Not all heroes wear capes. Some heroes are somewhere out there in our vast universe behind a computer screen, contributing to the of our tech community. greenness 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 for 2021 586 Hacker Noon awards Across : 6 award categories , , , , , and . Decentralization Gaming Internet Heroes Internet Software Development Technology And a monumental over at 105,122 votes cast noonies.tech To see the winners simply visit , pick an award, and discover which name appears at the top. That’s the winner! noonies.tech The alone is announcing in different categories this year. 78 of the Internet! Internet Heroes 78 winners superhumans Who are they? Shall we reveal their identities behind their invisible capes? Best Use of Tech for Democracy has developed an app to track police brutality across the US, creating a new tool to keep the police accountable. Samuel Sinyangwe Best Use of Tech for Good is saving the planet, one dataset at a time. Blue Sky Analytics Green Tech Advocate of the Year The greenest tech awards goes to the most sustainable use of tech for the environment 💚🌱 Congrats to , CEO TreeApp, empowering people to plant trees via NGOs across the world. Jules Buker HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - AI Humans with irrational brains writing about machines with rational brains. A round of applause for with 448 votes, an euntrepreneur and machine learning enthusiast. @ilyshka HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ALGORITHMS The Noonies celebrates the amazing people who power the technology industry, especially those who write. dedicated his time to make tech further our curiosity and creativity. Charlie G. HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - AMAZON Hey Alexa, send a cheer to writing on Business|Technology|FinTech! Sahana HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE is rocking this with the passion to code, design, and create. Praneeth Guduguntla HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - AUGMENTED-REALITY The Noonies celebrates the amazing people who power the technology industry. Especially those who write! is leading this category on HackerNoon! Shannon 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 ’s stories! Ajay Kumar HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - BIG-DATA Gather and organize and process insights from large datasets with new computer strategies and technologies. Congratulations to of the uniqueness in big rata. Markle HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - BOTS won us over with his creativity! Tomas Sirio HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CHINA writes about cyberspace, digital currencies, economics, foreign affairs, and technology Hugh Harsono HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CLOUD It's raining tech stories and took the lead! Congratulations on this achievement 🌟 Vivian HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CLOUD-COMPUTING Now it's raining cloud stories. is the proven platform to assess, develop, and validate hands-on technical skills. Cloud Academy HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - COMPUTER-SCIENCE won our hearts with 370 votes! Sergei Golitsyn " HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CORONAVIRUS received 119 votes for amazing contributions! Alcor HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CORONAVIRUS IMPACT ON BUSINESS received 119 votes for amazing contributions! Alcor HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - COVID 19 An astounding number of 1115 votes for our hero . 🥳 Brooks is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, and author. Michael Brooks HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CROWDFUNDING is rocking this category! Nataraj HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CYBER-SECURITY , a Cybersecurity expert and Ethical Hacker, won with tutorials on Cybersecurity. Kali Linux HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CYBER-THREATS finds secrets in your code — before the bad guys do. Paul Price @ shhgit HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CYBERSECURITY builds world-class Code Quality & Security tools: SonarQube, SonarLint and SonarCloud. SonarSource HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA writes about data, how to manage it, how to do AI with it, how to make data-driven products! Ryan Dawson HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-ANALYSIS is a client-focused custom software development company. Imenso Software HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-ANALYTICS is an enterprise-grade solutions and platforms provider by using AI, ML, and NLP to solve business challenges. Xtract.io HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-PRIVACY is a Cybersecurity expert and Ethical Hacker who writes tutorials on cybersecurity. Kali Linux HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-SCIENCE is an enterprise-grade solutions and platforms provider by using AI, ML, and NLP to solve business challenges. Xtract.io HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-SECURITY Congratulations our contributor and tech director ! Mathias writes about Privacy, Productivity, Infosec, Death Metal, Photography, and good UX. Mathias Hellquist HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATA-VISUALIZATION , our Data Designer and Content Creator is leading the votes! Shachee Swadia HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DATABASE Congratulations - Marvelous Senior Backend Software Developer! Oleg Stadnichenko HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DEEP-LEARNING Votes go to , 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. Alexey Chaplygin HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DIGITAL-TRANSFORMATION 111 votes to - Alcor offers your own R&D center fully backed by our operational services. Alcor HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DIVERSITY Congratulations to !!!!! .TECH Domains HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DOTNET , Lead Software Engineer and Cyber Security Expert, won this category! Oleksii Holubiev HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ELON-MUSK had the best stories 📚 congrats! Maria Stankevich HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ENCRYPTION is a cybersecurity consultant, tech writer, and regular columnist for Savvy Security. Sam Patel HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ETHICS surely inspired us again! Alexey is VP of Product Delivery at Reface – AI-app to swap faces on videos, GIFs, and images. Alexey Chaplygin HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - FINTECH grossed over an astounding number of 378 votes! A true internet hero 🦸‍♂️ Sergei Golitsyn HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - FUTURE studied Entrepreneurship and Strategic Communication at High Point University and is now Founder of BlueSkyAI. Mark McKinney HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - FUTURE-OF-WORK - congratulations on leading this category! kunal rajput HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - FUTURISM led this category, and is currently Coder and Author of Cryptocurrency Investing in the Age of Dollar Chaos. Anthony Watson 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 , congratulations on winning this category! SmartScanner HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - HARDWARE is a Co-founder and CTO at Integra Sources PhD in Physics and Mathematics, and also the winner of this category 🌟 Andrey Solovev HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - INFORMATION SECURITY is CEO & Lead trainer EH Academy (online cybersecurity training company by ). Irfan Shakeel ehacking.net HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - INNOVATION Impressive 251 votes! writes amazing articles about Domain. Sergei Golitsyn HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - INTERNET-OF-THINGS is a Market Research Analyst @Invozone. Sadia Mehmood HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - IOT - kudos for your amazing contribution! Lawrence Martin HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - LEAN-STARTUP 247 votes! is the Bestselling author of "Lean AI." Lomit Patel HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MACHINE-LEARNING Congratulations to for leading this category! Neal Taylor HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MATHEMATICS Sending our cheers to Technopreneur ! Sharad Sundararajan HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MENTAL-HEALTH Psychiatrist and writer, , 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. Amy Shah HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ML , Advisor| Author | Speaker | Teacher| Blogueur, congratulations for leading this category! Bertrand Jouvenot HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MONEY An impressive number of 183 votes go to 🌼 Christian Kameir HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - OPEN-SOURCE has contributed to a variety of open-source projects and tools for the community and advanced them significantly this year. Stoplight 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 is the winner of this category 🔥 NOWPayments HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PERSONAL-DATA is interested in Infosec & Biohacking, Security Architect by profession, and enjoys reading and running. Zen Chan HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - POLITICS is a Full-time Blockchain and Cryptocurrency nerd, Certified Blockchain Practitioner, and Certified Bitcoin Professional. Derek Lim HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PRIVACY Congratulations to for changing the world one blog at a time. Haris Shahid HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PSYCHOLOGY amassed a total of 400 votes! Congratulations for winning this category. Konstantin Sokolov HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - RASPBERRY-PI Congratulations, , Machine Learning Engineer for leading this section! Will Ho HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - REMOTE-TEAMS An impressive round of 1373 votes for , Co-principal at Response CRM, a fully remote business built and managed by a remote team since day one. Behzad Sharifi HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ROBOTICS , Founder of NoteToServices, is the internet hero for this category! Matthew Gates HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - SCIENCE , congratulations for the deserving victory! Kahlil Corazo HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - SECURITY S : We build world-class Code Quality & Security tools: SonarQube, SonarLint and SonarCloud. onarSource HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - SMALL-BUSINESS delivers end-to-end design, web development, digital marketing, and email production services to businesses. Uplers 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 for stories on startup advice! Ritika Mehta HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUP-LESSONS There are more lessons in failure stories than success stories - ** covers the best ones this year! Ritika Mehta HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUPS R , congratulations on winning this category! itika Mehta HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUPS OF THE YEAR , CEO @Parabeac, thank you for your amazing stories! Ivan Huerta HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUPS TOP STORY Congratulations , Co-founder at , the new standard for open-source data integration. John Lafleur Airbyte.io HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - VIRTUAL-REALITY Our winner is ✨ metapunk HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - VR is rocking VR stories this year! Congratulations on the victory. Jack Boreham Health & Wellness Content Creator of The Year Congratulations , med student and health blogger who deserves this win of the year!! Juxtathinka HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - WEB MONETIZATION , congratulations on writing best web monetization stories! Sukhpinder Singh 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 , may you always be bold and quirky! Sergey Golitsyn TikTok's Crypto Czar The leader of the next generation's wealth discussion via the next generation's preferred medium - and the leads our category! TheBlockchainBoy 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 ! If you’re a reader, participant, or just a curious individual, consider answering one of our other interviews . this interview here Read about the Noonies . To see all of the winners you may visit , pick any award, and view the name that appears at the top. here this site Or follow for posts with the list of names released over the course of the week of February 14, 2022. this account The will announce some of the top founders, hackers, and makers in all 6 categories. Noonies Winners Annoucement series 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: , , and hosted by: Bybit Avast TECH Domains HackerNoon This post was written by and edited by An Le Natasha Nel. 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