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CodeBeginnerNew
Build an End-to-End Test Suite for a Checkout Flow
Inventory the last 6 months of production checkout incidents (anonymized export provided). Pick the top 7 user journeys (1 happy path + 6 highest-incident edge cases) and write …
- End To End Testing
- Playwright
- Ci Cd
Software Testing and Quality Assurance
CodeIntermediateNew
Description-Logic Reasoner for Insurance-Policy Coverage Checks
You receive 50 representative coverage rules in plain English (from the current rule engine) and a sample of 1,000 anonymized claim cases with the current engine's outcomes (cov…
- Description Logics
- Owl
- Reasoning
Fuzzy Logic, Knowledge Representation, and Symbolic Reasoning
CodeSeniorNew
Build a Bare-Metal Bootloader for a Wearable-Device Prototype
Write a bare-metal C bootloader for the Cortex-M4 target (no operating system, custom linker script, vector-table relocation). Implement: SHA-256 image validation (use a public-…
- C Programming
- Manual Memory Management
- Pointers
Imperative and Low-Level Programming
CodeBeginnerNew
Implement Authentication and Access Control for a Civic Portal
Receive the current Next.js + Express prototype, the data model (residents, requests, documents, audit log), and the 4 staff roles (resident, clerk, supervisor, auditor) with th…
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Rbac
Introduction to Computer Security
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
Fine-Tune a Diffusion Model for a Sustainable-Fashion Mood-Board Tool
You receive around 1,200 curated images of sustainable garments tagged with silhouette and material. Choose a base diffusion model (Stable Diffusion 1.5/2.1 or SDXL) and apply L…
- Diffusion Models
- Fine Tuning
- Ai Image Generation
Deep Generative Models
CodeBeginnerNew
Design a Domain Model for a Library Loan System (Java)
Implement, in Java 21, an Item type hierarchy (Book, AudioBook, Periodical, EquipmentLoan — each with sub-type-specific rules), Member with eligibility logic, Loan as an aggrega…
- Python Or Javascript
- Oo Design
- Domain Modeling
Object-Oriented Programming and Design
CodeSeniorNew
Abstract-Interpretation-Based Configuration Validator for a SaaS Platform
Define an abstract domain capturing relations between configuration fields (e.g. 'if billing.plan = enterprise then features.audit_log = true'). Implement an abstract-interpreta…
- Abstract Interpretation
- Static Analysis
- Rust Programming
Program Analysis
CodeIntermediateNew
Prescriptive Route Optimization for a Sustainable Fashion Logistics Firm
Your team must develop a decision-support tool that recommends optimal delivery routes for EcoThreads' fleet. You'll need to model the logistics network, incorporate constraints…
- Optimization
- Simulation
- Route Planning
Business Analytics
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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.
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CodeFoundationalNew
Edge Detection Pipeline for a Manufacturing QA Camera
Use a small provided dataset of around 200 part images under 3 lighting conditions. Build a classical pipeline using OpenCV: grayscale + adaptive thresholding + Canny edge detec…
- Image Processing
- Edge Detection
- Opencv
Computer Vision (Undergraduate)
CodeIntermediateNew
Build a 30-Day Readmission Risk Model on De-Identified EHR Data
You receive a curated MIMIC-style de-identified EHR cohort (about 28,000 admissions, demographics, comorbidities, labs, prior-admission counts) with 30-day readmission labels. T…
- Ehr Modeling
- Risk Stratification
- Model Calibration
Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biomedicine
CodeBeginnerNew
Build and Ship a Bug-Tracker MVP with Full CI/CD
Week 1: write a 1-page SRS + Figma wireframes for 5 screens (login, bug list, bug detail, file bug, dashboard). Week 2-3: implement with Next.js + Supabase + Tailwind, with unit…
- Full Stack Development
- Requirements Engineering
- Ci Cd
Software Engineering Foundations
CodeBeginnerNew
Implement a Distance-Vector Routing Algorithm
Implement distance-vector routing in Python: each simulated router maintains a distance vector, exchanges vectors with neighbors every 1 second of simulated time, and updates it…
- Routing
- Distance Vector
- Network Simulation
Computer Networks
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
Build an End-to-End ML Pipeline for Loan-Default Prediction
You receive 24 months of historical application + outcome data (about 380,000 rows). Build a pipeline using a workflow orchestrator (Prefect, Kedro, or a simple Makefile chain) …
- Ml Pipelines
- Feature Engineering
- Pipeline Testing
Machine Learning in Practice
CodeIntermediateNew
Fuse LiDAR and Camera for an Autonomous Yard Truck
You receive 6 hours of synced LiDAR + 4-camera ring data from yard operations, with 3D bounding-box labels for pedestrians, forklifts, and containers. Build a late-fusion module…
- Sensor Fusion
- Lidar Perception
- Object Detection
Robot Perception and Autonomy
CodeIntermediateNew
Scale Feature Pipelines for a Hyperscaler Search-Ranking Team
You receive a synthetic-but-realistic 80 GB sample of the ranking events plus the existing Spark pipeline (PySpark) and a Spark UI snapshot from a recent production run. Profile…
- Apache Spark
- Distributed Systems Design
- Performance Profiling
Machine Learning at Scale
CodeSeniorNew
Architecture Patterns Spike for a Real-Time Multiplayer Backend
Implement minimal viable versions of all three patterns in Rust + Go (your pick of split): (1) authoritative server with 20 Hz snapshots and client-side prediction, (2) lockstep…
- Realtime Systems
- Architecture Spike
- Networking Patterns
Software Architecture
CodeIntermediateNew
Forecast Energy Demand for a Nordic Renewable Utility
You receive 5 years of hourly residential-segment demand, hourly weather data (temperature, wind, irradiance), and a calendar of public holidays. Build a probabilistic forecaste…
- Time Series Forecasting
- Probabilistic Modeling
- Feature Engineering
Applied Machine Learning
CodeBeginnerNew
Structured-Output Prompts for Invoice Extraction
You receive 300 real invoice transcripts (already OCR-ed) labeled with 14 target fields, plus the current production prompt and its 12 percent failure log. Design a new prompt u…
- Structured Output
- Json Schema
- Few Shot Prompting
Prompt Engineering
CodeIntermediateNew
Prompt-Injection Hardening for a Customer-Support Agent
You receive the current agent prompt, the pen-tester's 60-attack injection test set (direct prompt injection, indirect via doc content, refusal-bypass, and exfiltration), and a …
- Prompt Injection Defense
- System Prompt Design
- Red Team Operations
Prompt Engineering
CodeIntermediateNew
Migrate Stateful Workloads to StatefulSets with Storage Class Tuning
Receive the current Redis Sentinel topology (3 nodes, ~120GB data), the EBS gp3 baseline performance requirements (3,000 IOPS, 125 MB/s), and the cluster (EKS 1.29 with the EBS …
- Kubernetes Orchestration
- Statefulsets
- Storage Classes
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes
CodeIntermediateNew
De-Identify Patient Images for a Pharma Research Pipeline
You receive 500 internal benchmark images (already cleared for use), each labelled with bounding boxes around face/tattoo/jewelry regions. Build a pipeline that detects these re…
- Image De Identification
- Object Detection
- Privacy Preserving Vision
Image Processing and Computational Imaging
CodeIntermediateNew
Parse and Structure Clinical Discharge Summaries
Combine traditional NLP (section segmentation, sentence parsing) with LLM extraction (small open model + structured-output enforcement). Build the pipeline so every extracted fi…
- Structured Extraction
- Clinical NLP
- Parsing
Natural Language Processing
CodeBeginnerNew
Team Practicum: Build a Crop-Disease Classifier with a Field Partner
You receive a labeled dataset of about 8,000 phone photos plus around 1,200 unlabeled photos from a held-out county. Audit and clean the labels (expect 5-10% noise), train a Mob…
- Transfer Learning
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
- Model Evaluation
AI/ML Practicum and Hands-on Lab
CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Multilingual Text-Mining Dashboard for Hotel Reviews
You receive 200,000 sampled reviews across 9 languages plus an English-only labeled benchmark of 1,000 reviews for sentiment and aspect (rooms, food, staff, value, location). Bu…
- Multilingual NLP
- Sentiment Analysis
- Aspect Extraction
Linguistic Engineering and Language Technologies

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