DigitalOcean, Stockroom.io to host online Women Coding Hack on January 7th

BENGALURU: Cloud platform provider DigitalOcean and Stockroom.io, India's curated platform for developers, have partnered to launch ‘Women Hack’, an online coding challenge for women.

According to the organizers, the women hack will consist of a series of challenging coding questions of various complexities. Participants are expected to solve these questions remotely in a given time frame. The top women developers who participate in the challenge will be featured and rewarded.

The first women hack is scheduled for January 7, 2017. The organizers say that every participant of the challenge will receive free cloud credits from DigitalOcean and the winner will get some cool swag, additional cloud credits and a cash prize from DigitalOcean.

Speaking about the partnership, Prabhakar Jayakumar, Country Manager, DigitalOcean said, “We are happy to partner with Stockroom.io on the Women Hack initiative. DigitalOcean strongly believes men and women are equally capable of being innovators in technology. In a progressive field like technology, events like these provide a good platform to foster innovation and we look forward to supporting women entrepreneurs and developers. The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream. It’s not just about diversity at the workplace but also about encouraging and supporting more women to build amazing technology products. DigitalOcean strongly believes that men and women are equally capable of being innovators in technology.”

Both Stockroom.io and DigitalOcean  intend to host women-only coding challenges more frequently and host it in a big scale going forward.