Worked on optimizing RISC-V code generation in the filipnavara/runtime backend, focusing on improving the emitLoadImmediate function. The approach involved conditionally skipping shift and add instructions when the immediate value was zero, which reduced unnecessary instruction emission and improved both code size and runtime performance for zero-immediate cases. This targeted optimization was implemented using C++ and leveraged skills in compiler optimization, low-level programming, and RISC-V assembly. The work addressed a specific inefficiency in the code generation path, resulting in cleaner and more efficient output for the runtime backend, and was delivered as a feature update during the month.