Intermediate Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the intermediate level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Compare Stereo Depth Methods for a Drone Inspection Startup
You receive 500 calibrated stereo pairs from a turbine inspection plus sparse LiDAR ground truth on each pair. Implement (or wrap) three depth estimators: OpenCV Semi-Global Mat…
- Stereo Depth Estimation
- Multi View Geometry
- Model Evaluation
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Hybrid Recommender for a Niche Consumer-AI Music App
You receive listening events (around 240 million plays) plus a content embedding per track (audio + curator tags). Build a collaborative filtering model (ALS or implicit-feedbac…
- Recommender Systems
- Collaborative Filtering
- Content Based Filtering
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - 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
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Canary Deployments via Mesh Traffic Splitting for a Streaming Platform
Set up Flagger with Istio as the traffic provider. Define a canary policy for the playback-API service: 5 percent → 25 percent → 50 percent → 100 percent with 5-minute bake at e…
- Istio
- Flagger
- Canary Deployment
Service Mesh and Microservices Networking 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
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Trade Policy Impact on a Coffee Roaster's Supply Chain
You are a supply chain analyst. Calculate the additional cost per kg of coffee under CBAM using estimated carbon footprints. Evaluate alternative sourcing from countries with lo…
- Trade Policy Analysis
- Supply Chain Management
- Carbon Footprint Estimation
International Economics - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Multimodal Generation Pipeline for a Tourism Operator
You receive 40 sample 30-second videos shot by tour guides, the operator's brand voice doc, and SEO keyword lists for EN/PT/ES. Build a pipeline that (1) extracts a representati…
- Multimodal Generation
- Vision Language Models
- LLM Inference
Generative AI - DesignIntermediateNew
Train a Self-Play Agent for a Card-Game Edtech Demo
Implement a small two-player imperfect-information card game (Kuhn poker or a 3-card simplified Hold'em variant). Implement CFR or CFR+ for the game and run self-play for at lea…
- Counterfactual Regret Minimization
- Self Play
- Game Theory
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Red-Team a Customer-Service Chatbot for Jailbreak Resistance
Use a published taxonomy of jailbreak categories (prompt injection, persona override, encoded payloads, multi-turn escalation, refusal bypass, tool-misuse). For each category, d…
- Red Teaming
- Jailbreak Analysis
- LLM Evaluation
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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.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Recover a Red-RAG Enterprise Implementation Mid-Flight
Pull 7 months of project artifacts (Jira, status reports, change requests, meeting minutes, time-tracking). Interview 6 people across the delivery team + 3 from the client side.…
- Project Recovery
- Estimation
- Scope Management
Software Project Management - CodeIntermediateNew
Deploy SDN-Based Network Slicing for a Telco Operator
Receive the current transport architecture (P4-programmable switches, ONOS controller cluster), the 3 customer-class SLAs (consumer: best-effort 50 Mbps; enterprise IoT: 5 Mbps …
- Sdn
- Onos
- Mininet
Advanced Computer Networks - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Tune Database Consistency for a Ride-Hailing Match Engine
Working only from the materials provided, analyse why the matching glitch appears under load and argue for a consistency policy per query class. Start from the cluster topology …
- Consistency Models
- Cassandra
- Distributed Tracing
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Build an OWL Ontology for a Pharma R&D Knowledge Base
You receive a CSV-form starter knowledge base (around 4,000 compounds, 600 targets, 1,200 assays) and a list of 12 competency questions the scientists currently can't answer wit…
- Ontology Design
- Owl
- Knowledge Representation
Fuzzy Logic, Knowledge Representation, and Symbolic Reasoning Build a verifiable portfolio.
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Wi-Fi 6E Site Survey + Capacity Plan for a Hospital
Import floor plans for 4 buildings (around 38,000 m2 total) into Ekahau or equivalent. Run a predictive survey targeting -65 dBm RSSI in patient rooms + -60 dBm in operating the…
- Wifi 6e
- Rf Planning
- Site Survey
Open coursework - 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…
- Spark
- Distributed Systems
- Performance Profiling
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Monetary Policy Impact on a SaaS Scale-Up's Expansion
You are a strategy consultant hired by DataFlow's CEO. Your task: (1) Analyze the current monetary policy stance of the Bank of England and at least two Southeast Asian central …
- Macroeconomic Analysis
- Monetary Policy
- International Finance
Global Economy and Macroeconomics for Managers - ResearchIntermediateNew
Differential Fuzzing Campaign on a Production C Compiler Backend
Using the incident case file and the campaign scope brief, stand up a Csmith-based generator that produces at least 200,000 random but valid C programs across the two-week windo…
- Fuzzing
- Differential Testing
- Test Case Minimization
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Compile a C-Like Subset to WebAssembly for a Game Runtime
Using the studio runtime constraints brief, the five example scripts, and the runtime host harness declared in the provided materials, build a command-line compiler that reads o…
- Code Generation
- Webassembly
- Intermediate Representation
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a 5-Stage Pipelined RISC-V Core in Verilog
Implement the 5-stage pipeline with: hazard detection unit, forwarding paths (EX/MEM to EX, MEM/WB to EX), pipeline stalls for load-use hazards, and a simple static branch-not-t…
- Pipelining
- Hazard Detection
- Verilog
Computer Architecture - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Kanban Flow System for a Platform Team
Map the platform team's current workflow (intake to deploy) and design a Kanban board with 5-7 columns, explicit WIP limits per column, and a class-of-service swimlane for emerg…
- Kanban
- Flow Metrics
- Process Design
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Go-to-Market Strategy for a B2B SaaS Scale-up
You are a strategy consultant for TaskFlow. The company currently has 2000 self-serve customers (average $500/yr) and wants to target enterprise accounts (average $50k/yr). You …
- Decision Analysis
- Value Of Information
- Monte Carlo Simulation
Decision Analysis under Uncertainty - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Data-Driven Customer Segmentation for a SaaS Scale-Up
Using provided anonymized customer data (firmographics, usage patterns, and purchase history), perform cluster analysis to segment the customer base. Develop a targeting strateg…
- Customer Segmentation
- Cluster Analysis
- Data Analytics
Marketing Management - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a SLSA-Aligned, Signed Release Pipeline for an Apache Project
Working only from the materials provided—the project dossier, the current release-pipeline module, the SLSA v1.0 specification, the slsa-github-generator project, the Sigstore d…
- Supply Chain
- Slsa
- Sigstore
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Map Knowledge Diffusion Across an Open-Source Project Ecosystem
Using the de-identified contributor activity export (material 1), build a temporal contributor-project network from the recorded events, then collapse it into a contributor-to-c…
- Network Science
- Temporal Networks
- Graph Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Draft GDPR + AI Act Data Provisions for a Training-Data Vendor
Anchor the work on (1) GDPR Articles 28 (processor obligations) and 32 (security), (2) the EU AI Regulation's data-governance article for high-risk systems, and (3) the EDPB's p…
- Data Protection Law
- Contract Redlining
- Regulatory Analysis
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