Information Technology Challenges
Explore information technology challenges on Ewance to develop skills companies are actively hiring for. Work on briefs covering cloud, infrastructure, security, and platform engineering.
Most Popular
- 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Parallelize a Monte Carlo Risk Engine for a Quant Fund
Starting from the provided single-threaded C++ engine module (engine_scalar.cpp) and the provided benchmarking and equivalence specification (parallelization-spec), profile the …
- Parallel Algorithms
- Shared Memory
- Work Stealing
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Raft Consensus Layer for Multi-Region Active-Active Replication
Using the engineering brief, the production fault profile, and the starter Go module declared in the provided materials, design and build a Raft-based consensus layer and prove …
- Distributed Consensus
- Raft
- Fault Tolerance
Open coursework Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- CodeIntermediateNew
GPU-Parallel Graph Coloring for an EDA Tools Vendor
Implement Jones-Plassmann graph coloring in CUDA (or HIP if AMD hardware available). Input: a 12-million-node graph in CSR format (compressed sparse row). Output: a valid colori…
- Parallel Algorithms
- Gpu Programming
- Cuda
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Lock-Free Concurrent Skip List for a Time-Series Database
Using the baseline implementation and benchmark harness in the provided code module (baseline-skiplist-rs), design and build a lock-free skip list that replaces the mutex-guarde…
- Lock Free
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Rust Programming
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 - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Golden-Path Service Template for a Scaling SaaS Platform Team
Using the current-state assessment (provided), the platform team's golden-path requirements specification (provided), and the baseline deployment-metrics dataset (provided), des…
- Platform Engineering
- Golden Paths
- Backstage
Open coursework - Browse challenges
Explore role
Product Manager
Ship product that solves real user problems. Combine user research, prototyping, and stakeholder alignment to turn ambiguous briefs into measurable wins — the role at the centre of modern software teams.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Stand Up a Backstage Developer Portal for a Frankfurt Fintech
Using the provided service inventory, ownership map, and rollout brief, build and deploy a Backstage portal on the company's existing Kubernetes platform and populate its catalo…
- Backstage
- Platform Engineering
- Service Catalog
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a 90-Day Cognitive-Load Reduction Plan for Six Squads
Using the cognitive-load self-assessment instrument, the squad tool-surface inventory, and the platform stakeholder brief provided to you, design a cognitive-load reduction prop…
- Platform Engineering
- Cognitive Load
- Team Topologies
Open coursework - 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
- Self Service
Platform Engineering - DesignIntermediateNew
Design and Run a Platform-as-Product Quarterly Review
Using the platform product catalog (platform-product-catalog) and the Head of Platform's mandate (head-of-platform-brief), design a complete, repeatable quarterly review for the…
- Platform Engineering
- Platform As Product
- Facilitation
Open coursework Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- CodeIntermediateNew
Add Differential Privacy to a Mental-Health App's Analytics Dashboard
Wrap the analytics module in `analytics_module.py` (provided) with a differential-privacy layer built on OpenDP. Implement epsilon-delta accounting: add Laplace noise to counts …
- Differential Privacy
- Privacy Budget
- Python Programming
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Assess Secure Cross-Bank Fraud Computation for a Four-Bank Consortium
Using the de-identified situation in the consortium case file and the two synthetic per-bank datasets (the bank suspicious-account lists and the merchant fraud-marker tallies), …
- Secure Computation
- Mpc
- Cryptography
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Federated Learning for a Government Statistics Office
Use Flower as the FL framework. Simulate 8 municipalities each with a partition of a synthetic wage dataset (provided, 1M rows, EU-Labour-Force-Survey schema). Train a gradient-…
- Federated Learning
- Differential Privacy
- Python Programming
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - 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
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Three-Tier Pricing Proposal for an Observability Startup
Using the anonymized customer export and the current-pricing memo in the provided materials, design a replacement pricing model and prove it pays. First, analyze the 80 customer…
- Pricing Strategy
- Packaging
- Financial Modeling
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Write a Product Strategy for an AI-Native Customer-Support Startup
Conduct desk research on the customer-support automation market (TAM, growth rate, competitor landscape — Zendesk, Intercom, the new AI-native cohort like Decagon and Sierra). I…
- Product Strategy
- Market Analysis
- Positioning
Product Management for Software Engineers - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Bundled Pricing Business Case for an Industrial IoT Vendor
Using the company facts in the company case file, the historical deal records in the deal-history dataset, and the required sections listed in the board business case template, …
- Business Case
- Financial Modeling
- Pricing Strategy
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Lead a Coordinated AI Feature Launch for an HR Software Startup
Using the company background brief and the draft feature specification provided, design a six-week launch plan covering four parallel workstreams: product readiness (acceptance …
- Product Launch
- Cross Functional Coordination
- Go To Market
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a CodeQL Query Pack to Catch Logging of Personal Data
Using the provided personal-data source and logging-sink specification, write CodeQL data-flow queries for Java and Python that detect personal data travelling from a source (re…
- Static Analysis
- Codeql
- Data Flow Analysis
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Symbolic-Execution Test-Generation Pipeline for a Date-Time Library
Design a generation pipeline that turns the public parsing and arithmetic surface of the supplied library module into branch-covering test inputs using a symbolic-execution engi…
- Symbolic Execution
- Klee
- Test Generation
Open coursework
How it works
From brief to credential, in six steps.
Step 01
Browse challenges aligned to your studies.
Step 02
Accept the one that fits your goals.
Step 03
Work through it with AI Copilot guidance.
Step 04
Submit for structured evaluation.
Step 05
Earn a verified credential.
Step 06
Add it to LinkedIn with one click.
Industry teams behind a decade of practitioner briefs
Hiring from this pool?
Sponsor a challenge and meet candidates through actual work.
Industry teams can shape briefs around the skills they hire for, then evaluate students on rubric-scored deliverables — not resumes.