--- title: "Congrats to Team Nimrods - 2nd globally in O'Reilly AI…" url: https://daily.dev/posts/congrats-to-team-nimrods---2nd-globally-in-o-reilly-ai--0aqtcwqd6 source_url: https://8thlight.com/insights/honoring-our-q4-beacon-award-recipients-team-nimrods type: article source: "8th Light" published: 2026-02-24T15:04:15.288Z updated: 2026-02-24T15:04:32.853Z tags: ["ai", "career", "architecture"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Congrats to Team Nimrods - 2nd globally in O'Reilly AI… **[8th Light](https://daily.dev/sources/8thlight)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Team Nimrods, a three-person team from 8th Light (Kelsey Roy, Jonathan Manahan, and Eric Olson), placed second globally in the O'Reilly Architectural Katas Q4 2025 AI-Enabled Architecture competition, finishing among the final eight teams worldwide. The team was recognized with 8th Light's internal Beacon Award for representing the company's values on a global stage through strong technical execution, thoughtful problem selection, and clear presentation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Celebrating our Beacon: Rani Zipelwar\!](https://daily.dev/posts/celebrating-our-beacon-rani-zipelwar--j7ea7q19l) · 8th Light · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [NVIDIA Kaggle Grandmasters Win Artificial General Intelligence Competition](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-kaggle-grandmasters-win-artificial-general-intelligence-competition-nkdcmanze) · NVIDIA Developer · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Welcome to AI’s Messy Middle: Where 36x Gains Require Distinguished Engineers](https://daily.dev/posts/welcome-to-ai-s-messy-middle-where-36x-gains-require-distinguished-engineers-leylyllss) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/congrats-to-team-nimrods---2nd-globally-in-o-reilly-ai--0aqtcwqd6)