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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Penetration-Test the TLS Configuration of an Edge Fleet
Receive read-only access to a 50-node representative sample (anonymized). Scan with testssl.sh + Qualys SSL Labs (where reachable) + a custom Go tool you write to test specific …
- Tls
- Applied Cryptography
- Penetration Testing
Applied Cryptography - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Streaming Pipeline for Real-Time Fraud Detection
Receive 30 days of anonymized card-transaction events (around 240M events total), the team's existing batch features (cardholder behavior summaries), and a pre-trained fraud-sco…
- Stream Processing
- Kafka Event Streaming
- Flink
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - 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
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - 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
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- 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 - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cost-Profile a Spark Job at Scale and Cut the Bill in Half
Receive the PySpark job (around 1,800 lines), 5 nights of Spark UI + EMR metrics, and the EMR cluster config. Profile to find the top 3 cost drivers (likely candidates: skewed j…
- Apache Spark
- Finops & Cost Optimization
- Etl Pipelines
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Build and Audit an ERC-20 Vesting Contract for a DeFi Startup
Implement an ERC-20 vesting contract with: per-beneficiary cliff (default 12 months) + linear vesting (default 36 months), revocable allocations (for founders only), pause funct…
- Solidity
- Smart Contracts
- Foundry
Blockchain and Decentralized Systems Engineering - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Cross-Chain Bridge Protocol with Honest Threat Model
Read the Vitalik 'cross-chain interoperability' essay and survey 3 existing bridge designs (lock-and-mint, atomic-swap, optimistic-rollup-native). Design your protocol around a …
- Blockchain Protocols
- Smart Contracts
- Solidity
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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.
- CodeSeniorNew
Implement a Proof-of-Stake Consensus Mechanism in Rust
Read the Casper FFG paper (Buterin + Griffith, 2017) and design a simplified PoS implementation in Rust: 21 validators, 32-slot epochs, two-phase finality (justify, then finaliz…
- Consensus Algorithms
- Blockchain Protocols
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
Blockchain and Decentralized Systems Engineering - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an Indexer for an On-Chain DeFi Analytics Product
Receive the 6 protocols' ABIs + the team's required event coverage spec (around 40 event types). Build a TypeScript indexer using viem + Postgres: subscribe to new blocks via We…
- Blockchain Indexing
- Typescript
- Ethereum
Blockchain and Decentralized Systems Engineering - StrategyBeginnerNew
Strategy Brief on Layer-2 Choice for a Web3 Gaming Studio
Survey the three L2 categories with 2026-current numbers: per-transaction cost at expected game throughput (around 50 TPS sustained, 500 TPS event spikes), finality latency (mat…
- Layer 2 Protocols
- Blockchain Protocols
- Research
Blockchain and Decentralized Systems Engineering - CodeBeginnerNew
Containerize a Legacy Java Monolith and Deploy to ECS
Receive the Java 8 monolith source (around 320k lines), the current Tomcat + Apache HTTPD config, and 30 days of production traffic logs. Containerize the application (multi-sta…
- Containerization
- Docker
- AWS Or Azure
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- 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 - DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Multi-Tenant SaaS Foundation on Kubernetes
Design the multi-tenant model: namespace-per-tenant for compute isolation, per-tenant Postgres schemas inside a shared RDS instance for data, per-tenant S3 prefixes with bucket …
- Kubernetes Orchestration
- Multi Tenancy Architecture
- AWS Or Azure
Cloud Computing - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Self-Service Internal Developer Platform on Backstage
Stand up a Backstage instance (Docker-Compose for local, EKS for prototype hosting). Build 3 software templates: (1) New Go microservice (repo + CI + ECS service + Terraform + b…
- Internal Developer Platform
- Backstage
- Terraform
Cloud Computing - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Lexer and Parser for a Domain Query Language
Take the 1-page grammar sketch and the 12,000-query corpus (anonymized). Hand-write a lexer that emits tokens with source positions (line and column). Build a recursive-descent …
- Lexing
- Recursive Descent Parsing
- Abstract Syntax Trees
Compiler Construction - CodeBeginnerNew
Add Constant Folding and Dead Code Elimination to a Toy Compiler
Fork the repo, read the IR specification (3-address code, register-based, documented in /docs/ir.md). Implement constant folding as an IR-to-IR pass: any operation on literal op…
- Intermediate Representation
- Constant Folding
- Dead Code Elimination
Compiler Construction - CodeIntermediateNew
Design Error Recovery for a Friendly Compiler
Read the existing parser (recursive-descent, in Rust). Design and implement a panic-mode error recovery strategy with synchronization tokens (statement boundary, end of block, s…
- Error Recovery
- Recursive Descent Parsing
- Diagnostic Design
Compiler Construction - CodeIntermediateNew
Compile a Subset of C to WebAssembly
Define a documented C subset: int and bool types, locals, if/else, while, function calls, return. Build a compiler in any host language (TypeScript or Rust preferred) that produ…
- Code Generation
- Webassembly
- Intermediate Representation
Compiler Construction - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Source-to-Source Migration Tool for a Legacy API
Use Python's libcst (concrete syntax tree library) to parse customer code while preserving formatting. For each of the 14 transformations, write a CST visitor that matches the v…
- Abstract Syntax Trees
- Source To Source Transformation
- Python Or Javascript
Compiler Construction - 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
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization - CodeSeniorNew
Auto-Vectorize an Inner Loop for AVX-512
Profile the existing kernel on a 12-dataset benchmark (provided). Pick one of two strategies: (a) add an LLVM IR-level vectorization pass plugged into the existing pipeline, or …
- Vectorization
- Llvm
- Loop Optimization
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization - CodeSeniorNew
Design a Polyhedral Loop-Tiling Strategy for a Tensor DSL
Study the DSL's IR (provided, MLIR-based with linalg-style ops). Choose a tiling strategy (rectangular tiling with cost-modeled tile sizes is the safe baseline; full polyhedral …
- Polyhedral Analysis
- Loop Tiling
- Mlir
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization
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