Amandine Dupays developed a backend feature for the padok-team/burrito repository, focusing on Kubernetes pod scheduling. She refactored the API’s tolerations handling by replacing mergeTolerations with overrideTolerations, ensuring that layer-defined tolerations take precedence when keys conflict. This approach improved scheduling control and predictability, directly addressing deployment reliability across different environments. Working primarily in Go and leveraging her backend development expertise, Amandine’s changes reduced ambiguity in scheduling policies and aligned the API with future extensibility needs. The work demonstrated a thoughtful approach to policy management, emphasizing maintainability and troubleshooting ease without introducing unnecessary complexity or risk to existing deployments.