#Noonies2021 Awards: The List of Winners in the Internet Heroes Category

Not all heroes wear capes. Some heroes are somewhere out there in our vast universe behind a computer screen, contributing to the greenness of our tech community.

Regardless of the global difficulties that we faced in 2021, our internet heroes have been advocating for changes and innovations and reaching out to the world, from every nation, background, gender, and predisposition.

In our #internetheroes category, we are celebrating small victories by creators, thinkers, makers who have dedicated their talent to innovations of the internet that significantly impact our lives for the better.

Who are these heroes and how were they chosen? Discover them in the Annual Noonies Awards list!

Here are the stats:

• 4,961 nominees.

• 586 Hacker Noon awards for 2021

• Across 6 award categories: Decentralization, Gaming, Internet Heroes, Internet, Software Development, and Technology.

• And a monumental 105,122 votes cast over at noonies.tech

  
  

The Internet Heroes alone is announcing 78 winners in different categories this year. 78 superhumans of the Internet!

Who are they? Shall we reveal their identities behind their invisible capes?

Best Use of Tech for Democracy

Samuel Sinyangwe has developed an app to track police brutality across the US, creating a new tool to keep the police accountable.

Best Use of Tech for Good

Blue Sky Analytics is saving the planet, one dataset at a time.

Green Tech Advocate of the Year

The greenest tech awards goes to the most sustainable use of tech for the environment 💚🌱 Congrats to Jules Buker, CEO TreeApp, empowering people to plant trees via NGOs across the world.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - AI

Humans with irrational brains writing about machines with rational brains. A round of applause for @ilyshka with 448 votes, an euntrepreneur and machine learning enthusiast.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ALGORITHMS

The Noonies celebrates the amazing people who power the technology industry, especially those who write. Charlie G. dedicated his time to make tech further our curiosity and creativity.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - AMAZON

Hey Alexa, send a cheer to Sahana writing on Business|Technology|FinTech!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Praneeth Guduguntla is rocking this with the passion to code, design, and create.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - AUGMENTED-REALITY

The Noonies celebrates the amazing people who power the technology industry. Especially those who write! Shannon is leading this category on HackerNoon!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - AUTOMATION

"Automation may be a good thing, but don't forget that it began with Frankenstein." -- said an anonymous machine. Check out Ajay Kumar’s stories!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - BIG-DATA

Gather and organize and process insights from large datasets with new computer strategies and technologies. Congratulations to Markle of the uniqueness in big rata.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - BOTS

Tomas Sirio won us over with his creativity!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CHINA

Hugh Harsono writes about cyberspace, digital currencies, economics, foreign affairs, and technology

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CLOUD

It's raining tech stories and Vivian took the lead! Congratulations on this achievement 🌟

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CLOUD-COMPUTING

Now it's raining cloud stories. Cloud Academy is the proven platform to assess, develop, and validate hands-on technical skills.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - COMPUTER-SCIENCE

Sergei Golitsyn won our hearts with 370 votes!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CORONAVIRUS"

Alcor received 119 votes for amazing contributions!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CORONAVIRUS IMPACT ON BUSINESS

Alcor received 119 votes for amazing contributions!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - COVID 19

An astounding number of 1115 votes for our hero Michael Brooks. 🥳 Brooks is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, and author.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CROWDFUNDING

Nataraj is rocking this category!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CYBER-SECURITY

Kali Linux, a Cybersecurity expert and Ethical Hacker, won with tutorials on Cybersecurity.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CYBER-THREATS

Paul Price @ shhgit finds secrets in your code — before the bad guys do.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CYBERSECURITY

SonarSource builds world-class Code Quality & Security tools: SonarQube, SonarLint and SonarCloud.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA

Ryan Dawson writes about data, how to manage it, how to do AI with it, how to make data-driven products!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-ANALYSIS

Imenso Software is a client-focused custom software development company.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-ANALYTICS

Xtract.io is an enterprise-grade solutions and platforms provider by using AI, ML, and NLP to solve business challenges.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-PRIVACY

Kali Linux is a Cybersecurity expert and Ethical Hacker who writes tutorials on cybersecurity.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-SCIENCE

Xtract.io is an enterprise-grade solutions and platforms provider by using AI, ML, and NLP to solve business challenges.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-SECURITY

Congratulations our contributor and tech director Mathias Hellquist! Mathias writes about Privacy, Productivity, Infosec, Death Metal, Photography, and good UX.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-VISUALIZATION

Shachee Swadia, our Data Designer and Content Creator is leading the votes!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATABASE

Congratulations Oleg Stadnichenko - Marvelous Senior Backend Software Developer!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DEEP-LEARNING

Votes go to Alexey Chaplygin, who described himself as in love with neural nets. He is VP of Product Delivery at Reface – AI-app to swap faces on videos, GIFs, and images.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DIGITAL-TRANSFORMATION

111 votes to Alcor - Alcor offers your own R&D center fully backed by our operational services.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DIVERSITY

Congratulations to .TECH Domains!!!!!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DOTNET

Oleksii Holubiev, Lead Software Engineer and Cyber Security Expert, won this category!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ELON-MUSK

Maria Stankevich had the best stories 📚 congrats!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ENCRYPTION

Sam Patel is a cybersecurity consultant, tech writer, and regular columnist for Savvy Security.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ETHICS

Alexey Chaplygin surely inspired us again! Alexey is VP of Product Delivery at Reface – AI-app to swap faces on videos, GIFs, and images.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - FINTECH

Sergei Golitsyn grossed over an astounding number of 378 votes! A true internet hero 🦸‍♂️

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - FUTURE

Mark McKinney studied Entrepreneurship and Strategic Communication at High Point University and is now Founder of BlueSkyAI.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - FUTURE-OF-WORK

kunal rajput - congratulations on leading this category!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - FUTURISM

Anthony Watson led this category, and is currently Coder and Author of Cryptocurrency Investing in the Age of Dollar Chaos.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - GROWTH

An impressive number of 462 votes for Product Lead & Venture Founder Timoté Geimer!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - HACKING

SmartScanner, congratulations on winning this category!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - HARDWARE

Andrey Solovev is a Co-founder and CTO at Integra Sources PhD in Physics and Mathematics, and also the winner of this category 🌟

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - INFORMATION SECURITY

Irfan Shakeel is CEO & Lead trainer EH Academy (online cybersecurity training company by ehacking.net).

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - INNOVATION

Impressive 251 votes! Sergei Golitsyn writes amazing articles about Domain.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - INTERNET-OF-THINGS

Sadia Mehmood is a Market Research Analyst @Invozone.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - IOT

Lawrence Martin - kudos for your amazing contribution!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - LEAN-STARTUP

247 votes! Lomit Patel is the Bestselling author of "Lean AI."

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MACHINE-LEARNING

Congratulations to Neal Taylor for leading this category!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MATHEMATICS

Sending our cheers to Technopreneur Sharad Sundararajan!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MENTAL-HEALTH

Psychiatrist and writer, Amy Shah, highlights topics of mental health in her contributions to Hackernoon. Her articles have featured ideas from caffeine overuse to accessibility. She is writing to help others with their mental health.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ML

Bertrand Jouvenot, Advisor| Author | Speaker | Teacher| Blogueur, congratulations for leading this category!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MONEY

An impressive number of 183 votes go to Christian Kameir 🌼

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - OPEN-SOURCE

Stoplight has contributed to a variety of open-source projects and tools for the community and advanced them significantly this year.

From Elements for documentation to Spectral for automated API Style Guides and Prism for mocking, there are a variety of tools given to the developer community to be successful API design and developers.

With their open-source October initiative, anyone at Stoplight or in the API community could contribute to pull requests on their open-source tools in exchange for 400 trees planted per pull request.

Because of all the contributions to their open-source software, they were able to plant 10,000 trees. Go open source!!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PAYMENTS

NOWPayments is the winner of this category 🔥

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PERSONAL-DATA

Zen Chan is interested in Infosec & Biohacking, Security Architect by profession, and enjoys reading and running.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - POLITICS

Derek Lim is a Full-time Blockchain and Cryptocurrency nerd, Certified Blockchain Practitioner, and Certified Bitcoin Professional.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PRIVACY

Congratulations to Haris Shahid for changing the world one blog at a time.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PSYCHOLOGY

Konstantin Sokolov amassed a total of 400 votes! Congratulations for winning this category.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - RASPBERRY-PI

Congratulations, Will Ho, Machine Learning Engineer for leading this section!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - REMOTE-TEAMS

An impressive round of 1373 votes for Behzad Sharifi, Co-principal at Response CRM, a fully remote business built and managed by a remote team since day one.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ROBOTICS

Matthew Gates, Founder of NoteToServices, is the internet hero for this category!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - SCIENCE

Kahlil Corazo, congratulations for the deserving victory!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - SECURITY

SonarSource: We build world-class Code Quality & Security tools: SonarQube, SonarLint and SonarCloud.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - SMALL-BUSINESS

Uplers delivers end-to-end design, web development, digital marketing, and email production services to businesses.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUP

The startup world is reading from our winner Samiran Mondal.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUP-ADVICE

Hey startup world, go to Ritika Mehta for stories on startup advice!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUP-LESSONS

There are more lessons in failure stories than success stories - **Ritika Mehta covers the best ones this year!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUPS

Ritika Mehta, congratulations on winning this category!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUPS OF THE YEAR

Ivan Huerta, CEO @Parabeac, thank you for your amazing stories!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUPS TOP STORY

Congratulations John Lafleur, Co-founder at Airbyte.io, the new standard for open-source data integration.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - VIRTUAL-REALITY

Our winner is metapunk ✨

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - VR

Jack Boreham is rocking VR stories this year! Congratulations on the victory.

Health & Wellness Content Creator of The Year

Congratulations Juxtathinka, med student and health blogger who deserves this win of the year!!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - WEB MONETIZATION

Sukhpinder Singh, congratulations on writing best web monetization stories!

Loudest Tech Naysayer of the Year

This one goes out to the rule-breakers - the "crazy skeptics", "cynical critics", and "persistent pessimists". And this year, our rule-breaker is Ashlee Marie Preston!

Rick Sanchez of the Year

This prestigious award is intended to acknowledge the seemingly fine line between madness and brilliance. Sometimes having a perspective or drive that is outside the norm can be taunted and questioned, as seen in Rick and Morty and the Meaning of Life.

But surpassing these challenges and creating something useful, brilliant, awesome, or just genuinely hilarious is a winning way to be. Congratulations Sergey Golitsyn, may you always be bold and quirky!

TikTok's Crypto Czar

The leader of the next generation's wealth discussion via the next generation's preferred medium - and the TheBlockchainBoy leads our category!

Another big congratulation to all of our heroes 💚 Continue to shine with your energy and make the internet a better place to be in 2022!

More Information:

If you’re a winner, please answer this interview! If you’re a reader, participant, or just a curious individual, consider answering one of our other interviews here.

Read about the Noonies here. To see all of the winners you may visit this site, pick any award, and view the name that appears at the top.

Or follow this account for posts with the list of names released over the course of the week of February 14, 2022.

The Noonies Winners Annoucement series will announce some of the top founders, hackers, and makers in all 6 categories.

Thank you to all of our sponsors!

We truly appreciate your contribution to the tech world and thus the future! The Noonies Awards are sponsored by: Bybit, Avast, TECH Domains and hosted by: HackerNoon

This post was written by An Le and edited by Natasha Nel.