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- DesignIntermediateNew
Designing a Humanitarian Supply Chain for Flood Relief in Bangladesh
As a humanitarian logistics analyst, you must develop a supply chain strategy for AidNow's flood response. Tasks include: selecting warehouse locations, choosing transportation …
- Humanitarian Logistics
- Supply Chain Design
- Risk Assessment
Logistics and Transportation Management - DesignIntermediateNew
Authentication + RBAC for a Multi-Workspace SaaS
Design the auth architecture: identity provider (managed), session model (JWT with rotation), workspace-membership claims, RBAC permission model (4 default roles, custom-role ca…
- Authentication
- Rbac
- Sso
Engineering Software as a Service - DesignFoundationalNew
Create a Remote Work Policy for a 15-Person Sustainable Fashion Brand
Your task is to draft a remote work policy for the brand. Include guidelines on work hours, communication norms, virtual collaboration tools, well-being initiatives, and sustain…
- Remote Work Policy
- Employee Wellbeing
- Sustainability
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Replace Nightly Batch Loads with Near-Real-Time Reporting at a Pump Manufacturer
Using the system inventory in the provided case-file, classify all nine source systems by the most appropriate way to capture their changes: log-based change data capture where …
- Change Data Capture
- Kafka
- Debezium
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Domain-Driven Design Aggregate Redesign for a Lending API
Facilitate a 1-day event-storming workshop with 8 participants from product, engineering, risk, and operations to surface domain events. From the events, identify 3-5 bounded co…
- Domain Driven Design
- Event Storming
- Bounded Contexts
Software Design and Design Patterns - DesignFoundationalNew
Redesign a Vet-Clinic SaaS Database to Third Normal Form
Using the current schema dump and the eight most-common reporting queries provided to you, design a replacement database structure for VetLedger. First, produce an entity-relati…
- Data Modeling
- Normalization
- SQL
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Security Policy Overhaul for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You are the new IT security manager. Review current policies (provided in a brief), identify gaps against SOC 2 trust service criteria, and produce a new set of 5 core policies …
- Security Policy Development
- Soc 2 Compliance
- Vendor Risk Management
Open coursework - 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
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Optimizing IT Service Management for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to design a complete incident management process for CloudFlow using ITIL best practices. Model the process in BPMN, define incident priority levels (P1-P4) with re…
- Itil
- Incident Management
- Service Desk Design
Business Process Management - DesignSeniorNew
Digital Innovation Lab for a Regional Bank
Your task is to design a blueprint for the innovation lab. Define its structure (e.g., hub-and-spoke, virtual team), governance (e.g., stage-gate process), and funding model. Pr…
- Innovation Lab Design
- Regulatory Compliance
- Legacy System Integration
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design and Pitch an LLM-Powered Tutoring Product
As a 4-person team, deliver: (1) a product concept anchored in Jobs-to-be-Done (when X, I want Y so I can Z); (2) a Figma prototype of the full flow; (3) a partially functional …
- Product Design
- User Research
- LLM Evaluation
AI Software Engineering Group Project - 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
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- 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
Observability for a Microservices Payments Platform
Design the observability architecture: OpenTelemetry traces from 38 services into Tempo, structured logs via Loki, RED (rate, errors, duration) metrics via Prometheus, SLOs defi…
- Observability
- Opentelemetry
- Slo Design
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Designing a Feedback Culture for a Remote-First Sustainable Fashion Brand
Research best practices in feedback culture from business psychology (e.g., feedback orientation, psychological safety). Design a feedback system that includes tools, training, …
- Feedback Culture
- Psychological Safety
- Remote Work
Business and Industrial Psychology - DesignIntermediateNew
Passive Intrusion Detection for an Auto Supplier's Plant Network
Using the provided plant network diagram, design a passive (listen-only) sensor architecture that pairs Zeek and Suricata at the office-to-factory boundary plus three production…
- Intrusion Detection
- Ot Security
- Zeek
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design the Onboarding for a Consumer-AI Copilot App
You receive: current funnel analytics (1M trial sign-ups over the last 90 days, current activation rate, current D1/D7/D30 retention), a competitor teardown deck, and the founde…
- Product Design
- User Onboarding
- Experimentation
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Prototype an Explainability Panel for a Fintech Credit Assistant
You receive: the model's top-10 SHAP-style feature contributions per customer (a feature-importance technique that breaks an ML prediction into per-input contributions), the cur…
- Explainability Design
- Human Ai Interaction
- Figma Prototyping
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Cloud Architecture Design for a Multi-Tenant SaaS Platform
Deliver a comprehensive cloud architecture design covering: (1) Multi-tenancy strategy (shared database with row-level security vs. schema-per-tenant vs. database-per-tenant — j…
- Cloud Computing
- It Security
- Web Development
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Quality Metrics Program for a Medical-Device Software Team
Read the team's QMS (Quality Management System) documents and the IEC 62304 software lifecycle requirements. Design a metric catalog of 12-15 metrics covering process (review-co…
- Quality Metrics
- Iec 62304
- Process Improvement
Software Quality and Process Improvement - 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 - DesignBeginnerNew
Generative AI Content Strategy for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
You must first define EcoWeave's brand voice by analyzing their existing content (provided). Then, design a set of prompts and a workflow (e.g., using ChatGPT or a no-code AI to…
- Prompt Engineering
- Content Strategy
- Brand Voice
Data-Driven Prototyping with AI - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Versioning Strategy for a Public REST API
Receive the OpenAPI spec for the 14 endpoints, 8 months of partner-support tickets tagged 'breaking-change', and the partner-mix breakdown (which endpoints which partner uses). …
- API Design
- REST
- API Versioning
API Design and GraphQL - DesignBeginnerNew
Threat-Model the Patient-Intake App for a Telemedicine Startup
Working only from the three materials provided — the system architecture overview, the patient-intake data-flow description, and the SOC 2 control-mapping table — produce a STRI…
- Threat Modeling
- STRIDE
- Risk Assessment
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