Maxim developed robust backend features for the viamrobotics/goutils and viamrobotics/rdk repositories, focusing on maintainable data handling and deployment reliability. In goutils, Maxim introduced a custom Duration type in Go, enabling seamless JSON marshalling and unmarshalling where native support was lacking, and ensured correctness through comprehensive fuzz testing. For rdk, Maxim centralized first-run execution logic, added configurable timeouts, and optimized module reconfiguration to improve operational efficiency. The work included refactoring package cleanup using errors.Join and enhancing error handling and documentation. Maxim’s contributions leveraged Go, configuration management, and testing to reduce maintenance overhead and improve system observability and reliability.