During January 2026, Gourika contributed eight end-to-end algorithmic features to the GDG-IGDTUW/DSA-1 repository, focusing on problems involving strings, arrays, trees, graphs, and streaming analytics. She applied C++ and advanced data structures to deliver modular, reusable solutions such as center-expansion for palindromic substrings, max-heap-based k closest elements, and BFS-driven binary tree serialization. Her work emphasized time and space efficiency, leveraging dynamic programming and recursion for tasks like Word Break II and real-time median calculation. No major bugs were reported, reflecting careful attention to code quality and testability, and her solutions support both educational use and scalable performance.