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- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Real-Time Fraud-Scoring Stream for a Card Issuer
Produce a design proposal for a fraud-scoring stream that ingests authorization events, maintains a 30-day rolling feature state per customer, applies a pre-trained scoring mode…
- Apache Flink
- Kafka Streams
- Stream Processing
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CodeIntermediateNewDrift-Detect and Self-Heal a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Estate
Using the estate-case-file and the baseline-policy-spec, design a drift-detection and self-heal rollout for all 28 single-customer clusters built on ArgoCD continuous-sync (auto…
- Argocd
- Kyverno
- Drift Detection
Open coursework- DesignIntermediateNew
Design Parallel I/O for a Climate-Simulation Data Pipeline
Analyze the current I/O pattern: each MPI rank writes its own file via serial HDF5 (the classic anti-pattern). Design a single shared file using parallel HDF5 + MPI-IO with coll…
- Mpi Io
- Parallel Hdf5
- Lustre Filesystem
High-Performance and Scientific Computing - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Performance Model for a Molecular-Dynamics Job
Build an analytical performance model covering: compute time per step (function of atom count + cutoff + interaction type), inter-rank communication cost (function of decomposit…
- Performance Modeling
- Gromacs
- Benchmark Design
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Voice-First Picking Model for a Warehouse Tablet App
Using the partner-warehouse case file and the touch-app interaction inventory, map the current picking workflow and select the eight highest-frequency interactions to move to vo…
- Interaction Design
- Voice Ui Design
- Contextual Inquiry
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Persona-Aware Dashboard for a Smart-Building Platform
Examine the case record and argue for a single design direction. Read the 'Current dashboard specification' to understand what exists and where it overloads each role; mine the …
- User Centered Design
- Interaction Design
- Persona Design
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Accessibility-First Redesign of an Airport AR Navigation Feature
Using the current feature description in the provided augmented-reality navigation specification, map the existing experience against the two provided legal and technical standa…
- Design For Accessibility
- Interaction Design
- Contextual Inquiry
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Write a Linux Device Driver for a Custom Sensor Board
Read the SPI sensor datasheet (provided) and the existing user-space hack (around 600 lines of C). Write a Linux kernel module (target kernel 6.6 LTS) that registers a hwmon dev…
- C Programming
- Os Interfaces
- Kernel Development
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Author a SOC 2-Ready Incident Response Playbook for Kestrel Pay
Using the Kestrel Pay company dossier and the current pinned-message 'playbook' (both provided), author a four-phase playbook — Prepare, Detect & Analyze, Contain/Eradicate/Reco…
- Incident Response
- NIST Sp 800 61
- Security Governance
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Clear a Fortune-100 Privacy Review for an HR-Tech Vendor
Using the product fact-sheet, the stakeholder interview notes, the buyer's 14-concern brief, and the official texts of the General Data Protection Regulation and the EU Artifici…
- Compliance
- Privacy Regulation
- GDPR
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Privacy-by-Design Review for a Smart-City Data Platform
Map the new module's end-to-end data flow (sensors -> ingestion -> analytics -> dashboards -> exports). Run a Privacy Impact Assessment against OECD privacy principles + per-ten…
- Privacy By Design
- Privacy Regulation
- Compliance
Information Security Management and Governance - StrategyIntermediateNew
Ship a Lean Flood-Insurance MVP and Convert Two Nordic Pilots
Working only from the materials provided, frame the build using Build-Measure-Learn from the Lean Startup reference, and name the single riskiest assumption you will test first …
- Lean Startup
- Venture Building
- Mvp Design
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- ResearchIntermediateNew
Emerging-Tech Scouting Sprint for a Family-Office Innovation Fund
Working from the provided seed company list, founder-interview guide, readiness-scoring rubric, and thesis-memo template, run a structured scouting sprint for both sectors. For …
- Emerging Tech Scouting
- Innovation Management
- Venture Thesis
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Automated Planner for a Field-Service Maintenance Schedule
Model the scheduling problem as either PDDL (Planning Domain Definition Language) or a constraint-satisfaction problem using a solver like OR-Tools. Define: actions (visit_site,…
- Planning
- Constraint Satisfaction
- Python Programming
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS Elective) - 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 Programming
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - CodeIntermediateNew
Edge-Inference Pipeline for a Smart-Factory Vibration Monitor
Architect a pipeline that runs on an ESP32-S3 + STM32 combo (provided): (1) sample 3-axis accelerometer at 3.2 kHz, (2) compute windowed FFT features on-device every 1s, (3) run…
- Edge Computing
- Embedded Systems
- Sensors And Actuators
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - DesignIntermediateNew
Wireless Sensor-Network Design for a Vineyard Microclimate Study
Spec the network: 60 LoRaWAN sensor nodes + 2 gateways (TheThingsStack indoor + outdoor gateway choice), star topology with possible relays. Node hardware: ESP32 + LoRa + sensor…
- Sensor Networks
- Embedded Systems
- Lorawan
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - DesignIntermediateNew
Real-Time Traffic-Sensor Fusion for a Smart Intersection
Design a fusion architecture: per-modality timestamping (NTP-disciplined within 50ms), per-modality confidence weighting (modality-specific noise model), Kalman-filter or partic…
- Sensor Fusion
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Edge Computing
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Offline-First Flutter App for HVAC Field Service Technicians
Build a Flutter prototype that runs against the mock API described in the Mock API Specification, seeded with the Work Orders Seed Dataset and the Asset History and Parts Catalo…
- Mobile Development
- Flutter
- Offline First Design
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Clinician-Grade HealthKit Cardiac Rehab iOS App
Build a SwiftUI app targeting iPhones running iOS 17 or later that requests the four HealthKit read permissions named in the product brief (PM-1), reads the last seven days of d…
- Mobile Development
- Ios Swift
- Healthkit
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Unify a Logistics Driver App and Add Bluetooth Vehicle Telematics
Working only from the materials provided, build a React Native app (Expo bare workflow) that replaces the three legacy flows documented in the case file — optimized route view, …
- Mobile Development
- React Native
- Ble
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Detect Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on a National News Platform
Receive an anonymized 90-day export of comments (user_id, article_id, timestamp, like_count, reply_to_id) and basic user metadata (registration date, login pattern bucket). Buil…
- Network Science
- Community Detection
- Graph Analysis
Network Science and Computational Social Science - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Map Knowledge Diffusion Across an Open-Source Project Ecosystem
Using the de-identified contributor activity export (material 1), build a temporal contributor-project network from the recorded events, then collapse it into a contributor-to-c…
- Network Science
- Temporal Networks
- Graph Analysis
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