Blackbucks
Hackathon & Skill Development Platform for 50,000+ Students
Executive Summary
Blackbucks is a large-scale education platform built for college students, focused on all-round skill development through hackathons, labs, courses, coding practice, AI-based interview preparation, and multi-format assessments.
CyberMind Works partnered to build an end-to-end platform handling high concurrency across 50+ colleges and 50,000+ students while supporting complex evaluation workflows, proctoring, dashboards, and admin reporting.
The platform combines hackathons and competitions with multi-format assessments (MCQ, coding challenges, audio/video questions), browser-based virtual labs with Docker-isolated environments, LangChain + Azure AI powered interview preparation, personalized analytics dashboards, and robust proctoring features including tab tracking, copy-paste blocking, and webcam snapshots for academic integrity.
Built on a modern cloud-native architecture with AWS EKS, NestJS, PostgreSQL, and separate Next.js frontends for students and admins, the platform delivers a comprehensive learning ecosystem that has successfully hosted 1,000+ hackathons and 30,000+ assessment questions.
Platform Features Delivered
A comprehensive suite of features enabling skill development, assessment, and career readiness for college students across 50+ institutions.
Hackathons & Competitive Assessments
Students can join hackathons, solve challenges, track leaderboards, and improve their skills through structured competitions.
Multi-Format Test Engine
Supports MCQ Exams, Coding Challenges (with test case grading), and Audio/Video Answer Questions for communication + interview simulation.
Coding Evaluation Engine
Multi-language support with execution against test cases, scoring based on pass/fail + performance, error handling, and time/memory capture.
Personalized Student Dashboard
Strengths & weaknesses summary, areas to improve, progress trend tracking, leaderboards, and employability score (job-readiness).
Roadmaps & Learning Plans
Structured learning roadmaps aligned to goals like placement readiness, domain mastery, and skill improvement milestones.
Advanced Admin Reports
Create/manage tests, hackathons, and question banks. View student reports, filter by skill + academic performance, recommend job opportunities.
Proctoring & Integrity Controls
Tab switching tracking/restrictions, copy-paste blocking, and webcam snapshots captured for later review to ensure credibility.
Technical Architecture
A modern, scalable cloud-native architecture combining multiple technologies for performance, security, and extensibility. Built on AWS EKS with separate frontend deployments for students and admins.
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Technical Stack
Enterprise-grade technology choices enabling scalability, performance, and maintainability across all platform modules.
Frontend (Student Platform)
Admin Panel
Backend Platform
Database Layer
Virtual Workspaces (Labs)
Coding Evaluation Engine
AI Services Layer
Business Value & Results
This platform enabled Blackbucks to operate at multi-college scale while delivering an engaging learning ecosystem for students.
- •Onboarded across 50+ colleges with seamless multi-tenant support
- •50,000+ students engaged with assessments, hackathons, and learning journeys
- •Robust evaluation engine for coding + MCQ + audio/video assessments
- •Roadmap-driven learning experience that improves course completion rates
- •Admin intelligence layer to identify top talent and recommend opportunities
Conclusion
CyberMind Works successfully delivered a high-scale, multi-module education platform for Blackbucks that combines hackathons and competitions, comprehensive assessments and evaluation, hands-on virtual labs, AI-powered interview learning experiences, and advanced analytics and reporting for admins.
This platform is engineered to support large student traffic across 50+ colleges and 50,000+ students, maintain academic integrity through robust proctoring features, and provide measurable skill development outcomes through personalized dashboards and learning roadmaps.
The solution demonstrates our expertise in building scalable EdTech platforms with complex evaluation engines, real-time collaboration features, and enterprise-grade infrastructure capable of handling high-concurrency workloads while delivering an engaging learning experience.
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