Maulik Shah enhanced power management in the geerlingguy/linux repository by refining the Power Domain Governor to support latency-aware idle state selection. He focused on ensuring that deeper idle states are only entered when all child CPUs’ latency requirements are satisfied, preventing violations of latency constraints. This work involved kernel development and embedded systems expertise, with code written in C and validated through hardware testing on the SM8750 platform. By increasing test coverage and observability of governor decisions, Maulik improved the reliability of power management on arm64 devices, demonstrating a deep understanding of device drivers and low-level system optimization.