Lukas Brand focused on platform upgrades and build automation across HiveMQ repositories, delivering three features over two months. He upgraded HiveMQ deployments in the hivemq/helm-charts repository, ensuring stable releases through coordinated Helm and Kubernetes configuration changes. In hivemq-community-edition, Lukas managed dependency and license updates using Gradle and Maven, improving security and maintainability by aligning with the latest SDK and third-party libraries. For hivemq-edge, he enhanced CI/CD reliability by refining build configurations, updating the Gradle Enterprise plugin, and improving security scanning with YAML and Java. His work emphasized maintainable, traceable upgrades and robust build management without introducing new bugs.