Claire McGinty expanded the external usability and testability of the GoogleCloudDataproc/hadoop-connectors repository by exposing core parsing methods for read and write channel options as public APIs within the GoogleHadoopFileSystemConfiguration class. Using Java and configuration management skills, Claire updated and extended unit tests to validate these new public methods, ensuring reliable integration for downstream consumers. This work addressed integration friction by allowing external applications to directly configure and test channel options, reducing the need for internal workarounds. The changes improved maintainability and laid a foundation for broader adoption of the connectors in production environments, reflecting thoughtful engineering depth and focus.