Engineering Leadership
Tech Lead
If you like the kind of work a Tech Lead does, every challenge here gives you a chance to do that work on a real industry brief.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Introduce XP Practices to a Legacy E-Commerce Codebase
Run a 6-week intervention with the 7-person checkout team. Week 1: baseline (current test coverage, defect-escape rate, story cycle time). Weeks 2-5: introduce TDD on all new co…
- Extreme Programming
- Test Driven Development
- Pair Programming
Agile Methods and Practices - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Sustainable Maintainership Model for a Mid-Tier OSS Project
Read the project's last 12 months of issues, PRs, and Discord/Slack archives (anonymized). Identify: top maintainer-burnout signals, the 5 highest-friction issue categories, and…
- Governance Models
- Maintainership
- Issue Triage
Open Source Contribution and Maintainership - StrategyIntermediateNew
Code Review Bootcamp for an Early-Stage Mobile Team
Read the team's last 100 merged PRs (export provided) and tag the 10 worst review threads (rubber-stamp, bikeshed, missing context). Draft a 4-page code-review guideline coverin…
- Code Review
- Team Coaching
- Process Design
Software Construction - StrategyIntermediateNew
Estimate and Schedule a 16-Week Custom CRM for an Agency Client
Read the 22-page SOW (statement of work). Decompose into a 3-level work-breakdown structure (~80-110 leaf tasks). Estimate each leaf using 3-point (optimistic/most-likely/pessim…
- Estimation
- Scheduling
- Work Breakdown Structure
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Maintenance Plan for a Donated NGO Web Platform
Run an inventory: dependencies (with known-CVE check), secret exposure, test coverage, deploy process, observability, and on-call. Author a 12-month maintenance plan covering pr…
- Software Maintenance
- Dependency Management
- Security Hardening
Software Engineering Foundations - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Risk-Based Test Strategy for a Telehealth Release
Run a risk-scoring workshop with the 3 QA engineers and 2 tech leads (template provided). For each of the 7 modules, score probability of failure, customer impact, and regulator…
- Risk Based Testing
- Test Strategy
- Test Planning
Software Testing and Quality Assurance - StrategyIntermediateNew
IDE-Assisted Refactoring Bootcamp for a Junior Backend Team
Design a 5-day curriculum centered on 10 katas chosen for refactoring-pattern coverage (e.g., Gilded Rose for replace-conditional-with-polymorphism, Tennis kata for extract-meth…
- Refactoring
- Katas
- Ide Tooling
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - StrategyIntermediateNew
Estimate and Plan a 6-Week MVP for a Local Logistics Startup
Read the product brief and decompose it into 8-12 modules (driver app, dispatcher console, shipper portal, billing, etc.). Estimate each module using 3-point estimation (optimis…
- Estimation
- Scheduling
- Risk Management
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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.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
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
Blockchain and Decentralized Systems Engineering
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