In February 2026, Alejandro Haro Flores focused on stabilizing distributed training deployments in the aws-samples/awsome-distributed-training repository by improving the Docker installation script’s handling of containerd configuration. He addressed a reliability issue by refining a bash sed command to correctly update the containerd root path, ensuring automated and consistent configuration across cluster nodes. Alejandro incorporated a containerd service restart to apply changes without manual intervention, validating the solution in live environments. His work in containerization, DevOps, and scripting reduced startup failures and manual troubleshooting, resulting in a more maintainable deployment process for distributed training workloads using bash and Docker.