TopCoder Appoints Jiazhi Wu VP of Technology for China

TopCoder Appoints Jiazhi Wu VP of Technology for China

April 04, 2007

-- TopCoder Notable `WishingBone' Brings Competitive and
Technical Expertise to Company's China Operations


    GLASTONBURY, Conn., April 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
TopCoder(R), Inc., the leader in online programming
competition, skills assessment and competitive software
development, today announced it has hired Jiazhi Wu as Vice
President of Technology for the company's operations in
China. Wu, known throughout the TopCoder Community by his
handle "WishingBone", will oversee the
development of systems and application development for all
competitions and technologies and will be responsible for
introducing and training new members in China to the
TopCoder software process.  A past champion of TopCoder and
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ICPC events, Wu
studied at the College of Computer Science and Technology
and the Chu Kechen Honors College (Zhejiang University). He
brings a distinguished track record of achievements in
global programming competitions and component development
expertise to TopCoder's China office.

    (Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070403/NYF043 )

    "TopCoder is extremely pleased to have Mr. Wu join
our management team in China," said Rob Hughes,
President and COO of TopCoder, Inc. "The TopCoder
Community is widely recognized as one of the world's
preeminent programming talent pools, and Jiazhi is
certainly among the elite in that group."

    Wu joined TopCoder as a member in May 2002. During the
next two and a half years he earned a record 39 out of 45
component competition wins. He has also served as a
TopCoder architect, assembler, review board member for more
than 300 component projects as well as a Primary Reviewer
and Chief Judge for TopCoder and ACM/ICPC Asia regionals.
In December of 2004 Wu joined TopCoder as an assembly
contractor, where he has remained until his current
appointment.

    Partial list of Jiazhi Wu's Achievements

    -- TopCoder Collegiate Challenge, International
Regional Champion, 2003;

    -- ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
(ACM/ICPC), Champion 
       2003, Aizu; 2003, Runner-up, Xi'an; 2002, 4th place,
Beijing;  2003, 
       13th place in World Finals;

    -- International Collegiate Mathematical Contest in
Modeling, 2nd Prize, 
       2002;

    -- Founder and first president of ZJU Google Camp in
2006. Held technical 
       internship with Google that same year;

    -- Coached and created new training regimen for
Zhejiang University 
       ACM/ICPC teams which made the 2005 World Finals;

    -- TopCoder record and reputation - one of the most
prolific and 
       successful members of all time.

    To access Jiazhi Wu's online TopCoder profile, please
visit:
http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=286907
. Current TopCoder membership in China now totals nearly
10,000 students and professionals. The TopCoder China
website is available at: http://www.topcoderchina.com/ .

    About TopCoder, Inc.

    TopCoder is the recognized leader in identifying,
evaluating and mobilizing effective software development
resources in the global community. Through its proprietary
programming competitions and rating system, TopCoder
recognizes and promotes the abilities of the best
programmers around the world.  TopCoder software harnesses
the talent of these developers to design, develop and
deploy software through its revolutionary competitive
development methodology. TopCoder's methodology emphasizes
thorough specification and design, distributed development
using reusable components, and a rigorous quality assurance
review process that results in higher quality, lower cost
software solutions than traditional software development
methodologies.  For more information about sponsoring
TopCoder events, recruiting TopCoder members and utilizing
TopCoder's software services, visit
http://www.topcoder.com/ .
  
    TopCoder is a registered trademark of TopCoder, Inc. in
the United States and other countries. All other product and
company names herein may be trademarks of their respective
owners.


    For more information, please contact:

     Jim McKeown						
     TopCoder, Inc.						
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