During a two-month period, Michael Baillie enhanced the kiali/kiali and kiali/kiali-operator repositories by delivering targeted features and stability improvements. He implemented support for custom workload types in the Kiali UI, enabling observability for user-defined resources through configuration and frontend updates using TypeScript and Go. This work extended monitoring capabilities to non-standard workloads and included documentation updates for future extensibility. Additionally, Michael resolved a backend bug affecting Grafana integration by correcting the internal URL lookup logic in Go and YAML, improving dashboard reliability across environments. His contributions demonstrated depth in API integration, configuration management, and Kubernetes-focused development workflows.