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- DesignSeniorNew
Migrate a 600K-LOC Monolith to a Modular Monolith
Run static dependency analysis on the monolith (using Packwerk + custom Ruby AST scripts, both available) to surface the current implicit modules and the worst cross-module depe…
- Large Scale Codebases
- Modular Monolith
- Static Analysis
Advanced Software Engineering - DesignIntermediateNew
Event-Driven Architecture for an Order-to-Cash Pipeline
Design an event-driven architecture using a Kafka-like message bus (anonymized: assume a Kafka-compatible event log). Define: 9 event types with Avro schemas, partition strategy…
- Event Driven Architecture
- Kafka
- Saga Pattern
Software Architecture - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Voice-First Picking Model for a Warehouse Tablet App
Using the partner-warehouse case file and the touch-app interaction inventory, map the current picking workflow and select the eight highest-frequency interactions to move to vo…
- Interaction Design
- Voice Ui Design
- Contextual Inquiry
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design the Architecture for a Library Management System
Read the 30-page replacement RFP. Author a 15-page architecture document covering the C4 model levels 1-3 (context, container, component) for the new system: web app, mobile app…
- Software Architecture
- C4 Model
- Data Modeling
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Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Foundation for Veterinary-Clinic SaaS
Using the provided tenant tier specification and tenant roster, design and prototype a multi-tenant model where each tenant gets its own Kubernetes namespace for compute, its ow…
- Kubernetes
- Multi Tenancy
- AWS
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Smart Inventory System for Dubai Cosmetics
Your task is to design a smart inventory system for GlowDubai's warehouse. The system should use weight sensors on shelves and RFID tags on products to track inventory. Data mus…
- Iot Architecture
- Sensor Selection
- Communication Protocols
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Build a Participatory Budgeting Decision Tool for a City Government
You will design and prototype a participatory budgeting tool for one neighborhood pilot with around 30 candidate projects and a fixed EUR 2 million budget. Residents vote on wei…
- Participatory Decision Making
- Decision Support Systems
- Portfolio Optimization
Decision Support Systems and Decision Analysis - DesignFoundationalNew
Improving Patient Intake for a Telehealth Startup
You are a design thinking consultant hired by MediConnect. Your task is to analyze the current intake flow, identify pain points through user research, ideate improvements, prot…
- User Research
- Ux Design
- Prototyping
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Marketing Analyst
Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- DesignBeginnerNew
Design-System Component Library in Figma for a Travel Brand
Audit the existing app across the 7 squads to inventory every variant of each component (screenshot grid). For the 12 priority components, design canonical variants using Figma …
- Design Systems
- Figma
- Component Libraries
User Interface Design and Prototyping - DesignIntermediateNew
Map Bounded Contexts for a Mid-Cap Insurance Carrier
Facilitate 2 half-day Event Storming sessions with 18 domain experts using Miro. Capture domain events, commands, actors, and policies. Identify 6 to 10 candidate bounded contex…
- Event Storming
- Bounded Contexts
- Context Mapping
Domain-Driven Design - DesignBeginnerNew
Redesign Weekly Production Scheduling for a Munich Craft Brewery
Using the historical demand dataset, the production-constraints specification, and the current-operations snapshot provided, design a single weekly production schedule for the t…
- Process Analysis
- Capacity Planning
- Scheduling
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Group Reporting Redesign for a Renewable Energy Conglomerate
Your team must deliver a comprehensive group reporting redesign for EcoPower Group. You will receive an overview of the group structure (subsidiaries, associates, joint ventures…
- Consolidation Process Design
- IFRS Compliance
- Intercompany Elimination
Group Accounting and Consolidation Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Model-Monitoring Dashboard for an MLOps Platform
You receive realistic 30-day metric streams for three production models (a classifier, a regressor, and a ranker) including prediction volume, latency p50/p95, accuracy or RMSE …
- Dashboard Design
- Visual Hierarchy
- Chart Selection
Data Visualization - DesignBeginnerNew
Chain-of-Thought for High-School Math Tutoring
You receive 80 practice problems across 4 topics (linear equations, factoring, systems of equations, quadratics), each with the correct answer and an expected age-appropriate ex…
- Chain Of Thought Prompting
- Zero Shot Prompting
- Few Shot Prompting
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design Hybrid Search for an E-Commerce Product Catalog
You receive 80,000 anonymized product records (title, description, category, attributes) and a sample of 30,000 search log entries with click-through labels. Embed the catalog w…
- Hybrid Search
- Embedding Models
- Bm25
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Multi-Region Online Inference Service with SLAs
Design the topology: model artifact storage, regional inference fleets (Triton, vLLM, or BentoML), traffic router, observability stack (Prometheus + Grafana). Pick a rollout str…
- Inference Serving
- Multi Region Deployment
- Kubernetes
Machine Learning Systems 
DesignBeginnerNewMove an EdTech Platform's 4 Clusters to GitOps with ArgoCD
Using only the materials provided — the migration case file (incident_dossier), the service inventory dataset (service_inventory), and the platform team's target-state brief (ta…
- Argocd
- Kubernetes
- Kustomize
Open coursework- DesignBeginnerNew
Design an Automated Essay-Feedback System
You receive 20 anonymized middle-school essays scored by 2 human teachers on a 4-dimension rubric (structure, evidence, voice, mechanics). Design an LLM-based feedback system th…
- Automated Assessment
- Rubric Design
- Prompt Engineering
AI in Education and Learning Analytics - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Wi-Fi 6E Coverage Plan for a Robot Warehouse
Using the warehouse layout and obstruction inventory, the robot fleet's radio requirements brief, and the existing Wi-Fi survey readout (all provided), design a Wi-Fi 6E access-…
- Wireless Networks
- Wifi 6e
- Site Survey
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Digital Transformation for a Legacy Luxury Hotel
Design a digital strategy for the hotel's guest experience. Constraints: no changes to the physical property; budget of €500,000; must integrate with existing PMS. Success means…
- Customer Journey Mapping
- Digital Strategy
- Luxury Service Design
Luxury Brand Management - DesignIntermediateNew
Rescue a 3x3 Convolution Accelerator on Zynq UltraScale+
Working only from the materials provided, reach and defend an engineering judgment, then deliver the working accelerator that proves it. Read the engineering case file ('vision-…
- Systemverilog
- Fpga
- Axi Stream
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Lean Launch Plan for a Sustainable Fashion App
Your task is to create a lean launch plan document. Define your target customer segment, design a customer discovery interview guide, specify MVP features (no coding required, j…
- Lean Startup
- Customer Discovery
- Mvp Design
Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation - DesignIntermediateNew
Accessibility-First Redesign of an Airport AR Navigation Feature
Using the current feature description in the provided augmented-reality navigation specification, map the existing experience against the two provided legal and technical standa…
- Design For Accessibility
- Interaction Design
- Contextual Inquiry
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Churn Prediction and Retention Proposal for ConnectTel
Using the ConnectTel customer sample (the provided dataset) and the ConnectTel retention context brief, design a proposal for predicting which customers are most likely to leave…
- Logistic Regression
- Classification Metrics
- Feature Selection
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