Worked on enhancing authentication interoperability for the openstack-k8s-operators/data-plane-adoption repository by implementing OpenID Connect compatibility improvements. Focused on updating the OIDC response type and refining user info handling to better align with a variety of identity providers, these changes strengthened the security posture of OpenStack Kubernetes deployments. Leveraged configuration management and DevOps practices, primarily using YAML, to update deployment and configuration files supporting the new OIDC flow. No major bugs were addressed during this period, as the work concentrated on feature development to advance identity provider integration and ensure smoother, standards-based authentication for cloud-native infrastructure environments.