Intermediate Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the intermediate level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Self-Service Internal Developer Platform on Backstage
Stand up a Backstage instance (Docker-Compose for local, EKS for prototype hosting). Build 3 software templates: (1) New Go microservice (repo + CI + ECS service + Terraform + b…
- Internal Developer Platform
- Backstage
- Terraform
Cloud Computing - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Platform Business Model for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to produce a feasibility analysis and a platform launch strategy. You must assess market demand, competitive landscape (e.g., Asana, Monday.com), and internal capab…
- Platform Business Models
- API Economy
- Ecosystem Governance
Digital Transformation - AnalysisIntermediateNew
HR Analytics Dashboard for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You are given a simulated dataset with employee demographics, performance reviews, training records, and exit data. Your task is to build a prototype dashboard (using Excel, Tab…
- Hr Analytics
- Data Visualization
- Workforce Planning
Strategic Human Resource Management - CodeIntermediateNew
Stand Up Contract Testing for a Microservices Backend
Inventory the 18 services and pick the 6 producer-consumer pairs with the most staging breakages in the last 90 days. Stand up a Pact broker (self-hosted or PactFlow trial). For…
- Contract Testing
- Pact
- Microservices Patterns
Software Testing and Quality Assurance 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.
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Circular Economy Business Model for a Fashion Rental Platform
Propose a circular business model for Rent-a-Robe that includes a take-back program, repair service, and resale marketplace. Your deliverable is a 5-slide pitch deck outlining t…
- Circular Economy
- Business Model Innovation
- Three Statement Modeling
Sustainability and Sustainable Business - StrategyIntermediateNew
Market Entry Strategy for a Fintech in Southeast Asia
Your team must analyze the Southeast Asian payments landscape, focusing on Indonesia and Vietnam. You have data on market size, competitor market shares, regulatory frameworks, …
- Market Entry
- Game Theory
- Competitive Analysis
Industrial Economics and Game Theory - StrategyIntermediateNew
IP Strategy for a SaaS Scale-Up Moving to Enterprise
Your task is to create a comprehensive IP strategy report for TaskFlow. This should include an audit of existing IP, recommendations for patenting key algorithms (if feasible), …
- Intellectual Property
- Patent Strategy
- Trade Secrets
IT Law and Data Protection - CodeIntermediateNew
Distributional Embeddings for a Multilingual Legal Search
Use a public multilingual corpus (e.g., MultiEURLEX or a subset of EUR-Lex) plus a small hand-built test set of around 100 cross-lingual query-passage pairs. Fine-tune (or evalu…
- Distributional Semantics
- Multilingual NLP
- Sentence Embeddings
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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.
- CodeIntermediateNew
AI-Driven Sales Lead Scoring for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up
You will receive a sample dataset of 200 leads with fields like company size, industry, email open rates, and website visits. Using AI tools, you must craft prompts to generate …
- Prompt Patterns
- Lead Scoring
- Data Analysis
Data-Driven Prototyping with AI - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Voice-First Interaction for a Hands-Free Warehouse App
Spend half a day shadowing pickers at a partner warehouse (NDA pre-signed). Map the picking workflow and identify the 8 highest-frequency interactions that should go voice-first…
- Interaction Design
- Voice Ui Design
- Contextual Inquiry
Human-Computer Interaction - ResearchIntermediateNew
Evaluate a Knowledge-Graph-Augmented Recommender
You receive permission to use the public MovieLens 1M dataset plus a derived item-KG (movie -> genre, director, decade) built from Wikidata. Train two recommenders: a matrix-fac…
- Knowledge Graph Embeddings
- Recommender Systems
- Benchmarking
Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web - CodeIntermediateNew
Gaussian Process Regression for Wind Farm Power Curves
You receive 12 months of 10-minute SCADA data (wind speed, air temperature, power output) for 30 representative turbines, plus the manufacturer's published curve. Fit a GP with …
- Gaussian Processes
- Kernel Methods
- Uncertainty Quantification
Probabilistic Machine Learning 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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- DesignIntermediateNew
Drift-Detect + Self-Heal a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Estate
Enable ArgoCD auto-sync with selfHeal + prune across all 28 clusters. Add Kyverno cluster policies enforcing baseline standards (registry, resource limits, network policy). Buil…
- Argocd
- Kyverno
- Drift Detection
GitOps and Continuous Delivery - StrategyIntermediateNew
Develop a Competence Development Program for a SaaS Scale-Up
Design a competence development program for the scale-up. Identify key competencies needed for the enterprise shift, propose learning interventions (e.g., workshops, mentoring, …
- Competence Development
- Learning Program Design
- Skills Gap Analysis
New Work and Future of Work - CodeIntermediateNew
Mine Health-Forum Posts for Symptom Trend Signals
You receive 6 months of crawled public posts (~400,000 posts, already cleaned of usernames) and access to a UMLS API for normalisation. Build a pipeline that does (1) symptom ex…
- Text Mining
- Biomedical NLP
- Umls Normalization
Linguistic Engineering and Language Technologies - ResearchIntermediateNew
Emerging-Tech Scouting Sprint for a Family-Office Innovation Fund
Per sector, map the landscape (around 30 active companies, segment by stage + business model + technical approach). Score companies on a technology-readiness-level (TRL) + comme…
- Emerging Tech Scouting
- Innovation Management
- Venture Thesis
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - StrategyIntermediateNew
Build a 3-Year IT Strategy for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Inventory the current IT estate from anonymized exports (CMDB extract, license registry, 4 plant CIO interviews, last 18 months of incident data). Identify 5 strategic themes (l…
- It Strategy
- It Governance
- Business It Alignment
IT Management and Governance - StrategyIntermediateNew
Brand Crisis Simulation for a Fast-Food Chain
You are the brand crisis team at QuickBite. Within 48 hours of the video's release, you must draft a public statement, an internal memo, and a 30-day crisis management plan. The…
- Crisis Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Brand Equity
Brand Management - ResearchIntermediateNew
Planning Under Uncertainty for a Last-Mile Delivery Fleet
Build a simulator of the 50-block area with stochastic travel times conditioned on weather and time-of-day. Implement value iteration (for a small state space), MCTS (Monte Carl…
- Planning Under Uncertainty
- Markov Decision Processes
- Monte Carlo Tree Search
Automated Planning - DesignIntermediateNew
Stand Up a Feature Store for a Series-B Fintech
Pick one priority feature group (recommend the 25 transaction-history features used by the fraud model). Define the offline source-of-truth (likely Snowflake or BigQuery), the o…
- Feature Store
- Feature Engineering
- Airflow Dags
ML Engineering and Production ML - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Pricing Strategy for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to analyze TaskFlow's current pricing, customer segments, and willingness to pay, then propose a tiered pricing model with clear feature differentiation. Constraint…
- Pricing Strategy & Elasticity
- Segmentation
- Financial Analysis
Management Consulting - CodeIntermediateNew
Diagnose Equipment Failures with a Bayesian Network
You receive 90 days of sensor logs (vibration, spindle temperature, coolant flow, ambient humidity), the maintenance log of 180 failure events labeled by root cause, and a short…
- Bayesian Networks
- Probabilistic Inference
- Parameter Learning
Probabilistic Graphical Models - CodeIntermediateNew
Map a Climate-Policy Corpus to Linked Open Data
You receive 12,000 policy PDFs and a benchmark of 200 documents with manually linked entities (places, organizations, policies). Build a pipeline that runs NER, candidate-genera…
- Entity Linking
- Linked Open Data
- Wikidata
Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web - PresentationIntermediateNew
Digital Innovation Pitch: AI-Powered Logistics Optimization
Research the state of AI in logistics (route optimization, demand prediction, computer vision for warehouse automation). Select one innovation area and develop: (1) Problem stat…
- Digital Innovation
- Tech Enabled Business Transformation
- Cloud Computing
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