The Department of IEEE at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur conducted HackTrix, a three day international virtual hackathon with an add-on conference recently. Students chose from eight diverse tracks to pit against each other as they revolutionised their chosen field. The event turned out to be the perfect place for participants to foster their learning skills. The flagship hackathon was presided by leaders and veterans of their respective fields. Participants were from Australia, Germany, USA, Canada, Russia, Turkey, Mexico among others. With a vision to coordinate splendid mentalities, IEEE SRM Student Branch constantly tries to incorporate Discussion, Demonstration & Development, and encourage technological advances in new arenas and promote application-based knowledge.
Winners of this mega event were TRIX4; Commit Cats for first runners up; second runners up went to Code Linguists and an honorary mention was awarded to Ctrl-Alt-Elite.
Judges include Alon Grinshpoon, CEO and founder of echoAR; Soham Dixit, Alumni of SRMIST and winner of Smart India Hackathon 2018 and Airbus Hackathon (Aerothon 2019) and Akshay Saini, Founder & CEO of Boiling News. Saini has been with Paytm as an SDE and currently with Uber. Satya Iyengar and Devasheesh Saxena, Principal Architect and Global Delivery Leader for Digital Business for QuEST Global also graced the panel.
The mentor’s panel was graced by Ayon Roy who has been a mentor in 70+ hackathons; SDE1 at Hackerrank, Aditya Agarwal, TR Rohith who is a Software Engineering Intern at Bajaj Health, Jahanavi Bhagat, a mentor at Tesseract Coding and Praveen Kumar Puroshattam an ex-Microsoft MVP. This is not all. Sahil Rahman, a mentor at Future Blink and Anustup Mukherjee who is a mentor from Dark Horsealong with the international names Bormotov Dmitrii who is a mentor from Flow Health and Michael Pautav, mentor from Deem incorporated were also present.
From the IEEE SRM SB Web Dev domain, Ahmed Mawia, Harsh Gour and Shaurya Bhandari graced the occasion as mentors. Mawia is a full stack developer with understanding of software development concepts. He is currently experimenting with blockchain technology and the decentralised web. He was the winner of VIT Hackathon held in 2020 and was the Web Dev Leader at IEEE SRM SB. He is also an SDE Intern at Fibonalabs and got selected as a mentor for Girlscript Summer of Code 2021. While, on the other hand, Gour is an experienced developer and a SD Intern with FibonaLabs and the Web Development Lead for IEEE SRM SB.
