Computer Science
Data Engineering & Pipelines Challenges
Data Engineering & Pipelines challenges put you inside the work of moving data reliably from source to insight. You'll develop skills in ETL Fundamentals, Data Pipeline Design, and Data Wrangling, and you'll write SQL for Analytics and dbt Models while building Airflow DAGs that orchestrate the flow.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — Kafka event streaming, Streaming-first design, Lakehouse architecture, and Data observability — working with Apache Spark and Snowflake or BigQuery query optimization the way data teams actually do. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cost-Profile a Spark Job at Scale and Cut the Bill in Half
Receive the PySpark job (around 1,800 lines), 5 nights of Spark UI + EMR metrics, and the EMR cluster config. Profile to find the top 3 cost drivers (likely candidates: skewed j…
- Apache Spark
- Finops & Cost Optimization
- Etl Pipelines
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Diagnose Churn Drivers for a B2B SaaS Workflow Tool
You receive three CSV exports: 18 months of weekly product-usage events for about 1,800 accounts, the full support-ticket history, and account firmographics (industry, size, pla…
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Data Wrangling
- Feature Engineering
Applied Data Analysis and Practical Data Science - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Saga Orchestrator for a Cross-Border Payments Flow
Model the payment flow as a saga: 6 forward steps + their compensations. Choose between orchestration (Temporal) and choreography (event-driven via Kafka) and defend the choice.…
- Saga Pattern
- Temporal Workflow
- Compensation Logic
Event-Driven Architecture Develop in-demand professional skills.
Each challenge names the skills it strengthens. Over time, your profile fills with the competences a hiring manager would actually look for.
Why Ewance
- DesignBeginnerNew
Optimizing Inventory for a Toronto D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to design a multidimensional data model (star schema) for inventory management, create an ETL pipeline to load sample data (provided as CSV files), and develop an O…
- Data Warehousing
- Etl Fundamentals
- Olap
Business Intelligence
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.
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