Topcoder harnesses the combined capabilities of the crowd to specialize in three core offerings: Design and Rapid Prototyping – the crowd can create and test mobile and web applications quickly Application Development – offers improved app development using the latest technologies Algorithms and Analytics – the crowd can optimize, analyze, and assess a client’s needs through data science solutions. With over 1 million developers in the crowd community, Topcoder believes that combining competition with experts – whom you only need to employ for a specific project – produces the most affordable access and solution to a client’s app or data science problem. Topcoder continues to operate as an independent subsidiary, but in a rapidly evolving IT consultancy environment, how will Wipro – who partly acquired Appirio and therefore Topcoder for synergistic access to the crowd – harness the delicate developer community that defines Topcoder?

Founded in 2001, Topcoder remained private until it was acquired in 2013 by Appirio, which was then acquired by international IT consultancy firm Wipro in 2016. Topcoder is a platform that host the world’s largest community of competitive designers, developers, and data scientists to offer on-demand crowdsourcing solutions to its clients.

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