience on efficiently coding web apps.

Software Developer of The Year

Asides managing Developer Experience & Relations at StepZen, Roy Derks is a Tech Author, Speaker and Entrepreneur.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SOFTWARE-ARCHITECTURE

Sergey Golitsyn is a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ YoE building massively scalable systems both from scratch and diving into a codebase.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- KOTLIN

Fedor Yaremenko is a Senior Software Engineer at Ultimeta with over 10+ years of experience in software development with Java, Kotlin, and Spring.

Top Programming Guru

Hussein Nasser is a Principal Product Engineer at Esri.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- JAVASCRIPT

Amarachi Iheanacho is a Frontend Developer and Technical Writer.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- GIT

Alejandro Duarte is a Software Engineer and published author currently working as a Developer Advocate at MariaDB Corporation.

iOS Writer of the Year

Congratulations to Kiran Beladiya, the Chief Technology Officer at Estatic Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DATA-SCIENCE

Congratulations to Max Vidavsky , an avid data science writer currently studying Computer Science at Penn State University.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PRODUCT-DEVELOPMENT

Congratulations to Kiran Beladiya, the Chief Technology Officer at Estatic Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

Android Advocate of The Year

Congratulations to Kiran Beladiya once again!.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SOFTWARE-TESTING

Congrats to Sergei Shaikin, a software engineer with a love for backend testing!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- MONGODB

Alexey Shepelev, Senior Ruby on Rails Developer, wins this award!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- LINUX

The winner is Aleksandr Tabakov, on his way to enlightenment!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- TESTING

Congratulations to Zevi Reinitz, Head of Product Marketing at Livecycle!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DATA

The award goes to… Shaurya Uppal, a Data Scientist, applied scientist, research consultant, freelancer and startup builder.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DOTNET

Rahul Rai is the winner this year!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DEBUGGING

Congratulations to Artem Sutulov! He is a professional fullstack software engineer, currently working for REVOLUT as a software backend engineer.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- AUTHENTICATION

Rodrigo Kamada is the winner!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- FRONTEND

Congratulations to Amarachi Iheanacho, Frontend Developer And Technical Writer.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- AZURE

Congratulations to Viachaslau Matsukevich, a solutions architect with expertise in public cloud, kubernetes, PAAS and CI\CD.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- BACKEND

Artem Sutulov wins his second award!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SERVERLESS

Viachaslau Matsukevich is a solutions architect with expertise in public cloud, kubernetes, PAAS and CI\CD.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- QUALITY-ASSURANCE

Ruslan Muradov is on fire! Congratulations!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- COMPUTER-SCIENCE

Congratulations to Rishabh Agarwal!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- HEROKU

Maksim Kuznetsov, senior python developer, wins this award.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- REST-API

Congratulations to Alexey Shepelev!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- NPM

Congratulations to Idris Abdul-Lateef, Web/Blockchain Engineer, Technical Writer.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PERFORMANCE

Congratulations to Yura Abharian, a Senior Software Engineer.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- LOW-CODE

Aleksandr Zakharov, a passionate software engineer, wins this award.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ANGULAR

Rodrigo Kamada is the winner!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- AGILE

Congratulations to Alessandro Diaferia, a Software Engineering Manager at UTMOST, a Devops Advocate, passionate about Startups and continuous improvement pursuer

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- AGILE-SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

Congratulations to Alessandro Diaferia once again!

Open Source Writer of the Year

Hillary Nyakundi’s motto is "EVERY DAY IS A LEARNING DAY". She is a Growing Developer, Python and Open-Source and a Tech Enthusiasts & Writer.

Data Science Demon

Congratulations to Shaurya Uppal, a Data Scientist, a Problem Solving Expert and a Research Consultant.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- WEBSITE-DEVELOPMENT

Rodrigo Kamada brings home another award!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- OPTIMIZATION

Nikita Vasilev, a Data Engineer and a Python Tutor wins!

Master on the Edge of Computing

Congratulations to Viachaslau Matsukevich for another win!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING

Congratulations to Artem Sutulov !

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SCALING

Ralph Benko wins! Congratulations!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CONTAINERS

Fora Soft has been a pioneer in video software development since 2005. Congrats!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- TYPESCRIPT

Anatolii Kabanov, currently developing and enjoying life, and meanwhile winning Noonies.

Rawr for ROR

Alexander Makeev, a 6+ years Java Developer, crashed this award!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SWIFT

Pavel Plotnikov,  a senior IOS Software Engineer at BestDoctor has won the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- Swift. Swift is designed to function as the intuitive language for ios, ipados, macos, watchos, and tvos.

Most Authentic Developer Advocate of The Year

Aman Mittal has your back! Dev Advocate at DraftBit and ReactNative & Expo Enthusiast and now, the most authentic dev advocate of the year.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- NEURAL-NETWORKS

The crux of deep learning algorithms: Neural Networks is taken over by Dmitrii Khizbullin, a researcher / engineer with 10+ YoE in deep learning, computer vision, and autonomous driving.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- HTML

Build better websites with Alexey Shepelev, a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer who has won the HTML Contributor of the Year at HackerNoon.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- HACKING

Kali Linux Tutorials wins the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year: Hacking. They write tutorials on Cybersecurity and Bug Bounty on our website and HackerNoon.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- INFRASTRUCTURE

Build better websites with Alexey Shepelev, a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer who has won the HTML Contributor of the Year at HackerNoon.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- REDUX

Anatolii Kabanov takes the award for Contributor of the Year- Redux. Redux is an open source javascript library, commonly used with libraries like react or angular for building user interfaces.

No No No NodeJs

Anatolii Kabanov wins their second title for NodeJs. Congratulations X2!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ENCRYPTION

StevieSats is an eater of bitcoin stories, spinner of blockchain tales, and lastly the winner of the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- Encryption.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- REFACTORING

This award is for the highest quality refactoring stories on hackernoon and it goes to Abbey Perini. Abbey is a full-stack web developer, crafter, blogger, cosplayer, fiber artist, yoga teacher, and gamer.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ENGINEERING

Rishabh Agarwal is not only a Tech Enthusiast, he is also the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year for Engineering.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- RASPBERRY-PI

Chingiz Nazar loves Robotics and IoT. Nazar has provided us with the highest quality raspberry-pi stories for HackerNoon and has won the HackerNoon Contributor of the year award.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DEVELOPER-TOOLS

Alex Harris is a founder at Adadot.com, the world’s first fitness tracker for work, helping developers improve the way they work and feel. His contributions for HackerNoon will be remembered forever. Congratulations Alex!

Developer Defying Patriarchy (While Being an Awesome Developer)

Shanna Sullivan is a software Engineer at Mezmo and mentor for female tech-newbies and advocate of slaying the imposter syndrome dragon. Sullivan, the defier of patriarchy and the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year, Congratulations!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- NATURAL-LANGUAGE-PROCESSING

Liling Tan is a coder and a writer, with a goal of becoming a streamer someday. Tan is surely a step closer after winning HackerNoon Contributor of the Year for Natural Language Processing.

Bug Finder of the Year

Andrej Kovacevic is the HackerNoon Bug Finder of the Year, reporting bugs and significant vulnerabilities in a tech project. Andrej is also a dedicated writer and digital evangelist.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- OPEN-SOURCE

Sal Kimmich is focused on the open source software supply chain to build a better digital future for all of us. We can all appreciate Sal for his contributions and congratulate them for winning the HackerNoon Contributor of the year for Open Source.

AI Artist Award

Dall E is a trained neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language. 2022 has seen AI drawing software proliferate like no other and Dall E is one of them. Congratulations!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CODE-QUALITY

Whatever your metrics for judgment are, code quality stories on hackernoon provide pointers that ease your way. Sourcery helps make your Python code easier to read, understand, and work with through automatic refactoring suggestions. Let's congratulate them for being the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year for Code Quality!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- MOBILE

Tetiana Stoyko is the CTO and Co-Founder of @incorainc, where we can turn your ideas into products. Incorainc is THE website that caters to your short time span. Congratulations on being the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year for Mobile.

Pythonistas' Paradise

Vinchin Backup & Recovery is THE paradise for pythonistas.  They are a professional provider of data protection solutions for enterprises. Congrats on being the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ARCHITECTURE

George Andronchik is a full-stack engineer and architect. Michelangelo would be proud of Andronchik’s contribution and being the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year.

The Skynet Award

Unconcerned with a global takeover at the hands of AI, this award honors the writers, inventors, or companies that brought us closer to the singularity this year. OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity has won the Hackernoon’s Skynet Award.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- APPLICATION

Application is a set of instructions encoded in the language a computer understands. This was best reflected by SmartScanner, a Smart Web Vulnerability Scanner and their contributions to HackerNoon. Congratulations on winning the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year for Applications.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SCRUM

Scrum represents complex products, sustainability and adaptive solutions, in the constantly evolving work and technological landscape. Ryan Dawson, the principal data consultant at ThoughtWorks has proven themselves to be the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- Scrum.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ENGINEERING-MANAGEMENT

Jade Rubick is a human specialist and former VPE at New Relic, Gremlin. Jade wins the award  for the highest quality engineering-management stories on HackerNoon

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- FIREBASE

Congratulations to Snehal Narkar, a software engineer at Udgama for winning the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year for Firebase.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PROJECT-MANAGEMENT

Project managers are so meticulous that they remember all the details.  Jade Rubick is one of them and wins this award with grace!

The Calmer of Storms

Debugging is often the most grueling sweat of one’s brow but Sentry makes it easier by providing open-source error tracking to monitor and fix bugs and crashes anywhere in your application in real time.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- APP-DEVELOPMENT

Congratulations to Yellow Network, a Layer-3 peer-to-peer network to securely exchange liquidity & facilitate trading, clearing, settlement, and compliance.

SaaSiest CEO of the year

Ivan Zhao, SaaSiest Ceo of Notion, a project management software designed to help members of a company and individual users coordinate objectives, working processes and so forth is the winner!

Tip your Hat Tutorials - Best Tutorials

DigitalOcean Blog has some of the best tutorials on backend development, deployment, frameworks and much more.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CODE

Oscar Daum crashed this award!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DATA-ANALYSIS

Congratulations to Toloka, a global data labeling company.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM

Congratulations to Javin Paul, a Java programmer and blogger!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PHP

Surinder Rawat is an experienced Full-Stack Developer and CEO of BootesNull.

The Best Alternatives to Notepad++

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CSS3

We all need a Sensei to guide us through our learning journey and Anderson Osayerie has been our most favorite in CSS3 voyage. Congratulations!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SOFTWARE

Barrow Hamilton is a Chief Product Officer for Chargify and SaaSOptics. He is passionate about creating products that can maximize his customer’s ease.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CMS

Kat is a passionate writer interested in new technologies, a dog lover and a digital nomad.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DJANGO

Congratulations to Ismail Tlemcani who is a Software engineer, blogger, lifelong learner with an added badge to his armor as this year’s DJANGO master .

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- INFORMATION-SECURITY

Congratulations to jasonhiggins for keeping us well informed on how to stay safe in the virtual world

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- LARAVEL

To the artisan that made learning Laravel easier for all of us. Congratulations Adam Schmideg!