Lexi Masters Vela focused on improving the stability and correctness of the GENE parser within the pyro-kinetics/pyrokinetics repository. During October 2025, Lexi addressed a critical parsing bug by ensuring that ip_ccw and bt_ccw values were cast to integers, resolving issues caused by floating-point misinterpretation from numpy’s sign function. This technical approach, implemented in Python and leveraging data parsing and numerical computing skills, eliminated downstream errors and improved the reliability of model parsing for GENE-related workflows. Lexi’s work prioritized maintainability and correctness, resulting in a more robust parser, though no new user-facing features were introduced during this period.