flagship10–16 weeks~12h mentor timeLive defensebrief by Ashwin Capital
Matching Engine & Exchange Core
Build a deterministic order-matching engine with an event-sourced ledger, replay, and microsecond-scale latency targets.
rustevent-sourcingkafka
The brief
Build a deterministic order-matching engine with an event-sourced ledger, replay, and microsecond-scale latency targets. The brief is deliberately incomplete — you make and justify the tradeoffs.
Deliberately ambiguous — you make and justify the tradeoffs. Your work is checked against a held-out evaluation you can't see in advance.
Milestones & mentor checkpoints
1Order book & matchingweek 2mentor review
2Event-sourced ledgerweek 5mentor review
3Latency engineeringweek 9mentor review
4Resilience & defense prepweek 13mentor review
How you're graded
Systems design
30% weight
Correctness
25% weight
Operational readiness
25% weight
Defense
20% weight