Worked on enhancing recovery orchestration in the vitessio/vitess repository by implementing a primary health pre-check mechanism within VTOrc. This feature improved failover speed and correctness by verifying the primary’s health before initiating failure mitigation, allowing for concurrent recovery of primary and replica nodes while maintaining safety through prioritized primary recovery. The approach ensured that replica recovery would be aborted if the primary’s status changed, preserving cluster consistency. Leveraged Go and SQL to address distributed systems challenges in backend development and database management, focusing on robust orchestration logic that accelerates cluster-wide recovery without compromising data integrity or operational reliability.