Worked on performance optimization for the category-labs/monad-bft repository by updating the OpenTelemetry metrics configuration. Focused on improving monitoring efficiency, the developer disabled the OTLP exporter for metrics and reduced metric expiration to one minute, which enhanced metric throughput and resource management while maintaining low latency. The approach involved careful configuration management using YAML and DevOps practices to align with production observability requirements. All changes were tracked through Git for traceability. This work resulted in lower monitoring overhead, faster feedback on performance issues, and improved scalability of the metrics pipeline, demonstrating expertise in monitoring, configuration management, and performance tuning.