Chiyu Wang addressed a critical stability issue in the NVIDIA/NVFlare repository by fixing TLS corruption in the Job Launcher. To resolve problems caused by gRPC state inheritance during process forking, Chiyu replaced the traditional fork approach with posix_spawn and developed a dedicated ProcessAdapter for managing child processes. This solution, implemented in Python and leveraging advanced process management techniques, improved the reliability and maintainability of distributed job execution workflows. Chiyu’s work demonstrated a strong understanding of Linux process control, TLS and gRPC internals, and unit testing, resulting in reduced flaky runs and more robust production deployments within the project.