Worked on enhancing the grafana/tempo and grafana/helm-charts repositories by delivering two core features focused on deployment flexibility and performance tuning. Developed Go-based improvements to the tempo CLI, introducing an SSL verification toggle for S3 and GCS backends and refining authentication handling with S3User and S3Pass, which streamlined cloud storage integration. In the Helm charts, added new configuration options for the Tempo query frontend, enabling granular control over metrics such as concurrency and target bytes per job. Leveraged skills in Go, Helm, and configuration management to reduce operational friction and support more efficient resource utilization in distributed environments.