After creating more than 10 System Platforms for only two years of operation in the Philippines, Multisys Technologies Corporation, the country’s provider of software development and systems solutions, is giving back to Filipinos — organizing clash of codes aimed at empowering the Filipino IT communities.
Multisys Clash of Codes an avenue to show off coding skills.
As the country is heading to digital trajectory, Multisys Clash of Codes is a perfect platform for Filipino IT community to show-off their ingenuity in the field of information technology (IT) particularly in software engineering, coding and programming and designing sophisticated software that will improve the countries business processes.
Multisys Clash of Codes is participated by several Filipino front-end developers, back-end developers, iOS & Android developers, UI & UX designers, and full stack developers, where winners was announced by its own CEO and President David L. Almirol, Jr. on 30 September 2018.
Here are the winning keyboard warriors and their cash prize for the Multisys Clash of Codes Group Category:
- Champion — Batibot (Rodette Pedro, Jayson Uy, and Jr. Respino) , who took the Php100,000 top prize.
- Second Place — Foxtrot (Aldrin Bautista, Niño Eclarin, and Raven Lagrinas), they got Php50,000.
- Third Place — Pocket Coder (McJover P. Dacanay, Marjorie L. Tiozon, and Danis Gabriel M. de Perio), they received P30,000.
Winners For Multisys Clash of Codes Individual Category:
- Champion — Alexie Madolid
- Second Place — Mark Erwin Villarina
- Third Place — Trinmar Boado
According to Almirol, Multisys Clash of Codes is an excellent platform to empower the country’s IT professionals by providing them a venue to grow their innate talent.
“Having created Php4-billion worth of system platforms in only two years, Multisys believes in the potential of the Filipino IT community. We want to empower local IT professionals and have them share in our successes by giving them an opportunity to show of their skills that investors value highly,” Almirol added.
He said the participants are not amateurs, nor fresh graduates. “These are the elites of the Philippine IT industry. Many of them have long been in their respective field,” Almirol said in an exclusive interview.
Winners of the competition might just work for Multisys.
“This is the first time, but we are planning to do it twice a year. We also need to double or triple our team because we are accepting a lot of contracts this year and next year, but we don’t need to hire them if they want to do freelance, or they want to be their own group,” he said.
Around 300 IT professionals — programmers, designers, and coders — answered the challenge of Multisys for the Clash of Codes staged at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City.
Team members ranged from two to five members.
Almirol cited the importance of working together and keeping IT professionals sharp and on their toes always.
Facebook hacking came into the conversation
“This is the reason why we need to join forces. It’s not just about creating something. It’s also about protecting something.
“Once you create something, you also have to make it sure that the creation should be protected as well. This is why every time we launch a project, we hack ourselves first,” the Multisys CEO said.
He said “cack ourselves” means checking the software first for any vulnerabilities that must be solved before it goes live.
Multisys organized the Clash of Codes competition as an avenue for the IT community to show off their ingenuity and push the limits of their work as demand for sophisticated business processes continue to rise.
The competition, which Almirol said would be held every two years moving forward, put to the spotlight the talents of Filipinos in the IT industry to push further a border-less economy.
Multisys asked the participants to achieve the competition’s objective as shown in the Event’s Mechanics:
- Create an e-commerce system with registration;
- Consume the SMS API to send SMS notification after successful registration;
- Consume the Billers API to access more than 1,800 billers (electricity, water, cable, etc.);
- Consume the Payment Gateway Interface (PGI) API to access more than 30,000 payment channels (Bayad Center, Banks, Online Banking); and,
- A reference number will be provided once the PGI API has been successfully integrated. You may test this reference number to the kiosk machines provided in the event.
Alimirol said his company, which needs more IT professionals as business is growing robustly, will not own the winning apps.
“The plan is to check for startups, maybe a group that is really good in creating something; so we will be able to finance them, nurture them, and give them the avenue if they need training. This is a contest to see who are the teams that are passionate in creating programs,” he continued.
Multisys is a leading one-stop integrated software development and systems solutions provider in the Philippines. It’s partner-built applications providing system solutions for the most pressing challenges facing today’s companies are most known in the IT industry.
Clash of Codes is the ultimate test of programming skill, a one-day competition open to coders of any level and experience. Participants will be given a few hours to create a system that should solve a problem given on event day, and present this solution to the Clash of Codes panel of judges. (EKU)
