During November 2024, David H. focused on improving the reliability of test infrastructure in the confidential-containers/cloud-api-adaptor repository. He addressed persistent flakiness in SecureComms tests by ensuring test servers started reliably and ports were available before client connections, effectively eliminating race conditions. David consolidated network namespace test utilities, making them reusable and enhancing both stability and maintainability across the codebase. His work, primarily using Go and leveraging skills in network programming and system administration, resulted in more deterministic and robust CI test runs. This targeted engineering reduced release risk and provided a foundation for more maintainable and reusable test components.