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IIT Delhi Student Wins Coveted TCS CodeVita Season 10

IIT Delhi Student Wins Coveted TCS CodeVita Season 10

Tata Consultancy Services’ Flagship Coding Contest Saw Over 100,000 Participants from Across the World Battle it Out for Top Honors

MUMBAI, May 30, 2022: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), announced the winners of Season 10 of its flagship global coding contest, TCS CodeVita, at a virtual grand finale.

CodeVita, holder of the Guinness World Records™ title as the world’s largest computer programming competition, has been inspiring students across the world to build and test their coding expertise for the past 10 years. The contest promotes programming as a sport and encourages participants to pit their skills against each other and solve intriguing real-life challenges.

Season 10 saw participation by over 100,000 students from 87 countries and one of the most competitive finales in the contest’s history. The top 3 coders of TCS CodeVita Season 10 are:

Rank

Name

College name

Country

Winner

Kalash Gupta

IIT Delhi

India

First Runner Up

Mauricio Andres Cari Leal

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Chile

Second Runner Up

Jeffrey Ho

National Tsing Hua University

Taiwan

 

The winner claimed the grand prize of $10,000, while the first and the second runners-up were awarded $7,000 and $3,000 respectively. In a first, the third runner up, Michal Stanik from Czech Republic, was also recognized by TCS with a prize of $1,000. Moreover, all four winners earned an internship opportunity with TCS’ Research & Innovation organization. Registration for Season 11 of TCS CodeVita will commence soon.

“Season 10 of CodeVita has been remarkable in harnessing the passion for coding among the youth. We were thrilled to see how the four finalists solved all the 10 problems, which has never happened before. I am happy to see CodeVita is encouraging youngsters to write good code and apply it to solve challenging problems," said K Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, TCS.

Winner Kalash Gupta said, Thank you so much. it’s unbelievable! When I started with the contest, I never thought I would even be in the top 3 but this is a very humbling experience. I’m very excited about the prize money. Initially I was not confident, as I took longer than I expected to solve the first problem. But as I progressed, solving some of the other problems, I gained more confidence over my final standing, and I was confident that I would be in the top 3.”

 

 

About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 592,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $25.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. TCS' proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit www.tcs.com

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