Brazilians Bruno Campos Santos, (1st place); Igor de Moura Ventorim (2nd place); Gustavo Luiz de Quadra (3rd place); and Yuri Thomas Pinheiro Nunes (5th place) are among the winners of the Behind the Code 2021 Marathon, after solving the final challenge of the competition with great precision and accuracy. The online challenge, proposed by IBM, was focused on agricultural issues in the region, a sector that, according to the World Bank, accounts for 5% to 18% of the GDP of 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Using APIs and data from The Weather Company, the developers created a virtual assistant called WeatherBOT and implemented it using Red Hat OpenShift in less than four hours. The Brazilians received the title of Master Developer in the region and additional vouchers, in addition to the award previously granted by IT Mídia to the Top 100 of the competition, among others.
Since 2019, the competition has been attended by over 100,000 developers from Latin America
During the year of the Marathon, participants received several awards, such as the possibility to participate in application developer positions for IBM Consulting in Latin America, dollar vouchers offered by strategic partners of the Marathon and Digital House scholarships for Digital Marketing courses, Data Analytics, Full Stack Web Programming and Data Science.
The Marathon was created to train people and close the technology talent gap in Latin America. The initiative was carried out in partnership with IT Mídia and had the support of partners such as Algar Tech, Bantotal, GFT, Quanam and SONDA, who proposed real business challenges in areas such as open banking, automation, chatbots, health monitoring and analytics in churn, that could be solved using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Science, all available in the IBM Cloud.
Since 2019, the competition has been attended by more than 100,000 developers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, who have written over 300,000 lines of code.
