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Launch Plan for a Bootstrapped Journaling App Across Two App Stores
Your task is to act as the launch product manager and turn the team's raw position into an executable plan. Read the launch-readiness file (LAUNCH-FILE) to understand the team, …
- App Distribution
- Store Listing
- Mobile Analytics
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design an Offline-First Android Field-Survey App for Wildlife Rangers
Using only the four provided materials, design a native Android application in Kotlin (with Jetpack Compose for the interface) that targets the rangers' rugged handsets describe…
- Mobile Development
- Android Kotlin
- Sensors
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
Open coursework - 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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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Harden a Medium-Voltage Grid Against Storm-Season Failures
Build a network model of the medium-voltage service area from the provided node and edge datasets (roughly 1,600 nodes and 1,900 links, each link carrying capacity, install year…
- Network Science
- Graph Analysis
- Resilience Analysis
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Post-Quantum TLS and PKI Migration Plan for a Cross-Border Bank
Working only from the materials provided, complete three connected tasks. First, using the anonymized TLS endpoint inventory and the PKI hierarchy diagram, score all endpoints o…
- Tls
- Pki
- Post Quantum Cryptography
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Wireless Security Audit and Hardening for a Telco's Public Wi-Fi
Your analysis task is built entirely on three provided materials: the 80-access-point configuration inventory, the 30-day authentication (RADIUS) log extract for those same acce…
- Wireless Security
- Wpa3
- Eap
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Privacy Posture Review of a Fintech's Internal Service Mesh
Work only from the four supplied materials: the anonymized service inventory, the sample east-west traffic flow records, the current mesh policy export, and the public Istio sec…
- Network Privacy
- Mtls
- Service Mesh
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Refactor a Tangled Java Pricing Engine With Design Patterns
Start from a provided Java 21 codebase with the legacy PricingEngine class, 38 example fixtures (input cart, expected price), and one failing test demonstrating a bug from last …
- Java
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Design and Implement a C++ Telemetry Aggregator With Inheritance
Implement a TelemetrySource abstract base class with virtual sample() and timestamp() methods, 6 concrete subclasses (one per sensor family), and a TelemetryBus that polymorphic…
- Cpp
- Inheritance
- Polymorphism
Object-Oriented Programming and Design - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Diagnose Route-Optimize Latency Tail Using Distributed Traces
Working only from the four supplied materials — the slow-trace export, the service map, the customer complaint log, and the infrastructure health readings — examine why the slow…
- Distributed Tracing
- Performance Analysis
- Tempo
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Flatten the Datadog Bill for a Stockholm Gaming Studio
Working only from the materials provided, audit Stagelight Games' observability spend and produce a defensible plan to flatten it. Use the metric inventory export to rank the to…
- Cardinality Control
- Datadog
- Cost Optimization
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Open-Source License Audit and 60-Day Remediation Plan for Lumen Observability
Work only from the four items in provided_materials. Start with the dependency inventory (the 'Lumen dependency inventory' dataset), which lists every open-source package, its d…
- Oss Licensing
- Sbom
- Supply Chain
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design an Upstream Contribution to a CNCF Service-Mesh Project
Using the internal fork dossier (case-file) for the business context, the prior rejection feedback, and the targeted roadmap area, design an upstream contribution that a careful…
- Oss Contribution
- Rfc Design
- Pr Etiquette
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Diagnose a Deadlock in a Multi-Threaded File Indexer
Clone the indexer repo (provided), set up reproduction with thread-sanitizer and helgrind, and produce a deterministic deadlock test case in under 5 minutes of runtime. Diagnose…
- Synchronization
- Deadlock Analysis
- C Programming
Operating Systems - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Design a Custom Page-Replacement Policy for a Tier-1 Cloud Provider Simulator
Use the provided simulator (Python harness wrapping a C++ page-cache model) and the team's 3 anonymized workload traces (web-cache, key-value store, batch analytics). Implement …
- Memory Management
- Page Replacement
- Benchmarking
Operating Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a User-Space File System with FUSE for a Storage Startup
Build a FUSE driver (your choice of Rust + fuser crate or Go + bazil/fuse) that proxies POSIX operations to the startup's existing S3-compatible REST API (mock provided). Suppor…
- File Systems
- Fuse
- Rust Programming
Operating Systems - 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
Open coursework - 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 - 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 - CodeSeniorNew
Bulk Synchronous Parallel PageRank for a Web-Graph Lab
Working from the lab situation record (`lab-case-file`), implement 25 iterations of PageRank under a Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) model using either Apache Spark with GraphX …
- Parallel Algorithms
- Bsp
- Graph Algorithms
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Threat-Model and Hardening Proposal for a Whistleblower Intake
Using the current-stack dossier and the CTO mandate brief, build a threat model of the existing intake using the LINDDUN privacy-threat framework (linkability, identifiability, …
- Anonymous Communication
- Threat Modeling
- Tor
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
GDPR Article 25 Privacy-By-Design Review for a HealthTech API
Review the API specification (OpenAPI 3, provided, 42 endpoints). For each endpoint: identify data categories handled (special-category health data, identifiers, traffic data), …
- GDPR
- Privacy By Design
- API Design
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Product Discovery Sprint for Logistics Dispatch Software
Using the company-brief and the customer-recruitment-packet, recruit and interview eight dispatchers across the five named freight-forwarder customers (the warm introduction ema…
- Product Discovery
- User Interviews
- Opportunity Solution Tree
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