During a two-month period, Michael Baillie enhanced the kiali/kiali and kiali/kiali-operator repositories by focusing on both reliability and extensibility. He resolved a backend configuration issue in Go, ensuring Grafana dashboards in Kiali use the correct internal URL for service discovery, which improved monitoring stability across environments. In TypeScript and YAML, he expanded the Kiali UI to support custom workload types, enabling users to observe non-standard Kubernetes resources through configurable GroupVersionKind entries. His work included updating configuration management and documentation, demonstrating depth in API integration, backend, and frontend development while addressing both immediate bugs and longer-term platform flexibility.