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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Corporate Innovation Pilot Design for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Audit year-1: review the 14 pilots' charters, outcomes, and sponsor commitment. Identify the structural failures (likely: no sponsor with budget ownership, no scale-up criteria …
- Innovation Management
- Pilot Program Design
- Stakeholder Communication
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Search-Based Logistics Router for a Same-Day Delivery Service
Build a Python service exposing /route that takes (courier_location, list_of_stops, traffic_window) and returns an ordered route. Implement 2 search strategies: A* (with a domai…
- Search Algorithms
- Intelligent Agents
- Python Or Javascript
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS Elective) - CodeBeginnerNew
Churn-Prediction Model for a B2B Vertical SaaS
Use 18 months of anonymized data (provided) covering: usage events, login frequency, support tickets, NPS responses, billing health, feature adoption, practice firmographics. De…
- Supervised Learning
- Python Or Javascript
- Ml Applications
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Customer-Segmentation Study for a DTC Subscription Box
Use 18 months of anonymized data: order history, churn events, NPS responses, box-rating data, referral activity, marketing-channel attribution. Engineer features (RFM-style + b…
- Unsupervised Learning
- Python Or Javascript
- Ml Applications
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Forecasting Model for Online-Game Daily Active Users
Build forecasts at 14-day horizon per region using: (1) classical baseline — SARIMA or Prophet; (2) ML approach — gradient-boosted regressor on engineered features (day-of-week,…
- Supervised Learning
- Time Series Forecasting
- Python Or Javascript
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - StrategyIntermediateNew
Build a 3-Year IT Strategy for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Inventory the current IT estate from anonymized exports (CMDB extract, license registry, 4 plant CIO interviews, last 18 months of incident data). Identify 5 strategic themes (l…
- It Strategy
- It Governance
- Business It Alignment
IT Management and Governance - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Application Portfolio Rationalization at a Global Bank
Receive a CMDB extract of 412 applications with cost, technology stack, business owner, and usage telemetry (anonymized). Score each application on business value (revenue contr…
- Portfolio Rationalization
- It Governance
- Cost Analysis
IT Management and Governance - DesignBeginnerNew
Stand Up a Business-IT Alignment Operating Model
Map the current demand flow from intake to delivery (or non-delivery) and identify the top 5 break points (likely candidates: no triage, no prioritization frame, undersized capa…
- Business It Alignment
- Demand Management
- Portfolio Prioritization
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Marketing Analyst
Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- CodeIntermediateNew
VR Training Simulator for Power-Substation Switching
Receive a real switching procedure (anonymized: 14-step bay isolation), the safety regulation it references, and photos of the live substation bay. Build a Unity 6 + XR Interact…
- Vr Development
- Unity
- Xr Interaction
Virtual and Mixed Reality - StrategyBeginnerNew
App Store Launch Strategy for a Bootstrapped SaaS Side-Project
Audit the team's current TestFlight build and Play internal-testing build. Produce: App Store Connect and Play Console store listings with optimized titles, subtitles, keyword r…
- App Distribution
- Store Listing
- Mobile Analytics
Mobile Application Development - StrategySeniorNew
TLS and PKI Migration to Post-Quantum for a Cross-Border Bank
Receive an anonymized TLS inventory (endpoint, current cipher suite, TLS version, certificate issuer, last rotation, business criticality) and the bank's PKI hierarchy. Score en…
- Tls
- Pki
- Post Quantum Cryptography
Network Security - DesignIntermediateNew
Detection Engineering for Cloud DDoS Against a Public-Sector Portal
Receive sanitized logs from the 2 prior incidents (CloudFront, ALB, WAF) and the current AWS architecture. Design: 6 Sigma detection rules (mix L7 floods, slow-POST, low-rate di…
- Ddos Defense
- Detection Engineering
- Waf
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Intrusion Detection at the Edge for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier's OT Network
Receive an anonymized network diagram for 1 plant, sample pcap (packet capture) traffic of Modbus + OPC UA + PROFINET flows, and a list of 10 known OT attack scenarios from MITR…
- Intrusion Detection
- Ot Security
- Zeek
Network Security - CodeBeginnerNew
Refactor a Tangled Java Pricing Engine With Design Patterns
Start from a provided Java 21 codebase with the legacy PricingEngine class, 38 example fixtures (input cart, expected price), and one failing test demonstrating a bug from last …
- Python Or Javascript
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
Object-Oriented Programming and Design - CodeBeginnerNew
Design and Implement a C++ Telemetry Aggregator With Inheritance
Implement a TelemetrySource abstract base class with virtual sample() and timestamp() methods, 6 concrete subclasses (one per sensor family), and a TelemetryBus that polymorphic…
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
- Inheritance
- Polymorphism
Object-Oriented Programming and Design - CodeIntermediateNew
Upstream a Strategic Patch to a Major CNCF Project
Pick a published roadmap area on the chosen project (instructor will sanity-check the choice). Read the project's CONTRIBUTING.md, RFC template, governance model, and the 3 most…
- Oss Contribution
- Rfc Design
- Pr Etiquette
Open Source Contribution and Maintainership - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Sustainable Maintainership Model for a Mid-Tier OSS Project
Read the project's last 12 months of issues, PRs, and Discord/Slack archives (anonymized). Identify: top maintainer-burnout signals, the 5 highest-friction issue categories, and…
- Governance Models
- Maintainership
- Issue Triage
Open Source Contribution and Maintainership - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a User-Space File System with FUSE for a Storage Startup
Build a FUSE driver (your choice of Rust + fuser crate or Go + bazil/fuse) that proxies POSIX operations to the startup's existing S3-compatible REST API (mock provided). Suppor…
- File Systems
- Fuse
- Rust Programming
Operating Systems - ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Product Discovery Sprint for a Vertical SaaS in Logistics
Recruit 8 dispatchers across 5 freight-forwarder customers (intro emails will be facilitated). Run 30-minute interviews using the Opportunity-Solution Tree (a tree-shaped diagra…
- Product Discovery
- User Interviews
- Opportunity Solution Tree
Product Management for Software Engineers - StrategyBeginnerNew
Build a Pricing-and-Packaging Proposal for a Developer-Tools Startup
Analyze the current 80 customers (anonymized export provided: usage by metric, plan, MRR, churn risk). Pick a value-metric tied to customer-visible value (likely: monitored serv…
- Pricing Strategy & Elasticity
- Model Packaging
- Three Statement Modeling
Product Management for Software Engineers - StrategyIntermediateNew
Write a Product Strategy for an AI-Native Customer-Support Startup
Conduct desk research on the customer-support automation market (TAM, growth rate, competitor landscape — Zendesk, Intercom, the new AI-native cohort like Decagon and Sierra). I…
- Product Strategy
- Market Analysis
- Positioning
Product Management for Software Engineers - StrategyIntermediateNew
Build a Business Case for a Hardware-Software Bundle at an IoT Vendor
Build a 5-year financial model (Excel or Google Sheets) covering 3 scenarios: hardware-only, SaaS-only, bundled-per-asset. Account for hardware-revenue recognition (upfront vs a…
- Business Case
- Three Statement Modeling
- Pricing Strategy & Elasticity
Product Management for Software Engineers - StrategyBeginnerNew
Plan a Feature Launch with Marketing and Sales Coordination
Design a 6-week launch plan with 4 workstreams: product readiness (acceptance criteria, beta cohort selection), marketing (positioning, content, customer email), sales enablemen…
- Product Launch
- Cross Functional Coordination
- Go To Market
Product Management for Software Engineers - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement a Persistent Immutable List for a Collaborative-Editing Startup
Implement in Python (or TypeScript / Kotlin). Build a persistent immutable list with operations: get, set, append, pop, slice, concat. Use structural sharing (32-way vector trie…
- Data Abstraction
- Recursion
- Persistent Data Structures
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