Persistent Systems has won the title of 'India's Coding Power House' at the recently concluded Techgig Code Gladiators 2014 competition. Hosted by Times Jobs, the 2 month contest is India's largest, involving approximately 35,000 professionals across 64 leading IT companies in the country.

The contestants had to solve problems in either C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, VBNET, Ruby, Perl, Python or JavaScript. With our broad and deep technology expertise, 23 of the Persistent coders received full points.

''This isn't a coincidence. Building software products is in our DNA and hundreds of leading organizations around the world attest to that. Our convincing victory in this competition, against so many other top companies, clearly demonstrates Persistent has the technology and engineering expertise that our customers require,'' said, Mritunjay Singh, executive director and chief operating officer of persistent Systems.

Shares of the company gained Rs 20.70, or 1.73%, to settle at Rs 1,219.60 at the BSE (Monday).