Alessandro Solimando enhanced the OpenLineage/OpenLineage repository by developing a feature that improves path extraction for ArrayBuffer data within ParallelCollectionRDDs. Using Scala and Spark, he extended the RddPathUtils extraction logic to reliably handle ArrayBuffer instances, enabling more accurate lineage data capture for Spark workloads. His approach included implementing new logic to derive file paths from ArrayBuffer data and adding targeted test coverage to validate this functionality. This work addressed the challenge of manual data wrangling in downstream analytics by tightening lineage accuracy. Over the month, Alessandro focused on data engineering tasks, delivering depth in Spark lineage extraction without addressing bug fixes.