Intermediate Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the intermediate level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Geopolitical Strategy for a UK Fintech Expanding to the Middle East
Students will work in teams to produce a geopolitical market entry strategy for PayBridge. The strategy must include a comparative analysis of the UAE and Saudi Arabia, a risk m…
- Market Entry Strategy
- Geopolitical Risk Mitigation
- Regulatory Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Designing a Service Cloud Strategy for a Renewable Energy Company
You are a Salesforce consultant leading a team of 3 students. Your task is to deliver a Service Cloud blueprint for SunGrid Energy. The solution must include case routing rules,…
- Service Cloud
- Case Management
- Knowledge Base
Salesforce and CRM Platforms - CodeIntermediateNew
Port a Monte Carlo Engine to CUDA for an Asset Manager
Profile the CPU MC engine to identify the kernel candidates: path generation (Brownian motion + correlated factors), payoff evaluation, aggregation. Port to CUDA: use cuRAND for…
- Cuda
- Monte Carlo
- Gpu Programming
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Decompose a CRM Monolith into Bounded Services
Analyze the monolith using NDepend or similar (provided). Identify the top 4-6 candidate service boundaries based on coupling + business-capability seams (likely: Quotation, Pol…
- Strangler Fig Pattern
- Service Decomposition
- Csharp Programming
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Market Entry Strategy for a Tokyo D2C Cosmetics Brand in Europe
You are a strategy consultant hired by GlowTokyo. Your task is to analyze the European cosmetics market, identify the most viable entry mode (e.g., joint venture, e-commerce, or…
- Market Analysis
- Cross Cultural Strategy
- Entry Mode Analysis
Open coursework - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Containerized Model Inference on Kubernetes for a Fintech
You receive a pre-trained credit-risk model (a LightGBM model file) and a sample request payload. Containerize a FastAPI inference service, deploy to EKS or GKE (a single-zone c…
- Kubernetes
- Containerization
- Autoscaling
Cloud Computing for Data and ML - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Bayesian Credit-Scoring Model for an Emerging-Markets Fintech
You receive an anonymized snapshot of about 30,000 historical applications with features (income proxy, tenure on platform, prior loans, region) and the binary default outcome. …
- Bayesian Learning
- Credit Scoring
- Model Evaluation
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Apply Hexagonal Architecture to a Payments Microservice
Design the settlement domain in pure Kotlin (no Spring imports, no framework annotations). Define ports for: payment-network adapter (one inbound per network — SEPA, Faster Paym…
- Hexagonal Architecture
- Ports And Adapters
- Kotlin Programming
Domain-Driven Design - CodeIntermediateNew
Specification-First Refactor of a Payments Module
Read the module, the last 12 months of incidents touching it, and the existing tests. Write a 6-page specification using a precondition / postcondition / invariant format per pu…
- Specifications
- Refactoring
- Characterization Testing
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 - ResearchIntermediateNew
Multi-Task Learning for a Healthtech Triage Model
You receive 40,000 anonymized de-identified intake-form records with two labels: urgency tier (4 classes) and routed sub-specialty (12 classes). Train (1) two independent classi…
- Multi Task Learning
- Transfer Learning
- Transformer
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- 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
LoRA Fine-Tune a 7B LLM for Legal-Clause Extraction
You receive a curated extraction dataset (2,000 train, 500 val, 500 test contracts with span-level labels across 12 clause types) and a fine-tunable 7B base model (e.g., Llama-3…
- Lora
- Fine Tuning
- Parameter Efficient Tuning
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Secure-by-Design Review of a Microservices Auth Subsystem
Read the 18-page proposed auth-service design (Next.js BFF, FastAPI auth-service, Postgres for sessions + refresh, Redis for short-lived tokens, integration with Auth0 for OIDC)…
- Secure Design
- OWASP Asvs
- Oauth2
Software Security - StrategyIntermediateNew
Plan TaskFlow's Market Entry into Southeast Asia
Your task is to read the four items in the provided materials and produce a defensible market entry recommendation for TaskFlow's leadership. Using the TaskFlow company case fil…
- Game Theory
- Market Entry
- Competitive Analysis
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Force-Controlled Polishing Skill for a Watchmaker
You receive simulated polishing trajectories from the manufacturer's robot, force-sensor logs from 20 master-craftsman demonstrations, and a quality-rubric (mirror finish 1-5) f…
- Impedance Control
- Force Control
- Manipulation
Robotics - CodeIntermediateNew
Port a Legacy C Image Pipeline from x86 to ARM64
Clone the 12k-line C codebase (provided). Set up an ARM64 cross-compile toolchain (clang or gcc). Identify portability issues: endianness assumptions, pointer-size casts, inline…
- C Programming
- Manual Memory Management
- Pointers
Imperative and Low-Level Programming - StrategyIntermediateNew
Migrating from Relational to NoSQL for a Social Media Startup
You are given a simplified relational schema of SnapVibe's current database (users, posts, comments, likes). Your task is to: (1) analyze the limitations of the relational model…
- Nosql
- Mongodb
- Data Migration
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Carbon Credit Tokenization Plan for EcoToken
Working only from the materials provided to you — EcoToken's internal situation file, the registry-and-credit data extract, and the regulatory constraints brief — produce a toke…
- Blockchain
- Smart Contracts
- Solidity
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Sequence Model for Wearable-Telemetry Sleep Staging at a Healthtech
You receive 220 nights of wearable telemetry from 60 subjects with PSG ground-truth labels. Train three sequence models: an LSTM baseline, a 1D-CNN+GRU hybrid, and a small trans…
- Sequence Models
- Lstm
- Transformers
Deep Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Multi-Tenant Schema Migration for a Series-B HR SaaS
Design a 4-phase migration: (1) add new columns + tables, dual-write on every workflow mutation, (2) backfill 3.4 TB in chunks of around 50k rows per minute with throttling and …
- Multi Tenant Architecture
- Schema Migration
- Dual Write
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Description-Logic Reasoner for Insurance-Policy Coverage Checks
You receive 50 representative coverage rules in plain English (from the current rule engine) and a sample of 1,000 anonymized claim cases with the current engine's outcomes (cov…
- Description Logics
- Owl
- Reasoning
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Technical-Debt Quantification for an Acquired SaaS
Run a static-analysis sweep (SonarQube + custom dependency scripts) and a 4-hour structured walkthrough with the acquired team's 3 senior engineers. Categorize debt into: code-q…
- Technical Debt
- Code Analysis
- Estimation
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