Apurushotama worked on stabilizing and modernizing the confluentinc/rest-utils repository, focusing on Jakarta EE and Jetty 12 migration, security hardening, and dependency management. Over two months, they delivered API migration and integration features, refactored authentication and authorization utilities, and improved test reliability using Java and Jakarta EE. Their work included updating WebSocket and HTTP initialization, aligning SNI utilities with new APIs, and cleaning up logging mechanisms. By upgrading dependencies and pinning Jakarta versions, Apurushotama reduced upgrade risk and improved build consistency. The depth of their contributions ensured safer, faster releases and maintained robust regression coverage throughout the transition.