GlobalLogic team gets the 2nd prize at Media Hack Weekend

On October 16-18, a large hackathon, Media Hack Weekend, was held in Kyiv. The competition was extremely intense as there were about 400 participants with more than 40 ideas in the hackathon.

Nevertheless, GlobalLogic’s experts Andriy Okhrimets and Ihor Dutchak took the 2nd place in this competition!

The project of Ihor and Andriy is called Picture Downloader. It is an application which allows to transfer files from flash drives to other storages very quickly and catalogize them as well. It is an essential tool for those who work with big quantities of files, e.g. photographers.

“The hackathon gave us a strong impulse: we had a prototype, but we would have probably been finishing it for a month or so, while here we did it in two days,”

Andriy says.

“I am also very impressed by the mentors who helped us gather a lot of information and advised a few features to implement. Without their help it would have been hard to achieve our result”.

Another project by a GlobalLogic team — Emma App — also reached the final stage of the competition. This app recognizes emotions of people having a video call and animates the background with thematic icons. At the hackathon the team demonstrated a real-time Skype call, animated by Emma App.

There were 4 GlobalLogic consultants among the mentors. They are Yuriy Koziy, Roman Cherednyk, Volodymyr Tsukur and Volodymyr Shymanskyy.

Volodymyr Tsukur was sincerely excited with the hackathon.

“These were totally crazy 48 hours, within which the teams created interesting projects. The diversity of ideas was impressive. I enjoyed working there, I learned a lot and got a cool experience”.

Source: GlobalLogic