Ahmed Gouda contributed to the OWASP/Nest repository by delivering three backend features focused on API security, reliability, and data access performance. He migrated the REST API fuzz testing framework to Schemathesis, integrating REST fuzz tests and middleware for handling null characters to enhance robustness. Ahmed refined CI/CD workflows and optimized Docker configurations, improving deployment safety and efficiency. His work included database management improvements and adjustments to API query parameters, streamlining operations and testing. Additionally, he refactored strawberry_django decorators in GraphQL to optimize related-field fetching for User data retrieval, leveraging Python and YAML to improve backend performance and maintainability.