Worked on enhancing security and reliability in the bindplane-otel-collector repository by addressing configuration handling for OpAMP updates. Focused on preserving environment variable references within manager.yaml files, the developer implemented a read-modify-write update path using Go and YAML, ensuring that sensitive environment variable strings remained intact on disk and were not exposed as plaintext. This approach prevented resolved secret values from being written back into configuration files, maintaining the integrity of environment-based secrets. The work involved backend development and testing, and was completed in close collaboration with another contributor to ensure robust handling and thorough review of the solution.