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Curriculum RL for a Simulated Drone Inspection Task
You receive a PyBullet-based wind-turbine inspection simulator with parameterizable wind, blade orientation, and sensor noise. Design a 3-stage curriculum: (1) hover near a stat…
- Ppo
- Curriculum Learning
- Deep Rl
Reinforcement Learning - DesignSeniorNew
Multi-Region Active-Active Architecture for a Gaming Backend
Read the current architecture (single-region: ECS + RDS Aurora + Redis + S3) and traffic mix (around 60 percent APAC, 25 percent NA, 15 percent EU). Design a 3-region active-act…
- Multi Region Architecture
- AWS Or Azure
- Terraform
Cloud Computing - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Optimizing Ad Spend for a D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a data analyst at Glow & Grow. Using the provided dataset (simulated), perform an exploratory data analysis to understand trends in ad performance. Build a regression mo…
- Data Analysis
- Regression
- Data Visualization
Data Analytics for Business - ResearchIntermediateNew
Design a Capability Evaluation for an Open-Weights Coding Model
Pick a recent open-weights coding model (e.g., a Qwen, DeepSeek, or Llama variant). Design an evaluation set of around 40 coding tasks across 4 buckets: standard benign coding, …
- Capability Evaluation
- Safety Evaluation
- LLM Evaluation
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Namespace-Provisioning Self-Service
Design and build a Backstage scaffolder that lets a squad request a namespace (specifying environment, owners, expected scale). The scaffolder generates a pull request to a GitO…
- Platform Engineering
- Kubernetes Orchestration
- Self Service
Platform Engineering - StrategyIntermediateNew
Designing a Service Cloud Strategy for a Renewable Energy Company
You are a Salesforce consultant leading a team of 3 students. Your task is to deliver a Service Cloud blueprint for SunGrid Energy. The solution must include case routing rules,…
- Service Cloud
- Case Management
- Knowledge Base Attachment
Salesforce and CRM Platforms - StrategyBeginnerNew
Spec the AI Stack for an Indoor Service Robot Roadmap
You will research and write a 6-page AI-stack strategy spanning navigation (build vs. buy a SLAM stack), manipulation (in-house RL vs. licensed Vertical-AI APIs), voice (cloud A…
- Ai Workforce Strategy
- Build Vs Buy Analysis
- Roadmap Design
Robotics - DesignIntermediateNew
Migrate a 200TB Data Lake from Parquet to Iceberg
Receive an inventory of the 200TB hot tier (around 1,200 tables, around 38 PB of historical data referenced), the current Spark + Trino read patterns, and 6 months of schema-cha…
- Iceberg
- Parquet
- Data Lake
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Valuing a Johannesburg D2C Cosmetics Startup
Conduct a valuation of GlowUp using the Venture Capital Method, Scorecard Method, and a comparable transactions analysis. Assume a target return of 10x and a 70% probability of …
- Startup Valuation
- Term Sheet Analysis
- Three Statement Modeling
Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Finance - CodeIntermediateNew
Ship a Streaming RAG Endpoint with Caching and Fallbacks
You will build a FastAPI service exposing one POST /chat endpoint that (1) streams tokens via Server-Sent Events, (2) caches identical (system_prompt, query, retrieved_context) …
- LLM API Integration
- Streaming
- Response Caching
LLM Application Development - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Change-Data-Capture Pipeline for an E-Commerce Reseller
Receive the MySQL schema (220 tables), 7 days of binlog samples, and the data team's freshness + correctness requirements. Design the CDC pipeline: Debezium for MySQL binlog cap…
- Change Data Capture
- Debezium
- Kafka Event Streaming
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - DesignFoundationalNew
Ideation Workshop for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
You are an innovation facilitator hired by EcoThreads. Your task is to plan and execute a virtual ideation workshop for 12 participants (design, marketing, supply chain, and cus…
- Ideation
- Workshop Facilitation
- Circular Economy
Innovation Management Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Detect Sensor Drift for a Field Inspection Robot Fleet
You receive 60 days of telemetry from 12 robots, including IMU readings, camera exposure stats, and the inspection-quality scores produced downstream. Define drift signals (roll…
- Anomaly Detection
- Change Point Detection
- Sensor Fusion
Robot Perception and Autonomy - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cost-Optimize a Misshapen Kubernetes Cluster
Receive 30 days of cluster metrics (Prometheus + AWS Cost Explorer exports), Helm releases, and PodDisruptionBudgets per namespace. Profile: identify the top 3 cost drivers (lik…
- Kubernetes Orchestration
- Finops & Cost Optimization
- AWS Or Azure
Cloud Computing - StrategyBeginnerNew
Go-to-Market Strategy for Dublin D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to develop a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for GlowDublin's entry into the UK. You have 4 weeks to complete this analysis. Constraints: no physical retail sto…
- Market Analysis
- Competitive Analysis
- Go To Market Strategy
Strategy (MBA) - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Hybrid Search for an Enterprise RAG Knowledge Base
You receive 50,000 internal documents (anonymized policy memos, regulation excerpts, internal FAQs) plus a 300-query benchmark with binary relevance labels for the top-10 return…
- Hybrid Search
- Bm25
- Dense Retrieval
Information Retrieval and Search - CodeSeniorNew
Port a CPU Monte-Carlo Simulator to GPU for an Energy Trader
Receive the existing simulator (C++17 + OpenMP, around 5,000 lines), the test book (around 8,000 spread options), and access to an H100 80GB. Port to CUDA: random-number generat…
- Gpu Programming
- Cuda
- Monte Carlo
Advanced Concurrency and Parallel Computing - DesignIntermediateNew
FMEA for SaaS Platform Migration at a 40-Person Scale-Up
You are provided with a system architecture overview and a list of potential failure modes from the engineering team. Your task is to complete an FMEA worksheet: identify failur…
- Fmea
- Risk Assessment
- Mitigation Strategy
Quality and Productivity Management - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Multilingual Customer-Email Classifier
You receive 28,000 labeled emails (skewed toward English and Mandarin). Try at least two approaches: (1) a fine-tuned multilingual transformer (XLM-RoBERTa or mDeBERTa) and (2) …
- Text Classification
- Multilingual NLP
- Hugging Face Transformers
Natural Language Processing - AnalysisIntermediateNew
OSS License Audit and Remediation Plan for a Series-B Dev-Tools Startup
Receive an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) from the build pipeline (CycloneDX JSON) for 14 services and 3 SDKs. Run automated classification (Syft + ScanCode or FOSSA), then m…
- Oss Licensing
- Sbom
- Supply Chain Optimization
Open Source Contribution and Maintainership - 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 - CodeBeginnerNew
Train a Word-Alignment Model for Low-Resource Catalan-Aranese
You receive a 35,000-sentence Catalan-Aranese parallel corpus plus a 1,200-pair manually annotated word-alignment test set. Train (1) a classic statistical alignment baseline (e…
- Alignment
- Neural Mt
- Low Resource Mt
Machine Translation - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Secure-by-Design Review of a Microservices Auth Subsystem
Read the 18-page proposed auth-service design (Next.js BFF, FastAPI auth-service, Postgres for sessions + refresh, Redis for short-lived tokens, integration with Auth0 for OIDC)…
- Secure Design
- OWASP Asvs
- Oauth2
Software Security - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Revenue Recognition for a SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to produce a revenue recognition memo for the CloudSync contract. You must apply the ASC 606 five-step model, identify distinct performance obligations (software li…
- Revenue Recognition
- ASC 606
- Contract Analysis
Financial Accounting and Reporting
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