Afzal Patel focused on build system enhancements across ROCm/hipSPARSELt, ROCm/rocm-systems, and ROCm/rocWMMA, leveraging C++ and CMake to improve integration and maintainability. He enabled marker functionality in hipSPARSELt by correcting CMake include paths for hipSPARSE and rocTracer, reducing build friction and supporting future tracing features. In rocm-systems, he integrated DRM support by adding necessary include directories, allowing rocm_smi to access DRM headers. For rocWMMA, he refactored the build process to use CMake’s find_package for rocm_smi and standardized library naming. His work demonstrated depth in system programming and build system configuration.