Lucas Astrom developed benchmarking capabilities for the storage-provider pallet in the eigerco/polka-storage repository, focusing on enabling performance assessment and CI-driven validation. He designed and implemented a new benchmark module in Rust, including tests for registering storage providers and pre-committing sectors, along with supporting helper utilities. By integrating these benchmarks into the CI/CD pipeline using YAML, Lucas automated regular performance validation, providing faster feedback loops for the team. His work established a foundation for data-driven optimization and scalable storage operations, demonstrating depth in benchmarking, CI/CD automation, and Substrate development while addressing reliability and maintainability in decentralized storage systems.