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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Randomized Load Balancer with the Power of Two Choices
Simulate four placement policies on a 24-hour anonymized connection-establishment trace (around 4.1 billion events): (1) random-1, (2) round-robin, (3) P2C with instantaneous lo…
- Power Of Two Choices
- Load Balancing
- Randomized Algorithms
Randomized Algorithms - CodeBeginnerNew
Convert an Imperative Recommendation Service to Pure Functional Style
Take the Python ranking module (around 900 lines). Identify side-effects (DB reads, cache lookups, logging, time) and lift them to the boundary. Rewrite the ranking core in Scal…
- Scala Programming
- Pure Functions
- Functional Core Imperative Shell
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Migrate a Legacy Warehouse to a Lakehouse for an Edtech AI Platform
You receive a Postgres dump of around 50 GB and the current dbt models that produce the student-attempts mart. Land the raw data in object storage (S3 or GCS) as Parquet partiti…
- Lakehouse Architecture
- Delta Lake
- Spark
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - CodeSeniorNew
Linkerd to Istio Migration for a Multi-Cluster Platform
Phase 1: install Istio alongside Linkerd in PERMISSIVE mode (Istio sidecars injected, Linkerd proxies remain). Phase 2: migrate non-critical namespaces first (4 namespaces) by r…
- Istio
- Linkerd
- Service Mesh
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Finetune a Diffusion Model for Sustainable-Fashion Mockups
You receive 1,200 product photos with paired captions and the brand's style guide. Fine-tune a Stable-Diffusion-class base model with LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation, a parameter-effi…
- Diffusion Models
- Lora Finetuning
- Pytorch
Open coursework - ResearchBeginnerNew
Curate a Domain Lexicon for a Climate-Tech NLP Stack
You receive 5,000 policy documents and a benchmark of 200 documents with manually tagged domain terms. Curate a lexicon of ~1,500 terms with (1) canonical English form, (2) Swah…
- Lexical Resources
- Named Entity Recognition
- Spacy
Linguistic Engineering and Language Technologies - CodeBeginnerNew
Performance Optimization for a Slow Storefront
Run Lighthouse + WebPageTest baselines on 3 representative pages (home, product detail, cart). Set up Real User Monitoring (RUM) via Vercel Analytics or web-vitals.js. Ship 5 di…
- Web Performance
- Core Web Vitals
- Nextjs
Web Application Development - CodeBeginnerNew
Ship a Production CI/CD Pipeline for a Fitness-Studio CRM Startup
Using the FlexDesk starter service and Dockerfile, the current-deploy case file, and the pipeline requirements spec provided, build a complete continuous integration and continu…
- Ci Cd
- Github Actions
- Container Signing
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Strategy Analyst
Frame the business question, model the options, build the recommendation. From market sizing to competitive analysis, this role is where strategy consulting meets in-house decision-making.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Instrument a Model Monitoring Stack from Scratch
Pick the priority product (recommend the customer-service RAG assistant, around 40k queries/day). Define monitoring signals: input drift (Evidently/NannyML), output quality (LLM…
- Model Monitoring
- Data Drift Detection
- LLM Evaluation
ML Engineering and Production ML - CodeBeginnerNew
Build an I/O Benchmarking Harness for an Edge Storage Appliance
Receive the appliance specs (4x 7.68TB Gen4 NVMe, ZFS, Linux kernel 5.15), the 3 target workload profiles (4KB random read at QD32, 1MB sequential write at QD8, mixed 70/30 read…
- Io Benchmarking
- Fio
- System Calls
Computer Systems and Organization - CodeIntermediateNew
Instruction-Tune a Small Model for an Edtech Tutor
You receive a 1.5B base model (e.g., SmolLM-1.7B or Qwen-1.8B), permission to use 2 hours of a rented A100, and a curated seed of around 5,000 math-tutoring dialogues. Augment w…
- Instruction Tuning
- Supervised Fine Tuning
- Dataset Curation
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Semantic Segmentation for a Solar-Panel Inspection Drone
Use a publicly-available solar-panel dataset (or the PV-Defect-Detection dataset). Fine-tune a small U-Net or SegFormer-tiny on panel/no-panel pixel-level segmentation. Evaluate…
- Semantic Segmentation
- Cnn
- Transfer Learning
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Rescue a Stalling Scrum Team at a Series-B HealthTech
Review 8 hours of recorded ceremonies and 3 sprints of Jira data (story sizing, carry-over rate, cycle time per story, blocker tags). Diagnose the top 3 root causes (likely cand…
- Scrum
- Agile Metrics
- Retrospectives
Agile Methods and Practices - ResearchBeginnerNew
Ransomware Underwriting Brief for a Zurich Cyber Insurer
Using the underwriting mandate brief, the initial-access listing sample, the Ransomware.live tracker, and the public CISA cybersecurity advisories provided, produce a quarterly …
- Threat Intelligence
- Cybercrime Economy
- Ransomware
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Description-Logic Reasoner for Insurance-Policy Coverage Checks
You receive 50 representative coverage rules in plain English (from the current rule engine) and a sample of 1,000 anonymized claim cases with the current engine's outcomes (cov…
- Description Logics
- Owl
- Reasoning
Fuzzy Logic, Knowledge Representation, and Symbolic Reasoning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
IT Consulting Engagement: Cost-Out Diagnostic for a Logistics Group
Receive an anonymized spend cube (vendor, category, country, contract end date), an infra utilization extract (compute, storage, network), and the application portfolio. Conduct…
- It Consulting
- Cost Analysis
- Vendor Management
IT Management and Governance - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an Ensemble Strategy for Marketing-Mix Modelling
You receive 36 months of weekly marketing-spend and outcome data for 8 sample brands. Build a per-brand baseline gradient-boosting MMM model, then build two more base learners (…
- Ensemble Methods
- Stacking
- Time Series Cv
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an Audio-Visual Speaker Diarization Pipeline
Build the pipeline: face detection + active-speaker detection on video, voice-activity detection + speaker embeddings on audio, then a fusion step that ties tracks to detected f…
- Audio Visual Fusion
- Speaker Diarization
- Active Speaker Detection
Multimodal Machine Learning - DesignIntermediateNew
Map Bounded Contexts for a Mid-Cap Insurance Carrier
Facilitate 2 half-day Event Storming sessions with 18 domain experts using Miro. Capture domain events, commands, actors, and policies. Identify 6 to 10 candidate bounded contex…
- Event Storming
- Bounded Contexts
- Context Mapping
Domain-Driven Design - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Choose the Right Tenant Containment Strategy for an Edge Platform
Working only from the provided materials, reach and defend a containment recommendation. Read the documented incident record (case-file) to understand what triggered the review …
- Containment
- Virtualization
- Wasm
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Vision-Language Search for an E-commerce Catalog
Pick a vision-language encoder (OpenCLIP, SigLIP, or BLIP-2 image-text variant). Index all 600k product images into a vector database (Qdrant/FAISS). Build a query-time pipeline…
- Vision Language Models
- Clip
- Vector Search
Multimodal Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Refactor a God-Object Order Service with Strategy + Command
Read OrderService and the last 18 months of bug tickets touching it. Author a 5-page design document showing the current class diagram, the target Strategy-per-order-type + Comm…
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
- Strategy Pattern
Software Design and Design Patterns - CodeSeniorNew
Build a Distributed Shared Memory Layer Over RDMA for Risk Engines
Build a Distributed Shared Memory library in C++ that exposes a small region interface — allocate a shared region, read from it, write to it, and free it — starting from the pro…
- Distributed Systems
- Rdma
- Consistency Models
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Automate Retraining with a Drift-Triggered MLflow Pipeline
Stand up the pipeline end to end with the team's existing stack (MLflow tracking + model registry, Airflow orchestration). Wire Evidently to compute weekly drift; when drift cro…
- Mlflow
- Airflow
- Data Drift Detection
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