During their recent work, Gardener focused on enhancing dependency management and build reliability across two Microsoft repositories. For microsoft/app-store-badge, Gardener implemented a targeted .npmrc configuration to integrate Azure Artifacts as the npm registry, enabling secure access to private packages and improving CI authentication flows. In the microsoft/CsWinRT repository, Gardener introduced centralized NuGet package management, unifying package versions to reduce conflicts and streamline upgrades. These contributions leveraged skills in configuration, NuGet, and npm, resulting in more reproducible builds and laying the groundwork for scalable dependency governance. The work demonstrated depth in repository configuration and practical dependency management solutions.