Justin contributed deployment enhancements to the percona/percona-helm-charts repository, focusing on streamlining Percona Everest’s deployment process on Kubernetes. He introduced new Helm chart configuration files and workflows, enabling more reproducible and scalable database resource management. His work leveraged DevOps practices, Helm, and YAML to improve operational efficiency, particularly by refining secret formatting and addressing configuration indentation issues for proxysql image pull secrets. Although the scope was limited to one feature over a month, Justin’s changes reduced deployment errors and improved workflow clarity. The engineering effort demonstrated a solid grasp of Kubernetes deployment patterns and Git-based change management within a focused project.