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- DesignBeginnerNew
Build a PlatformIO CI Pipeline for a Multi-Board Firmware Team
Use GitHub Actions + PlatformIO. Build matrix across the 6 boards. Run native unit tests + QEMU-based emulation tests for boards that QEMU supports. Set up a self-hosted runner …
- Platformio
- Github Actions
- Embedded Ci
Embedded Systems Engineering - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Bookkeeping Reset for a Lisbon Specialty Coffee Roaster
Using the supplied transaction log (provided as a CSV), record each item using double-entry bookkeeping in a journal, post to a general ledger, and prepare an unadjusted trial b…
- Double Entry Bookkeeping
- Journal Entries
- Trial Balance Preparation
Financial Accounting - ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate Speech Synthesis Voices for an EdTech Storyteller App
You will generate 60 audio clips (20 per vendor) covering 4 story genres and 3 emotional tones. Recruit 15 native Spanish speakers via a remote panel (Prolific or local equivale…
- Tts Evaluation
- Listening Studies
- Mos Scoring
Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Processing - 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
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Mexican Data Privacy Compliance for a Mexico City D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to conduct a LFPDPPP compliance audit for Glow Natural MX. You will review their customer data collection, storage, and processing practices, identify gaps, and rec…
- GDPR
- Data Privacy
- EU Law
International and European Business Law - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Canary Rollout for a Production Recommender
Pick a serving stack (Triton, Seldon Core, KServe, or BentoML). Implement two-model traffic splitting with a configurable percentage (start at 5%). Wire up online metric collect…
- Canary Deployment
- Kubernetes Orchestration
- A/B Testing
ML Engineering and Production ML - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Optimize a Slow Trino Query Over a Petabyte Warehouse
Receive the slow SQL query (around 600 lines), the Trino EXPLAIN ANALYZE output, the underlying Iceberg table schemas (partition specs, sort orders), and 30 days of execution me…
- Trino
- SQL Optimization
- Iceberg
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - DesignFoundationalNew
Building a Cross-Functional Team for Innovation
Your task is to create a team charter and a 3-month team development plan. You must define the team's purpose, roles, norms, and decision-making processes. Additionally, you nee…
- Team Building
- Cross Functional Collaboration
- Conflict Resolution
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Pricing Strategist
Set the price that captures value without leaving sales on the table. Demand modelling, willingness-to-pay research, and the disciplined experimentation that turns pricing into a competitive advantage.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Model Patient Pathways with a Hidden Markov Model
You receive de-identified monthly summaries for 8,000 diabetic patients, each row coding the count of primary-care visits, specialist visits, ER visits, new medications, and HbA…
- Hidden Markov Models
- Em Algorithm
- Time Series Modeling
Probabilistic Graphical Models - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Lock-Free Concurrent Queue for an Event Bus
Implement an MPSC (multi-producer single-consumer) ring-buffer queue in Go using atomic operations only — no mutexes. Prove correctness with the Go race detector across 8 produc…
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Lock Free Programming
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
Data Structures - AnalysisBeginnerNew
A/B Test Landing Page for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You are a marketing analyst at TaskFlow. You have a dataset of 10,000 visitors with columns: group (control/variant), converted (yes/no), time on page (seconds), and device type…
- Hypothesis Testing
- A/B Testing
- Chi Square Test
Statistics for Business - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Cluster Climate-Tech SMB Customers for a Growth Team
You receive a CSV with company size, industry sub-vertical, country, product features adopted, monthly active users, and lifetime value. Standardize features, decide on a cluste…
- Unsupervised Learning
- Clustering
- Dimensionality Reduction
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- 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
Functional Programming - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Valuing a Green Bond Issuance for a Renewable Energy Firm
You are a financial analyst at SunPower Renewables. The company wants to issue a 10-year green bond with a face value of €500 million. Comparable non-green corporate bonds from …
- Bond Valuation
- Fixed Income
- ESG Finance
Financial Markets and Institutions - ResearchBeginnerNew
Plan a Field Study for an Autonomous Sidewalk Delivery Robot
You will design a mixed-methods field study spanning two weeks of observation on a fixed route, intercept surveys with ~80 pedestrians, and 8 short interviews with neighborhood …
- Field Study Design
- Human Robot Interaction
- Research Ethics
Human-Robot Interaction - DesignBeginnerNew
Architecture Decision Records for a Modernization Program
Read 18 weeks of architecture-channel Slack history and 6 architecture-review meeting notes to inventory decisions already made. Backfill 12 ADRs using Michael Nygard's template…
- Architecture Decision Records (Adrs)
- Technical Debt
- Stakeholder Communication
Technical Debt Management - StrategyBeginnerNew
Non-Market Strategy for Boston D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a junior strategy consultant hired by Glow Naturals. Your task is to develop a non-market strategy that includes: (1) a stakeholder mapping and engagement plan, (2) a po…
- Stakeholder Mapping
- Public Policy
- Non Market Strategy
Business, Government and Society - CodeIntermediateNew
Detect Change Points in a Trading Platform's Latency Telemetry
You receive 90 days of per-millisecond latency telemetry across 12 services, plus an incident log of 14 known regressions and 22 known false-alarm-class events. Implement and tu…
- Change Point Detection
- Anomaly Detection
- Time Series Analysis
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting - StrategyIntermediateNew
Risk Register and Budget for a Regulated Mobile Banking Launch
Read the launch brief (28 pages) and the regulatory inventory (12 obligations). Build a top-25 risk register categorized (technical, security, regulatory, vendor, operational) w…
- Risk Management
- Regulatory Planning
- Scheduling
Software Project Management - CodeBeginnerNew
Responsive Web Redesign for SaaS Scale-up
You are to redesign the TaskFlow website's homepage, pricing page, and a new 'Enterprise' landing page. The redesign must be responsive (mobile-first) and built with HTML/CSS/JS…
- Html & Css
- Html & Css
- Python Or Javascript
Web and Mobile Application Development - ResearchIntermediateNew
Build a Generalization-Bound Tutorial for an MLE Onboarding Track
You will produce a Jupyter-notebook tutorial covering (1) sample-complexity intuition, (2) VC-dimension with worked examples for halfspaces and decision stumps, (3) Rademacher c…
- Statistical Learning Theory
- VC Dimension
- Rademacher Complexity
Statistical Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Add Idempotency Keys to a Payment Webhook System
Read the current Go webhook-sender code and 30 days of duplicate-delivery incident logs. Design the idempotency scheme: server-generated key per event (UUID v7 — time-ordered), …
- REST API Design
- Idempotency
- Webhooks
API Design and GraphQL - DesignBeginnerNew
Smart Service Design for Urban Mobility
You are a service designer at EcoRide. Your task is to design a smart subscription service called 'EcoRide+'. Define the service concept, key features, data sources, and revenue…
- Service Design
- Customer Journey Mapping
- Service Blueprint
Smart Services and Digital Products - DesignSeniorNew
Prototype a Gaussian-Splatting Capture App for Consumer AR
You will design and prototype (no app-store deploy required) a 5-step capture-to-share flow: (1) capture about 60 photos with on-screen guidance, (2) upload to a backend job que…
- Gaussian Splatting
- Neural Scene Representation
- Product Design
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