More than anything HackOps 1.0 was a significant milestone for the team, we set out to build a tool that will change the development landscape in Africa and by extension globally, providing a low-cost solution for developers to go from code to cloud and breaking the DevOps literacy barrier, the maiden edition of our developer hackathon HackOps 1.0 provided a platform for us to demonstrate this.
Not being ignorant of the realities of our community we decided to also use this platform to challenge developers to build solutions that hit close to home, highlighting 5 major sectors; Healthcare. Finance. Education. Project Management. Travel and hospitality
Developers across Africa brainstormed and developed solutions to problems across these sectors in a 5-day virtual hackathon, then we invited the top 25 projects as selected by our judges to the final event in Lagos.
The goal of this report is to highlight technologies, projects, partnerships, participants, and other key metrics of the hackathon and to give you a hint at what is possible with PipeOps as a cloud deployment tool and an enabler of the African tech ecosystem.
This demonstration is a statement that developers and entrepreneurs don’t have to look outside anymore.
Total number of participants
754
Unique technologies used
27
Average DevOps experience level
1.5/5
Total number of projects
85
Most popular skill
Fullstack Engineering
How many people participated in this edition of HackOps?
754 participants completed the registration process before the deadline on the 12th of June, 2024
What were the most popular skills?
Most technical participants were Full Stack Developers and most non-technical participants were Designers
How experienced were the technical participants in DevOps?
We told participants to rate their DevOps skills on a scale of 1 - 5, 9 out of 10 technical participants selected less than 2.
Still don’t think DevOps literacy is a problem?
How did participants hear about hackOps?
Schools and Communities are by far the major enablers of innovators across Nigeria. With great support from community leaders and executives, We had participants from 13 schools and 11 communities join the hackathon.
What did developers have to say about the hackathon?
Participants were quite chatty about their experience, you can follow the conversations on X and LinkedIn using the official hackathon hashtags, #HackOps1, #BuildingforProductivity
But here are some highlights:
What did developers have to say about their experience using PipeOps?
What was the total number of deployments made?
A deployment is made whenever a pod is successfully created on a server, this happened 36 thousand times. Developers only had to connect their repo and their projects got updated every time they made a commit, courtesy of CI/CD pipelines that are automatically integrated with every PipeOps account.
It's a good time to note that these were done by developers that don’t have DevOps experience
What technologies did participant build their solutions with?
Across all the projects that were submitted, we found 27 different technologies, HTML and ReactJS being the most popular frontend technologies, and Python being the most popular backend technology.
How useful were PipeOps Addons to participants?
Participants deployed addons into their servers right from PipeOps at no extra cost
How much resources were created?
714 GB RAM, 714 vCPU, and 3.6 TB Storage of Nova Server resources created in total.
Yes, not just AI requires large compute
Project Sector Distribution
Healthcare and finance were the top sectors participants built for, 6 out of 10 solutions fell within these 2 categories. This is a pointer to an even bigger conversation that illustrates some of the major areas everyday people have pain.
Our Grand Prize winners
Team Bendan
Team Bendan emerged as the winner of HackOps 1.0 with their healthcare solution BDMeds a solution aimed at providing quick access to doctors and organizing patient records efficiently, improving both patient care and administrative processes.
Team Medix
In Second Place we had another healthcare solution from Team Medix, they built Medix, an AI platform designed to generate medical notes and patient instructions based on doctor-patient conversations, streamlining documentation and enhancing communication in healthcare.
Team Isis
And right behind them in Third Place was yet another healthcare solution, HackOps 1.0 was quite the plot 😂, Team Isis built MedixDB which they aim to use in Revolutionalizing Healthcare Records Management.
Additionally, We felt it right to recognize teams/participants that were in the Top 10 spots according to our judges
Team Trvelr developed Trvelr, a platform designed to make vacation planning enjoyable and stress-free by leveraging AI to provide personalized recommendations and seamless travel arrangements.
David Amos created Bernard, an educational tech robot aimed at enhancing learning experiences through interactive and engaging educational support.
Team Quiryfy developed Quiryfy, an innovative platform designed to empower students to “stay ahead of the game” and study without limits, offering advanced tools and resources for a limitless learning experience.
Abdulrasheed Lawal developed Tactix, a platform aimed at revolutionizing the hiring process by providing a better way to hire top talent efficiently and effectively.
Fadeyi David created HealthALT, a platform designed to help individuals replace junk food with healthy alternatives, promoting better nutrition and overall well-being.
Team Fremen developed MediAssist, a platform aimed at revolutionizing personal healthcare management by providing innovative tools and resources for individuals to manage their health more effectively.
Adewale Joshua created CardAjoo, a platform designed to empower communities through digital rotating savings and credit associations, fostering financial growth and stability.
Momoh Yusuf developed Stud-AI, a platform designed to help students ace their WAEC, NECO, and JAMB exams with AI-powered assistance, offering personalized learning and targeted support.
Team Arcana Devs developed StudyHack, a platform aimed at transforming learning through AI-powered personalized assessments, providing tailored feedback and support to enhance student performance.
Team The4coders developed Health Guardian, a solution designed to address a major issue in the healthcare industry by offering innovative tools and features to improve health management and patient care.
During the first stage of the hackathon, we encouraged the participants to actively share their progress and their solution online, we believe a great story and community are just as good as a great product so we decided to encourage this with the Public Builder Award, Here are some of our public builders and what they built
Bridget Amana from Team Byteforce worked on Academia, an all-in-one educational dashboard designed to streamline and enhance learning experiences through efficient and effective management of academic resources and progress.
Yes! You are right, you’ve seen him before, Adewale Joshua building CardAjoo wasn’t planning to leave anything on the table with his digital rotating savings solution.
Sherrifdeen Adebayo from Team Ace Programmers developed Healify360, a telehealth solution that connects users with certified doctors remotely, providing accessible and reliable medical consultations from the comfort of their homes.
Luqman Lawal from Team Avid created Immunicare, a child immunization tracking application aimed at ensuring timely and accurate vaccinations for children, improving overall health outcomes.
Abdur-Rasheed Idris representing Team Hackers developed Budgetease, a tool designed to be the fastest way to track and manage your budget, simplifying financial oversight and planning.
Collaborators
We had some help along the way, shoutout to our collaborators. We had the opportunity to tap into the resources, network, and experience of our collaborators and this was key in making HackOps 1.0 a success.
Collaborator's media
PythonNG Uyo
Babcock
Collaborator's testimonials
Judges
As is with every competition, we had to select winners, luckily we didn’t have to carry this burden alone, we had a pool of exceptional individuals, all superstars in the respective fields, using their vast experience to evaluate the projects and looking at the winners’ lineup we couldn’t have done it better.
Chinyere Inya
Head of Platform, Future Africa
Ismail Olasunkanmi
Senior Software Engineer & CTO of Future Africa
Jeremy Brockett
Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS
Ewere Diagboya
AWS Community Hero
Oluwaleke Fakorede
CTO of Insomnia Labs, Co-founder & CTO of GoWagr
Jadesola Akinnusoye
Product Manager
Samuel Ogbonyomi
CEO, PipeOps
Adora Nwodo
Founder, NexaScale, Senior Software Engineer & Cloud Engineering Author
Leke Ayodele
Co-founder and CEO at JobgapAI
Chukwudi Nwachukwu
Software Craftsman
Michael Mekuleyi
Senior DevOps Engineer
Cynthia E. Chisom
Startup Advisor, Principal Partner, SDC Startup School, & VP @ Spark Africa HQ
Abdullateef Abdul
Managing Counsel at Goldlex Legal & General Counsel at Bumpa
Olaoluwa Ogundeji
Co-founder of Mimrr
Enoch Osarenren
Life Coach & Software Product Owner
Olatunji Fagbore
Author, AI & iOT Product Manager & Business analyst
Chinyere Inya
Head of Platform, Future Africa
Ismail Olasunkanmi
Senior Software Engineer & CTO of Future Africa
Jeremy Brockett
Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS
Ewere Diagboya
AWS Community Hero
Oluwaleke Fakorede
CTO of Insomnia Labs, Co-founder & CTO of GoWagr
Jadesola Akinnusoye
Product Manager
Samuel Ogbonyomi
CEO, PipeOps
Adora Nwodo
Founder, NexaScale, Senior Software Engineer & Cloud Engineering Author
Leke Ayodele
Co-founder and CEO at JobgapAI
Chukwudi Nwachukwu
Software Craftsman
Michael Mekuleyi
Senior DevOps Engineer
Cynthia E. Chisom
Startup Advisor, Principal Partner, SDC Startup School, & VP @ Spark Africa HQ
Abdullateef Abdul
Managing Counsel at Goldlex Legal & General Counsel at Bumpa
Olaoluwa Ogundeji
Co-founder of Mimrr
Enoch Osarenren
Life Coach & Software Product Owner
Olatunji Fagbore
Author, AI & iOT Product Manager & Business analyst
A few takeaways from this report
The metrics shared in this report are a representation of what you would expect across our society. The productivity problems identified by the participants hit close to home, the enablers of skill development are evident from “where our participants came from” and also the reality that an increasing number of developers don’t have the required DevOps expertise to structure cloud infrastructures to operate optimally and this ripples out to create even more problems, a major one being High cloud bills.
PipeOps solves this by providing deployment-ready servers on cloud providers you already trust allowing any developer to deploy to the cloud serverside! Being hackers ourselves, we continue to improve the experience on PipeOps focusing on delivering the best value for developers and businesses that want to host on the cloud, read our latest releases for more information on some of our latest updates.
PipeOps solves this by providing deployment-ready servers on cloud providers you already trust allowing any developer to deploy to the cloud serverside! Being hackers ourselves, we continue to improve the experience on PipeOps focusing on delivering the best value for developers and businesses that want to host on the cloud, read our latest releases for more information on some of our latest updates.
PipeOps solves this by providing deployment-ready servers on cloud providers you already trust. Being hackers ourselves, we continue to improve the experience on PipeOps focusing on delivering the best value for developers and businesses that want to host on the cloud, read our latest releases for more information on some of our latest updates.
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