Worked on hardening fuzzing tests in the openssl/openssl repository by improving memory allocation failure handling in C. Focused on increasing the robustness of fuzzing outcomes, the developer introduced explicit NULL-return checks for critical allocation functions such as BIO_new, SSL_CTX_new, and EVP_PKEY_new. This approach ensured that fuzzing tests gracefully handled allocation failures, preventing crashes caused by uninitialized pointers and reducing false positives during testing. The work leveraged skills in C programming, fuzzing, and OpenSSL, and contributed to more reliable fuzzing server code, particularly under low-memory conditions, by guarding critical paths against potential allocation errors in the codebase.