Looking to learn about automation, indulge in pizza and snacks, and spend time getting to know other automation experts? This is your time to join the VMware {Code} Hackathon event. The event runs July – August, culminating on-site at VMware Explore in Las Vegas on Monday, August 25.
Why:
- Work on that idea you have had but never carved out time and motivation
- Helps you create or join a team to help build your idea or move an idea forward
- Gives you a chance to share your idea with others
- Review other ideas and join people working on something interesting.
- Win a prize with your team and get recognition for your contributions
- Receive a VMware{code} Hackathon T-shirt and be a part of the event.
What:
- From July – August you can Create or Join a team to work on an idea
- Automation project for the datacenter, tools, enhancements, scripts, GUI’s
- Teams can be anywhere from 1-10 people
- Create code and present and demo what you have built Monday evening August 25th, 2025
- Judging and Awards will happen between 10:00pm-11:30pm
How:
- Register for the event at:
https://broadcomcx.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dir0LMGCHeFAxDw - Offer to be a Team Leader: eric.nielsen@broadcom.com
- Review this Blog to see existing teams to join
- We will reach-out to you to determine what team to place you on if you don’t request a team
Ideas and Team Captains: Teams are forming now, please be a part of it and suggest a team, we are looking for Captains and great ideas.
Team 1
Idea: Raspberry Pi 5 Monitoring Application using Powershell and vSphere APIs
We will have Raspberry Pi 5’s and will utililize Powershell PowerCLI to make a monitoring system and display data on a small I2C bus OLED display.
Captain: James Warmkessel
Email: jr@aruba-consulting.com
Members: Eric Nielsen, Corey Romero, Noell Grier
Team 2
Idea: TBD, ask Marc waiting to hear from him. We expect to hear from him shortly.
Captain: Marc Huppert
Members: TBA
Team 3
Idea: Creat an AI interface for VMware products analyzing RVTools output data using MCP.
Powered by PowerShell and PowerCLI. We’ll create prompts to ask “Real World” questions and use the responses to solve common everyday tasks
Captain: Dale Hassigner
Email: dale.hassinger@broadcom.com
Members: TBA
Team 4
Idea: vCheck fork, enhancements
vChecker (which is a fork of vCheck for vSphere) and give some much needed love to some plugins and maybe even come up with a couple of new plugins.
Captain: Dario Doerflinger
Email: dario.doerflinger@soultec.ch
Members: TBA
Team 5
Idea: TBD, Ask Shaik
Captain: Sheik Mohd Hazaifa
Members:
Team 6
Idea: vAuditRBAC: Policy-Driven RBAC Compliance for vCenter
Ensure your vCenter environment adheres to defined RBAC policies with vAuditRBAC, an automated compliance tool. It compares live roles and permissions in vCenter against a centrally defined policy stored in GitHub or Confluence and reports any mismatches in privileges, assignments, or propagation levels.
Captain: Pawel Piotroowski
Email: piotrowski89p@gmail.com
Members:
Team 7
Idea: Open
Captain:
Members:
Team 8
Idea: Open
Captain:
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Team 9
Idea: Open
Captain:
Members:
Judges:
- Allan Renouf
- William Lam
Hackathon participants must agree to the applicable contest terms and conditions, which will be made available at the time of team invitation.
