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- StrategyBeginnerNew
IDE-Assisted Refactoring Bootcamp for a Junior Backend Team
Design a 5-day curriculum centered on 10 katas chosen for refactoring-pattern coverage (e.g., Gilded Rose for replace-conditional-with-polymorphism, Tennis kata for extract-meth…
- Refactoring
- Katas
- Ide Tooling
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - DesignIntermediateNew
Migrate a 6TB Social-Commerce Database to a Sharded Topology
Using the supplied schema specification and the seven-day anonymized query-workload export, decide the correct shard key for each table and justify it from observed access patte…
- Database Sharding
- Postgresql
- Vitess
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Adapt Machine Translation to a Niche Domain
Pick an open MT base (NLLB-200 or a strong open M2M model). Build a parallel corpus of around 8,000 sentence pairs from the company's bilingual safety standards. Fine-tune on th…
- Machine Translation
- Domain Adaptation
- Transformers
Natural Language Processing - CodeBeginnerNew
AR Try-On Web Experience for a Mid-Cap Eyewear Retailer
Build a Three.js + MediaPipe Face Mesh prototype that runs in a mobile browser (Safari 17+ and Chrome 119+). Load 12 frame SKUs as glb (Graphics Language Transmission Format Bin…
- Ar Development
- Webxr
- 3d Interaction
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Refresh a Decade of Tangled Architecture Documentation
Using the platform architecture dossier and the documentation inventory provided, propose and produce a consolidated architecture documentation set. First, audit the existing pa…
- Architecture Documentation
- C4 Model
- Arc42
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Solve a Vehicle-Routing Problem with Tabu Search
You receive a week of anonymized daily VRPTW instances (around 800 orders per day, 120 vehicles, hard delivery windows). Implement tabu search with: a route-insertion constructi…
- Tabu Search
- Metaheuristics
- Vehicle Routing
Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristic Search - 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
IT Management and Governance - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Audit a Linux Distribution for Setuid Binary Risk
Mount the provided base image (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS derivative) and inventory all setuid + setgid binaries. For each, classify into 4 buckets: legitimately needed, replaceable with …
- Os Security
- Linux Administration
- Setuid Analysis
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Build an OWL Ontology for a Pharma R&D Knowledge Base
You receive a CSV-form starter knowledge base (around 4,000 compounds, 600 targets, 1,200 assays) and a list of 12 competency questions the scientists currently can't answer wit…
- Ontology Design
- Owl
- Knowledge Representation
Fuzzy Logic, Knowledge Representation, and Symbolic Reasoning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Continuous Delivery Maturity Audit for a Fintech Backend
Collect 8 weeks of deployment data (lead time for changes, deployment frequency, change-failure rate, mean time to restore) per team using their GitHub Actions + Jira + PagerDut…
- Continuous Delivery
- Dora Metrics
- Ci Cd
Agile Methods and Practices - DesignIntermediateNew
Author a Scrollytelling Story on a Three-Week Ad-Fraud Anomaly
Using the internal investigation report (provided) and the anomaly dataset (provided), design a seven-section scrollytelling narrative and build it as a static web page. Structu…
- Narrative Visualization
- Scrollytelling
- Svelte
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Benchmark Visual SLAM Stacks for an Indoor Delivery Robot
You receive 8 indoor rosbag recordings (about 90 minutes total) captured by the robot's stereo camera + Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) plus ground-truth trajectories from an ex…
- Visual Slam
- Sensor Fusion
- Trajectory Evaluation
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- CodeSeniorNew
Build a Unikernel for a Privacy-Focused VPN Provider
Choose either MirageOS or Unikraft as the unikernel framework. Build an image running a minimal WireGuard data plane (existing OCaml or Rust WireGuard reference implementation i…
- Unikernels
- Virtualization
- Wireguard
Advanced Operating Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Ship a Knapsack Battery Allocator for Farm Sensors
Using the device specification (device-spec), the sensing-mode table (sensing-modes), the month of simulated farm days (simulated-farm-days), and the reference greedy heuristic …
- Dynamic Programming
- Algorithm Analysis
- C Programming
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Calibrate a Multi-Camera Rig for Warehouse Robotics
You will design and prototype a calibration workflow using a printed ChArUco board (a chessboard with embedded ArUco markers). You receive a sample dataset of 200 raw frames per…
- Camera Calibration
- Multi View Geometry
- Opencv
3D Vision and Multi-View Geometry - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Secure-by-Default IoT Device Provisioning Flow
Design end-to-end provisioning: factory bootstrap (per-device key pair burned at manufacture), installer flow (BLE-driven activation, Wi-Fi handoff), cloud-side enrollment (mTLS…
- Iot Security
- Secure Provisioning
- Mutual Tls
Cyber-Physical and Cybercrime Topics - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement an SSA-Based Sparse Conditional Constant Propagation Pass
Read the IR specification (SSA form, phi nodes, typed values). Implement SCCP as a single combined worklist algorithm operating on the SSA lattice (top / constant / bottom) and …
- Static Single Assignment
- Dataflow Analysis
- Constant Propagation
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
QLoRA Fine-Tune for a Customer-Support Domain Assistant
You receive 8,000 anonymized support ticket pairs (question -> agent response), the company's product documentation (around 600 pages), and a strong RAG baseline already running…
- Qlora
- Fine Tuning
- RAG
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models - CodeBeginnerNew
Image-Classification Model for a Quality-Control Line at a Bottling Plant
Train an image classifier on 8,000 labeled bottle images (3 defect classes + 'ok'). Use transfer learning from a pre-trained backbone (EfficientNet-B0 or MobileNetV3) — the line…
- Deep Learning
- Supervised Learning
- Ml Applications
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - CodeBeginnerNew
Ship a Churn-Prediction Mini-Project End to End
You receive a 12-month anonymized dataset of subscriber events (logins, lesson completions, payment history, support tickets) for around 200,000 users. Define churn precisely (n…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Evaluation
- Gradient Boosting
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Compliance Strategy for an AI Robo-Advisor in the EU
Anchor the work on the published EU AI Regulation risk classification (limited vs. high-risk systems) and the European Securities and Markets Authority guidelines on robo-advice…
- Ai Governance
- Regulatory Analysis
- Product Strategy
AI and Quantitative Finance - CodeBeginnerNew
Design a Race-Free Cache for a Read-Heavy Service
Implement a thread-safe LRU-bounded cache in Java (or Go — your choice, defend it) with: read-write lock or copy-on-write semantics, get-or-load pattern with single-flight to de…
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Race Conditions
- Single Flight
Concurrent and Parallel Programming - StrategyIntermediateNew
Rebuild a Bank's Requirements Baseline for Audit Defense
Working only from the program case file, the current 400-entry requirements spreadsheet, and the auditor's findings note provided to you, produce a judgment and a working baseli…
- Requirements Management
- Traceability
- Governance
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Reduce Dimensionality on Sensor Streams for a Mid-Cap Robotics OEM
You receive 120 robot-hours of windowed sensor data (5s windows, 240 channels) with labels for normal vs. one of four fault classes. Implement (1) PCA, (2) kernel PCA with an RB…
- Dimensionality Reduction
- Kernel Methods
- Autoencoders
Machine Learning
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