During October 2025, Akasala focused on stabilizing the CI and testing pipeline for the blackduck-inc/black-duck-security-scan repository. By addressing a key bug, Akasala implemented deterministic dependency management within the CI/CD workflow using YAML, ensuring that automated tests and sanity checks ran against a fixed set of libraries. This approach prevented unexpected library upgrades during continuous integration, reducing test flakiness and improving build reproducibility. Leveraging DevOps practices, Akasala’s work enhanced the reliability of security scanning results and accelerated release readiness. The depth of the solution addressed both immediate CI failures and long-term maintainability by controlling external dependency drift.