Team Panda won the Mozilla Coding challenge that was held yesterday during the Safaricom Engineering Summit.
Mozilla awarded Team Panda Sh50,000 while the First runners up, team decode M.J Cherono received Sh30,000.
The second runner up, Ruth Nduta received Sh20,000.
The other challenge was AWS IOT Hackathon that had three winners as well.
The second runners up, King’a was awarded Sh100,000 while the first runners up, Ma three pirii received Sh150,00.
The winner was Stima Mpesa, who took home Sh200,000.
The software developers and engineers delivered well presentations during the summit and actively took part in the two challenges.
“We must collaborate and stop all this mentality of solo working, its through collective efforts that we build this industry”, Ambassador. Proffessor Bitange Ndemo.
Safaricom Engineering Community was launched to promote an engineering culture, attract talent, and foster collaboration with other industry players.
The Summit was informed by the fast-changing fintech landscape, emerging technology trends and the need for homegrown software engineering talent.
“Safaricom intends to ensure that about 70-80 per cent of the technology we use is built in-house. Indeed, the Safaricom app and M-PESA app were developed and continue to be improved by our internal teams. Therefore, to ensure sustainability and even achieve more milestones, we must create a training ground and grow a big community of software engineers. I believe this summit will not only be a platform for collaboration in terms of tapping into fresh talent, but also, it will create an opportunity for us to showcase our technology capabilities on the global stage, making us a powerhouse for software engineering in the Silicon Savannah, not just as Safaricom but really as Kenya,” said Peter Ndegwa, CEO, Safaricom.
