Worked on the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector repository to address a critical bug in the confighttp component’s Zstd decoder pooling mechanism. Focused on concurrency safety in Go, the solution involved implementing a safe Close pattern for the decoder to prevent data corruption when multiple readers accessed pooled resources. Added a targeted regression test to ensure the fix remained robust under concurrent scenarios, using Go’s testing framework to validate reliability. This work improved the stability of high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines by reducing the risk of data loss, and demonstrated careful attention to resource management, compression handling, and HTTP protocol integration within the codebase.