Business
ESG, Sustainability & Impact Challenges
ESG, Sustainability & Impact challenges put you inside the work of measuring and disclosing how an organization affects the planet and society. You'll build on Climate Basics and ESG Frameworks, run a Materiality Assessment, and carry out GHG Protocol Scope 1 emissions accounting the way sustainability teams actually do.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — GHG Protocol Scope 2 & 3 accounting, CSRD / ISSB Disclosures, transition planning, and air-quality dispersion modeling — backing every claim with ESG data governance and audit-grade documentation, and mapping outcomes to the UN SDGs. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- 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 - CodeSeniorNew
Implement a Proof-of-Stake Consensus Mechanism in Rust
Read the Casper FFG paper (Buterin + Griffith, 2017) and design a simplified PoS implementation in Rust: 21 validators, 32-slot epochs, two-phase finality (justify, then finaliz…
- Consensus Algorithms
- Blockchain Protocols
- Rust
Blockchain and Decentralized Systems Engineering - StrategyBeginnerNew
Build a Credible ESG Governance Framework for Glow & Green
You are a junior ESG consultant engaged by Glow & Green. Using only the de-identified company case file (gg-case-file), the investor ESG demand memo (investor-esg-memo), the cus…
- ESG Frameworks
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Governance Design
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Strategy Brief on Layer-2 Choice for a Web3 Gaming Studio
Survey the three L2 categories with 2026-current numbers: per-transaction cost at expected game throughput (around 50 TPS sustained, 500 TPS event spikes), finality latency (mat…
- Layer 2 Protocols
- Blockchain Protocols
- Research
Open coursework 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
- DesignSeniorNew
Multi-Region Active-Active Architecture for a Gaming Backend
Read the current architecture (single-region: ECS + RDS Aurora + Redis + S3) and traffic mix (around 60 percent APAC, 25 percent NA, 15 percent EU). Design a 3-region active-act…
- Multi Region Architecture
- AWS
- Terraform
Cloud Computing - CodeSeniorNew
Implement Threshold Signatures for a Multi-Sig Custody Service
Read the FROST IETF draft (draft-irtf-cfrg-frost) and the underlying Schnorr signature scheme on the secp256k1 curve. Implement the FROST distributed key generation (DKG) and 3-…
- Applied Cryptography
- Threshold Signatures
- Rust
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Implement a User-Space Shell with Process and Signal Handling
Implement a shell in C (no shell helpers, just POSIX system calls). Required features: read a line, parse it into commands + arguments, handle pipelines with arbitrary chain len…
- System Calls
- Process Management
- Signal Handling
Computer Systems and Organization - CodeBeginnerNew
Tune Autoscaling for a Cost-Sensitive Workload with HPA + KEDA
Receive the service's current Deployment + HorizontalPodAutoscaler config (static 12-20 replicas), 90 days of traffic logs + Kafka-lag metrics, and the SLA (p99 < 250ms, error r…
- Kubernetes
- Autoscaling
- Keda
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - Browse challenges
Explore role
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.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Migrate a 200TB Data Lake from Parquet to Iceberg
Receive an inventory of the 200TB hot tier (around 1,200 tables, around 38 PB of historical data referenced), the current Spark + Trino read patterns, and 6 months of schema-cha…
- Iceberg
- Parquet
- Data Lake
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - DesignBeginnerNew
Backfill Architecture Decision Records for a Mainframe Modernization Program
Work entirely from the three provided materials: the architecture-channel chat log excerpt (architecture-channel-log), the consolidated architecture-review meeting notes (archit…
- Architecture Decision Records
- Technical Debt
- Stakeholder Communication
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Penetration-Test the TLS Configuration of an Edge Fleet
Receive read-only access to a 50-node representative sample (anonymized). Scan with testssl.sh + Qualys SSL Labs (where reachable) + a custom Go tool you write to test specific …
- Tls
- Applied Cryptography
- Penetration Testing
Applied Cryptography - StrategyBeginnerNew
Carbon Footprint Strategy for a San Francisco D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a sustainability consultant hired by Glow Naturally. Your task is to develop a comprehensive carbon footprint assessment and reduction roadmap. Success means delivering …
- GHG Protocol
- Carbon Footprint
- Supply Chain Analysis
Open coursework 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 a Custom Kubernetes Operator for a Multi-Tenant SaaS
Receive the current Helm + bash setup, a description of the per-tenant resources to manage, and the cluster details (EKS 1.29, Strimzi for Kafka). Design a TenantPipeline CRD wi…
- Kubernetes Operators
- Crds
- Kubebuilder
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Exploit and Remediate Eight Web Flaws on a FinTech Practice Range
Using the eight challenge specifications in the provided challenge specification brief and the representative Rails module in the provided vulnerable application source bundle (…
- Web Security
- OWASP Top 10
- Penetration Testing
Open coursework - 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
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Materiality Assessment for a Toronto Craft Brewery
Using the simulated financial statements provided (income statement, balance sheet, and notes), select an appropriate benchmark (e.g., revenue, profit before tax, total assets) …
- Materiality Assessment
- Audit Planning
- Financial Analysis
Auditing and Assurance - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Authenticated Encryption for a Document Service
Design the envelope-encryption hierarchy: customer Key Encryption Key (KEK) held in AWS KMS (Key Management Service), Data Encryption Keys (DEKs) wrapped per document. Use AES-2…
- Applied Cryptography
- Aead
- Key Management
Applied Cryptography - CodeIntermediateNew
Add Idempotency Keys to a Payment Webhook System
Read the current Go webhook-sender code and 30 days of duplicate-delivery incident logs. Design the idempotency scheme: server-generated key per event (UUID v7 — time-ordered), …
- API Design
- Idempotency
- Webhooks
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Change-Data-Capture Pipeline for an E-Commerce Reseller
Receive the MySQL schema (220 tables), 7 days of binlog samples, and the data team's freshness + correctness requirements. Design the CDC pipeline: Debezium for MySQL binlog cap…
- Change Data Capture
- Debezium
- Kafka
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - DesignIntermediateNew
Stand Up a Self-Service Developer Platform on Backstage
Read the company case file, the squad-and-service inventory, and the Platform v1 postmortem, and consult the official Backstage software-templates documentation for the mechanic…
- Internal Developer Platform
- Backstage
- Terraform
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Lightweight ESG Framework for a Cosmetics Startup
Using the Lumora company case file and the supply-chain and operations dataset provided, design a lightweight ESG framework Lumora can run in-house. Your proposal must: (1) iden…
- ESG Scoring
- Materiality Assessment
- Sasb Standards
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cost-Optimize a Misshapen Kubernetes Cluster
Receive 30 days of cluster metrics (Prometheus + AWS Cost Explorer exports), Helm releases, and PodDisruptionBudgets per namespace. Profile: identify the top 3 cost drivers (lik…
- Kubernetes
- Cost Optimization
- AWS
Cloud Computing - CodeBeginnerNew
Reverse-Engineer a Stripped Binary to Restore Linking Symbols
Receive the stripped shared object (Linux ELF, x86-64, ~280KB), a crash dump with 12 frames of indecipherable addresses, and 4 years of partial git history with some related (bu…
- Reverse Engineering
- Linking And Loading
- Machine Code
Open coursework - 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
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.
Related skill families
Browse all skillsIndustry teams behind a decade of practitioner briefs
Hiring from this pool?
Sponsor a challenge and meet candidates through actual work.
Industry teams can shape briefs around the skills they hire for, then evaluate students on rubric-scored deliverables — not resumes.