2nd Open European Championship for Web and Mobile Specialists

2^nd Open European Championship for Web and Mobile specialists

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For Whom are IT Challenges?

For those, who wants to try their skills in IT fields by competing with others in limited timeframes on challenging tasks. There are two categories: junior and middle/senior and two specializations: web and mobile. Choose your category and nomination accodingly.
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Where is it going to be?

IT Challenges is held online. So, people all over the globe can participate directly from a favorite working place. The finalists are invited to Poland, where the offline part will be held - the Final.
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How to Start?

To participate, just press Accept Challenge and sign up during the period of Registration (its not visible until registration is active). At this stage, participants note nomination, category and information about them. After signing up, competitors receive the confirmational email.
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Qualify stage

All registered participants receive a link to the task in their profiles according to the selected nomination and category. The tasks are prepared by highly qualified and experienced professionals - the Jury board. The solutions have to be done within a given period.
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Results stage

Participants receive the results of performed work. The most skilled, TOP specialists, get the opportunity to compete with the strongest opponents in their field in Grand Final. All competitors are getting a feedback from the Jury, which helps to upgrade participant's level.
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Final stage

The last stage, where get the strongest, smartest and skilled specialists - finalists - is offline and is held in Krakow, Poland. TOP perfomers of each nomination and category are competing side by side at one place during the challenging time. Next day the Jury announce the lucky winners (1st, 2nd and 3d place) and give feedbacks. After the intensive work it's a hight time for chilling, meeting new people, exchanging the experience, and off course, a party!
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More questions?

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News

June 10

IT Challenges 2017 finished

IT Challenges #2 is over officially. Pictures from both days of the Final - first day, second day. Thank you everybody who made this possible and be prepared for the next IT Challenges in spring 2018!
Apr 15

Qualification round ended

Qualification ended, many thanks for those who participated. Cross your fingers and wait for the results! You'll get an email if you been selected for the Final competition.
Apr 06

JetBrains becomes prize partner

We are happy to announce that JetBrains - well-known developer of different tools and IDEs, which makes process of development faster and easier - supports IT Challenges and will award winners with licenses for their products.
Apr 03

Web Summit becomes prize partner

We are happy to announce that Web Summit - The largest tech conference in the world - supports IT Challenges and will award all the winners (1st places) with tickets to Web Summit conference in Lisbon 2017.
Mar 29

Qualification started

Today Qualification round started. To participate - log into your account and under dropdown menu download your task. Once done - submit it to us using the same dropdown menu.

The last day to submit your task is 14th of April, 23:59 (CET).
Feb 20

Registration started

We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2^nd Open European Championship - IT Challenges - is officially started.

Register or activate previous account till 29th of March in order to participate in the competition.
Feb 7

KPT is our hosting partner

The same as last year - Krakowski Park Technologiczny (Krakow Technopark) is our general partner, which means that our final will be in their perfect space. Check last year photos here - first day, second day.
Feb 6

Two weeks before registration start

Registration starts very soon, please check our calendar for dates.

Calendar

Let the battle begin.

feb 20 - mar 28

registration

The first step for participation. Competitors receive the email with confirmation

mar 29 - apr 14

Qualify

The challenge begins! Participants receive the tasks.

apr 28

results

The moment of truth. Participants get the results of the submitted works.

may 27-28

final, Krakow

Its time to show everything you have! Get to final in Krakow and be the winner!

Partners

General Partner

Partners

Prize Partners

Info Partners

Jury

Mariusz Gil

Back-end, Poland

Co-owner at Source Ministry

Architect and CTO focused on high performance and scalable web applications. Trainer, consulant and conference speaker. He has been working for several companies on PHP projects for millions of active users, from biggest social network and instant-messaging software in Poland to multi-billion PV content personalization and discovery platform. Mariusz is also member of 4Developers and PHPcon Programme Commitees and one of core members behind PHPers, open meetups for PHP developers in many cities in Poland. Big-data enthustiast and data-sciencist wannabe. After hours, biker and rock guitarist.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mariuszgil
Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/profile/mariuszgil/
Linkedin: http://pl.linkedin.com/in/mariuszgil/en

Łukasz Szymański

Back-end, Poland

Development Team Lead at OLX

Experienced programmer and a people leader managing the monetization team responsible for effective implementation of all new payment-related functionalities in OLX - a global marketplace operating in 40 countries.

More than once he’s proven his capabilities facing the challenges of his daily work. Łukasz is aware of the dynamic character of the business.

Updates and new solutions come up every day and he is not afraid to put them to a test and make use of them when needed. He is an active participant of numerous conferences and lectures, always happy to share knowledge and experience.

Anna Kokhan

Design, Germany

Senior UI/UX Designer at Bonial

Creative-minded designer, passionate about the interactions and trends but also loves transferring complex solutions into a clear UX design. Currently works as a Senior UI/UX Designer at Bonial.com in Berlin.

Anna has 5 years of experience of designing projects for the agencies and startups from all over the world.

Personal website: annakokhan.com

Tomasz Chrostek

Design, Poland

Graphic Designer at BrightMedia

Tomasz is a Graphic Designer based in Krakow with 8 years of experience. Currently working for BrightMedia. Mainly specializing in Web Design but also interested in Branding and Digital Design. He’s a huge fan of minimalism.

Portfolio: www.behance.net/Chrostek

Lukasz Kulakowski

Design, Ireland

Principal Designer at WebSummit

Lukasz is Principal Designer at WebSummit. He is addicted to UI, Spotify & bikes, responsible for evangelising good design practices.

Portfolio - www.emptypage.co.uk

Grzegorz Matyszewski

Front-end, Poland

Lead Frontend Developer at Huncwot

Grzegorz has studied Graphic Design at Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology in Warsaw. Fascinated by typography and Polish posters, always wanted to do more than just design. Years ago started playing with Flash websites focusing on detailed interface animations.

Now he's working at Huncwot as a Lead Frontend Developer.

Mateusz Rojecki

Front-end, Poland

Front-end Developer at Coders Lab

Mateusz is self-taught Front-end Developer with a few years of experience under his belt. In love with JavaScript, Lego bricks and Raspberry Pi. Right now he is working as a lecturer and mentor in Coders Lab, where he helps young adepts of programming to make their first steps in beautiful world of Web Development.

Fernando Cejas

Android, Germany

Software Engineer at Soundcloud

Fernando Cejas is a Software Engineer focused on Mobile Platforms. He has worked for several companies in a wide variety of projects in J2ME, C-Sharp, Java, Php and Ruby in different contexts: Social networks, NFC/RFID Hardware Solutions and E-Commerce.

He has been involved on Android since its appearance and currently he works at SoundCloud as part of Core Engineering providing tools to other developers in order to facilitate features development.

Artem Bykovets

QA, Ukraine

CEO at "StartIT"

Artem started his career in IT in 2007 from the position of "content manager", then moved to QA, where has worked on various projects for a few years gaining experience and has grown to the position of QA Lead. After served as ScrumMaster for 3 development teams at BetLab, takes an active part in the transition to SAFe within the company. Starting from 2015 worked as Agile Consultant at Competera and consulting for few other outsourcing and product software companies. Now is an Agile Coach at Levi9 for big enterprise client from Netherlands.

Artem delivers lectures on "Quality of software and software testing" discipline for Faculty of Information Computer Engineering in National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI"

In addition, almost 3 years engaged in coaching and teaching his own course for those wishing to start a career as a software test engineer. About 300 graduates, around 50% of them were successfully employed. Developing new courses and partnerships directions for StartIT as CEO.

Alexei Vinogradov

QA, Germany

Consultant / Selenide

Alexei has been working in various IT projects in Germany for more than 15 years. He consults about quality assurance, test automation and about how to keep calm and be a good tester. He is a developer of Selenide, and the founder and moderator of Radio QA podcast.

Alexei is a passionate speaker who talked at many QA conferences, including SQA Days, Selenium Camp, Selenium Conference, Heisenbug, CodeFest, QA Fest.

Maik Nogens

QA, Germany

Senior test consultant at Diaz & Hilterscheid

Maik works as a test consultant for various industries and projects, from SAP to social media.

As part of his passion to support the profession of testers and testing, he is very active in many peer and community setups. He is a co-founder of some international peer networks, GATE and PotsLightning and runs several testing communities in his hometown Hamburg, Germany.

In 2014 he designed and implemented the global Software Testing World Cup (STWC), which runs every 2 years.

Sergey Almyashev

QA, Ireland

Principal consultant at sdclabs.com

12+ years in IT / Software Development with primary focus on Quality Assurance, Software Testing, Test Automation, Project and People management.

Stan Malkin

Back-end, Ukraine

Co-founder of Creativin & Founder of IT Challenges

Stan has 10 years of commercial experience in development. From simple websites to huge CRM systems. Worked as a standalone developer and as a team leader, project manager.

He loves to work with brilliant people.

winners

QA

Junior
1. Elena Klimova

2. Andriy Marusyak

3. Ivan Efimov

Middle/Senior
1. Vlad Romanenko

2. Iaroslav Dobrosynets

3. Julia Kosulia
Web Design

Junior
1. Oliwia Przybyła

2. Elżbieta Matuszek

3. Heorhii Cherednicenko

Middle/Senior
1. Wojciech Dobry

2. Alina Korol

3. Mateusz Przytuła
Front-end HTML

Junior
1. Artem Drei

2. Lena Dragan

3. Hristina Mondovska

Middle/Senior
1. Dima Barylo

2. Anton Honcharuk

3. Maryna Kozelchuk
Front-end JS

Junior
1. Alena Pahnyuk

2. Vadym Graboviy

3. Nick Jokic

Middle/Senior
1. Николай Петрунин

2. Vitaliy Bobrov

3. Vitalii Ratyshnyi
Back-end

Junior
1. Zsolt Vicze

2. Kamil Trybek

3. Béla Schaum

Middle/Senior
1. Slobodan Erakovic

2. Andrii Romas

3. Ahmed Prohic
Android

1. Tomaž Ravljen

2. Konstiantin Rybchinski
iOS

1. Taras Markevich