#Noonies2022 Awards: The List of Winners in the Emerging Tech Category 

In prehistoric times, fire and wheel were emerging tech. Today, the standards might be a little higher, the impact a little distributed, but the potential to disrupt reality as we know it is still boundless.

The 2022 Noonies’ Emerging Tech Category Awards, in partnership with .TECH Domain by Radix, celebrates those individuals of the tech world that made the biggest strides towards the fulfillment of that potential.

But first, let’s look around for some stats:

• 4,743 nominees.
• 371 Hacker Noon awards for 2022
• Across 5 award categories: Web3, Emerging Tech, Gaming, Internet Heroes, and Programming.
• And a monumental 143,156 votes cast over at noonies.tech

Now, without further ado, let’s congratulate the winners!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ALGORITHMS

Ruslan Rakhmedov, Senior Software Engineer, doing competitive programming for fun… and excels in winning! Congratulations on winning HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ALGORITHMS.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- INNOVATION

An innovative mind, winner of HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUP in 2021, Samiran Mondal is back with another big win in 2022.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- AMAZON

Artur Sannikov cracking Amazon’s secrets with the expertise in Bioinformation.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ANALYTICS

With 1312 votes, published author Alejandro Duarte has become HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ANALYTICS.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- FINTECH

Staying true to their strong suit, Demetrios Zamboglou has taken home the Noonies 2022 award in Fintech.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CYBERSECURITY

Wale Ayinla owned it with their passion for cybersecurity, blockchain and cryptocurrencies!

Best Open Source Project

Quine is the open source streaming graph developed by the team at thatDot, a Portland, Oregon-based streaming event processing company. The decision to open source the Quine streaming graph underscores thatDot's conviction that the best infrastructure software thrives within an open and diverse community of contributors, and that well-made software freely available benefits everyone.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PHISHING

HackerNoon’s Contributor of the Year - Angular in 2021 strikes again! This time, Stanley Lim wins Contributor of the Year - Phishing.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- GRAPHQL

WunderGraph - The Open Source Serverless API Developer Platform wins the award in GRAPHQL this year!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- BUSINESS

Scott D. Clary, businessman and host of The Success Story Podcast has won the world over this year. Congratulations Scott!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- IOT

Big props to Sarafadeen Ibrahim Ayomide for winning the HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - IOT!

Top Tech YouTuber

Youtuber and Blog owner Anais Urlichs won our hearts with the knowledge she shared with the community.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- EDTECH

Congratulations Celine Aju on winning and we all wish her the best on the journey to inspire people and help the community with art and music.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DATA-PRIVACY

Congratulations Engr. Naina Emmanuel on becoming HackerNoon Contributor of the Year 2022 - Data-privacy.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- AUTOMATION

Dmitrii Bormotov took this award by storm with their expertise in automation and full-stack development.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- MACHINE-LEARNING

Sourav Das' philosophical turn on machine-learning never fails to amaze us.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- POLITICS

Congratulations Ralph Benko on being HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Politics!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

When it comes to humans with rational brains writing about machines with rational brains - Lerma Gray absolutely excels!

Best Data Science Newsletter

Christophe Blefari started Datanews - a weekly newsletter regarding data engineering as a way to give back to the tech community, where he learnt so much from. And the tech community has given back their love for you Christophe!

AI Genius of the Year

Scott Stephenson, a dark matter physicist turned Deep Learning entrepreneur, founded Deepgram - a software working to make voice intelligence available to all with faster, more accurate, more scalable speech recognition made possible by end-to-end deep learning.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CHINA

A devoted solution architect found the solution to Alibaba and the Alicloud; congratulations Viachaslau Matsukevich on winning Contributor of the Year - China.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- COMPUTER-VISION

Gaurav Sharma’s uniqueness in incorporating SEO strategies in his creative writings for sure sealed the deal for him to become Contributor of the Year - Computer Vision.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ECONOMICS

Wise words come from the wisest of them all. And surely Ralph Benko is one of them, with his deep knowledge of how money works, there’s no doubt of Ralph’s big win becoming HackerNoon Contributor of the Year in economics.

Cheeky Genius of the Year

Priya Kumari’s cheeky approach in writing just about everything (even her about page) definitely is concrete evidence of their win in this category.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- NETFLIX

With the passion in all things videos and streaming, Anjana is surely a leading expert in this category!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- HUMAN-RESOURCES

With Guidde, it’s never been easier to build your own software, as it’s never been easier to manage your company’s human resources.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- MATHEMATICS

Math is directly related to Tech, and Rishabh Agarwal’s approach to mathematics in the industry is truly remarkable.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- APPLE

A software engineer with a good understanding of one of the greatest tech empires - Apple! Congratulations Louis Min on your Contributor of the Year award.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DIGITAL-TRANSFORMATION

Dan Khomenko - he sure knows how to run a successful IT company, and definitely master the art of Digital Transformation.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DATA-VISUALIZATION

Teri Eyenike lives by their motto of making data visualization simple as HackerNoon Contributor of the Year in that category!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- HR

Super win for our superhuman HR Rick Chen!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- MICROSOFT

A very familiar face with our HackerNoon community (or so we thought ~spooky~). Congratulations to Ghost of HackerNoon for snatching this win.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DEEP-LEARNING

M Shehzen Sidiq, a post-grad student on their way to learn more about AI.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- EMAIL

Congratulations to Louis Min again! Productivity is off the chart!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- INSTAGRAM

An expert in anything cybersecurity - Jessica Truong is here to secure another Noonies win in 2022!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ECOMMERCE

20 years of content creation really set Jesse Young El up for the Ecommerce award!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- FUTURE-OF-WORK

Congratulations the award winning entrepreneur, speaker and author Michael Brooks on winning Contributor of the Year 2022!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SCIENCE

Once again Ralph Benko takes home the W; this time, science!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PRIVACY

We can always count on Paul Bailey to protect our privacy on the Internet.

Best General Technology Newsletter

The feeling of that first sip of coffee in the morning, uhhh, the best feeling ever. Morning Brew is the equivalent of that, but you can read it. Congratulations Morning Brew for winning Best General Technology Newsletter in Noonies 2022.

Creator of the Strangest Things

Master of the most mystical things on earth, Creator of the Strangest Things - Chingiz Nazar!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- FINANCE

Following a deep passion for all things crypto, Oguwale  Emmanuel has become HackerNoon Contributor of the Year in Finance.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ROBOTICS

The Noonies 2022 once again calls the name Chingiz Nazar! Congratulations on becoming Contributor of the Year - Robotics!

Founder of the Year

Being a founder is hard, and among all hard-working, smart and talented entrepreneurs out there, one persevered. Congratulations to Pavlo Tsiupka!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SLOGGING

Congratulations to one of our Slogging pioneers, Akasha Rose!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- GOOGLE

The NFT Wizard of 2021 strikes again in 2022, this time, Christian Kameir won HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Google!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- BIG-DATA

Congratulations to Otávio Simões for winning HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Big Data.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY

Congratulations to our Stable Coin Queen - Alyze Sam, #WomenInBlockchain for her big win in the Noonies 2022.

HackerNoon’s Tech Storyteller of the Year

How to tell an appealing story? Ask Oliver_Emeka - HackerNoon’s Tech Storyteller of the Year!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- AUGMENTED-REALITY

A self-proclaimed futurist, Amir Reza Asadi’s interest in AR is surely reflected in their writings.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DISTRIBUTED-SYSTEMS

HackerNoon’s Contributor of the Year 2020 Fabio is back after 2 years! Now become Contributor of the Year - Distributed Systems.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CHATBOTS

There’s no doubt that chatbots are some of the weirdest yet most amazing tech inventions and have intrigued many many people around the world. Vladislav Gukasov is one of them. Congratulations Vladislav with your award in the Noonies 2022.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PASSWORD-SECURITY

Congratulations JDLT on becoming HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Password Security.

Best Machine Learning Newsletter

Shaurya Uppal shares their learning from the experience building various products and problems solved in their weekly newsletter.

Startup Blogger of the year

What a writer! Congrats to Omri Hurwitz on being Startup blogger of the year!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- MONEY

Money keeps the world around and it seems like David O. holds its secrets. Congratulations to David for winning Contributor of the Year - Money

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- COMMUNICATION

Communication is key, in that case, Nikola O. must know something we don't. Congratulations on your award in the Noonies 2022 Nikola!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- HARDWARE

Congratulations Joshua Omale on being HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Hardware.

Best AI Newsletter

A weekly AI & Deep Learning newsletter curated by @dennybritz. Congratulations, The Wild Week in AI.

Most Controversial Tech YouTuber

Joma Tech has surely made big waves this year. Congratulations to Joma Tech.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- NEWS

With a passion for writing and technology, Juan C. Guerrero has taken home the award of HackerNoon Contributor of the  Year - News.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PRODUCT

Alex Paden won this round! Congrats on being HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Product.

Master of Drones

Draganfly is the top choice in the professional drone. They are truly, the master of Drones.

The greatest invention of all time…of the year

I mean… need I say more? You’re probably doing it right now. Copy & Paste.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- INDIA

Congratulations Nataraj on winning HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - India.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- FUTURE

What you talk about when you talk about the Future? Congratulations Christian Kameir for winning in this category.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- FUTURISM

Head’s in the future! Israel Matsuki’s escape to the future won them HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Futurism.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- MEDIA

With 24 total votes, Alyze Sam #womeninblockchain wins it again at the Noonies 2022.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- HEALTHTECH

Abto Software, a full-cycle custom software engineering company wins HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Healthtech. Congratulations!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- HEALTHCARE

Abto Software, a full-cycle custom software engineering company wins HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Healthcare. Congratulations!

The Isaac Asimov Award for Robotics

Oleg Kiva wins it! The Isaac Asimov Award for Robotics.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SLACK

Alex Harris is definitely not Slacking off this year. Congratulations bringing home a win in the Noonies 2022.

The New Gizmo with The Most Gadget-y-ness

The award goes to Tidbyt! Congratulations on the big win.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- QUANTUM-COMPUTING

The world of Quantum Computing is vast. And surely Edem Gold. has mastered the vast knowledge. Congrats on winning HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Quantum Computing.

FAANG or MAANG Hater of the Year

Speaking your mind is important. And Sarah Othman surely is a person who does not fear to speak their mind. Congrats Sarah on the award.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- ES6

When it comes to ES6, Sam Walpole takes home the W.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PAYMENTS

Congratulations Sipping for taking home the award. You did your community and the tech community proud for sure!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SMALL-BUSINESS

Props to Andrej Kovacevic for winning in the Noonies 2022 - Contributor of the Year - Small Business.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- REGULATION

The award of HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Regulation belongs to Patrick.Walsh

Ultimate Startup Strategist

Cutting it close with only 2 votes differences, The Tim Ferriss Show takes home the award of Ultimate Startup Strategist.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- PRODUCT-HUNT

Congratulations Margarita on winning HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Product Hunt.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- IPHONE

While the debate of Apple or Android is never ending, we are sure of one thing, that Todd Green is the winner of HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Iphone.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- SALESFORCE

With 25+ years of experience in the field, there’s no doubt that John Vester has taken home the award for SalesForce in the Noonies 2022.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- RETAIL

Congratulations Priya Kumari on winning HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Retail.