Afzal Patel focused on build system enhancements for ROCm/hipSPARSELt and ROCm/rocm-systems, delivering three features over two months. He improved marker functionality in hipSPARSELt by refining CMake include paths for hipSPARSE and rocTracer, ensuring reliable header discovery and integration. In ROCm/rocm-systems, Afzal enabled DRM support by integrating DRM headers into the rocm_smi build and refactored ROCm SMI integration in rocWMMA to use CMake’s find_package, increasing build robustness and maintainability. His work, primarily in C++ and CMake, addressed integration friction and laid a foundation for future tracing and system programming features across these repositories.