The 10th (2025) edition of the SITAC competition successfully culminated with the grand finale on 5/4/2025. Nine teams successfully completed all deliverables and made it to the finals. The finalist teams represented a mix of graduate students from University of Washington, Welingkar Institute of Management Mumbai (India) , Carnegie Mellon University, University of Maryland and Texas A&M University. 

Winners:

• First Place: Team 3Divas (University of Washington )

• Kerou Huang, Liyi Liang, Vidya Venkappa

• Mentor - Nick Malik (Independent)

• Second Place: Team Eagles (University of Washington)

• Nikita Kumari, Pratik Pittala, Jung-Yu Shen

• Mentor - Sriram Sabesan (Accenture) 

• Third Place: Team Refactor Rangers (Carnegie Mellon University)

• Nikhil Londhe, Thrishik Senthilkumar, Aditya Shrivastava

• Mentor - Amit Naidu (JP Morgan)

• Special Mentions

• Team Dosa (University of Washington)

• Aswathy Uday Kumar, Arohi Narang, Anushka Sunil Bhagchandani

• Mentor -  Kevin Jennings (Costco)

• Team Syntax Squad (University of Washington)

• Rabia Shahid, Hrishikesh Gawde

• Mentor - Dr Pradeep Pendse (WeSchool, Mumbai)

Judges

• Prashant Gadgil, Snowflake

• Rakesh Malakar, Costco

• Tom Thomas, Votegrity

Evaluators

• Amol Morankar, Microsoft

• Fred Hennige, Jack in the Box

• Nataliya Bobrovnyk, F5 Networks

• Nirdesh Mittal, TMG

• Ramesh Ganesh, Oracle

• Samir Shilamkar, Google

Mentors:

• Kevin Jennings, Costco

• Santanu Dutta, Deloitte

• Adam Gordon, Microsoft (retired)

• Anupam Chatterjee, CGI

• Dr. Pradeep Pendse, Welingkar Institute of Management

• Nayana Pai N, Brillio LLC

• Nikitha Neeladdi, Amazon

• Nick Malik, Independent

• Sid Dixit, Copperpoint Insurance Companies

• Satish Negi, Independent

• Aman Singh, University of Washington

• Philippe De Milde, Starbucks

• Ravi Moghe, Independent

• Nilesh Malpekar, All State

• Mark Hemsley, National rail/Great British Rail

The competition marathon started in Jan 2025 and ended in May 2025. The student teams were assigned a mentor from the industry and implemented their architecture solutions through the following deliverables:

• 1. Scope, Epics and User Stories

• 2. UI/UX Architecture

• 3. Information and Analytical Reporting

• 4. Software and Security Architecture

• 5. Deployment Architecture and Technology Stack

• 6. Architecture Execution plan and Operationalization

• 7. Final Presentation 

Winners were decided based on evaluations of their deliverables by a team of evaluators in addition to the scoring by the judges based on the Final presentations and Q&A with the judges.