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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
GDPR + AI Act Compliance Assessment for an HR-Tech Vendor
Audit the candidate-screening product against: GDPR Articles 5, 6, 13, 14, 22, 25, 32, 35; AI Act high-risk-system obligations (Annex III - employment); plus the customer's spec…
- Compliance
- Privacy Regulation
- GDPR
Information Security Management and Governance - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Privacy-by-Design Review for a Smart-City Data Platform
Map the new module's end-to-end data flow (sensors -> ingestion -> analytics -> dashboards -> exports). Run a Privacy Impact Assessment against OECD privacy principles + per-ten…
- Privacy By Design
- Privacy Regulation
- Compliance
Information Security Management and Governance - ResearchIntermediateNew
Validate a Developer-Tooling Startup Idea from a Research Group
Recruit 18 backend developers across fintech, B2B SaaS, and devtools (6 per vertical), all currently writing test fixtures by hand. Run 30-minute problem-discovery interviews us…
- Opportunity Identification
- Customer Discovery
- Venture Building
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - StrategyIntermediateNew
Build a Lean MVP for a Climate-Adaptation SaaS
Frame the MVP using Build-Measure-Learn: what's the minimum product that lets you test the riskiest assumption (likely: will SMEs pay annually vs per-event for parametric flood …
- Lean Startup
- Venture Building
- Mvp Design
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Spin-Out Strategy for a Robotics Lab's Warehouse Picking IP
Map each path: (1) OEM licensing (model royalty terms, time-to-deal, IP protection); (2) founder-led startup (cap table, hiring needs, fundraising path, 18-month milestones); (3…
- Venture Building
- Research To Product
- Strategic Options Analysis
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - ResearchIntermediateNew
Emerging-Tech Scouting Sprint for a Family-Office Innovation Fund
Per sector, map the landscape (around 30 active companies, segment by stage + business model + technical approach). Score companies on a technology-readiness-level (TRL) + comme…
- Emerging Tech Scouting
- Innovation Management
- Venture Thesis
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - 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
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - StrategyIntermediateNew
Build a 3-Year IT Strategy for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Inventory the current IT estate from anonymized exports (CMDB extract, license registry, 4 plant CIO interviews, last 18 months of incident data). Identify 5 strategic themes (l…
- It Strategy
- It Governance
- Business It Alignment
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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.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Application Portfolio Rationalization at a Global Bank
Receive a CMDB extract of 412 applications with cost, technology stack, business owner, and usage telemetry (anonymized). Score each application on business value (revenue contr…
- Portfolio Rationalization
- It Governance
- Cost Analysis
IT Management and Governance - AnalysisIntermediateNew
IT Consulting Engagement: Cost-Out Diagnostic for a Logistics Group
Receive an anonymized spend cube (vendor, category, country, contract end date), an infra utilization extract (compute, storage, network), and the application portfolio. Conduct…
- It Consulting
- Cost Analysis
- Vendor Management
IT Management and Governance - CodeIntermediateNew
Offline-First Mobile App for Field Service Technicians
Build a Flutter prototype against a mock API serving work orders, asset history, and a parts catalog. Implement: local-first storage with Drift (or Isar) for relational data and…
- Mobile Development
- Flutter
- Offline First Design
Mobile Application Development - 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
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- ResearchIntermediateNew
Map Knowledge Diffusion in a Global Open-Source Ecosystem
Pull (or use a provided anonymized export of) the last 24 months of commit + PR + issue data for 60 projects in the foundation's portfolio. Build a temporal contributor-project …
- Network Science
- Temporal Networks
- Graph Analysis
Network Science and Computational Social Science - ResearchIntermediateNew
Computational Newsroom: Analyze Crisis Information Flow on Social Platforms
Receive an anonymized 72-hour dataset of posts, reposts, quotes, and replies (10M events) tagged to the public-health alert. Build a temporal repost-and-reply network at minute …
- Computational Journalism
- Temporal Networks
- Network Science
Network Science and Computational Social Science - DesignIntermediateNew
Detection Engineering for Cloud DDoS Against a Public-Sector Portal
Receive sanitized logs from the 2 prior incidents (CloudFront, ALB, WAF) and the current AWS architecture. Design: 6 Sigma detection rules (mix L7 floods, slow-POST, low-rate di…
- Ddos Defense
- Detection Engineering
- Waf
Network Security - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Network Privacy Posture Review of a Fintech's Internal Service Mesh
Receive an anonymized service inventory (110 services with owner, data classification, traffic volume buckets) and a sample of east-west traffic logs (5 high-volume service pair…
- Network Privacy
- Mtls
- Service Mesh
Network Security - CodeIntermediateNew
Roll Out OpenTelemetry Tracing Across a Microservices Fintech
Receive an anonymized service map (90 services, payment-critical path of 12), a runtime mix (Node.js, Go, Java), and existing logging/metrics setup. Define: an OTel SDK adoption…
- Distributed Tracing
- Opentelemetry Instrumentation
- Sampling Strategies
Software Observability - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Supply-Chain Hardening: SLSA-Aligned Build Pipeline for an Apache Project
Audit the project's current release pipeline (GitHub Actions, release-script). Map the current state against the SLSA v1.0 requirements (source, build, provenance, dependencies)…
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Slsa
- Sigstore
Open Source Contribution and Maintainership - 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
Implement Bulk Synchronous Parallel PageRank on a 1.5B-Edge Graph
Choose either Apache Spark + GraphX (Pregel API) or a vanilla MPI + C++ implementation. Run 25 iterations of PageRank on the 1.5B-edge graph (graph file format provided: CSR par…
- Parallel Algorithms
- Bsp
- Graph Algorithms
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - 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 - PresentationIntermediateNew
Run a Platform-as-Product Quarterly Review for a 40-Squad Org
Define the platform's 8 products (CI service, golden-path templates, observability stack, secret management, namespace provisioning, on-call tooling, internal portal, paved-road…
- Platform Engineering
- Platform As Product
- Facilitation
Platform Engineering - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Anonymous Communications Threat-Model for a Whistleblower Platform
Document the current stack's threat model using the LINDDUN framework (linkability, identifiability, non-repudiation, detectability, disclosure of information, unawareness, non-…
- Anonymous Communication
- Threat Modeling
- Tor
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