Yep. Even I was surprised. Not just 1 award, but 3. Wow. Even one for the technical blog. Ironically, the entire thing was about Gen A.I., and I didn't use any to write my blogs or content for the submission. Although you could say before the results, I kind of deciphered the signals, that it can be a possibility that I'm one of the winners. Now what signals am I talking about?
One of them was Jeff Barr (Chief Evangelist @ AWS, also one of the judges) being one of my Linkedin profile viewers, just around a week before the results were announced. Unexpected, and too random if I wasn't one of the winners right? And I had this gut feeling of our A-team demo video a.k.a the on-the-edge trailer for Parable Rhythm was a big hit. The amount of fun that you have working in a team that share the same vision keeps the morale high in unmeasurable amounts.
Overall the journey of participating, building Parable Rhythm, shooting the video with friends, hunger to deliver the best and simply having fun throughout was a roooollercoaster. I'll always be grateful for this wonderful opportunity that the AWS team provided. Have come to the realization that I enjoyed - the journey, probably even more than the destination.
Read more about it here on my Devpost feature story!
Thank you mom and dad!