In June 2025, Banty Prasad enhanced recovery orchestration in the vitessio/vitess repository by introducing a primary health pre-check to the VTOrc failover process. This backend feature, developed using Go and SQL, improved cluster recovery speed and correctness by verifying the primary’s health before initiating failure mitigation on replicas. The approach enabled concurrent recovery of primaries and replicas, with logic to prioritize primary recovery and abort replica recovery if the primary’s status changed, ensuring data consistency. Banty’s work demonstrated a strong grasp of distributed systems and database management, delivering a focused, well-integrated solution to a complex orchestration challenge.