During March 2025, contributed to the facebook/react-native repository by addressing a memory leak in the Android layout animation subsystem. Focused on improving memory management, the work involved converting strong references to weak references for animation views and implementing a cleanup mechanism within the LayoutAnimationController to remove invalid animations. This approach prevented unbounded growth of the animation handler list and avoided memory pinning of View objects, directly resolving a leak associated with lossy onAnimationEnd callbacks. Utilizing Java and Kotlin, the changes enhanced the stability and efficiency of animation-heavy Android UIs while maintaining existing API behavior and ensuring robust layout animation performance.