During January 2025, Sundaram updated governance processes in the Netflix/mantis repository by delivering a CODEOWNERS Ownership Update. This change involved removing himself from the CODEOWNERS file to reflect new ownership responsibilities, clarifying accountability and streamlining the code review workflow. Sundaram approached the update with a focus on collaboration and project management, ensuring that documentation and commit hygiene were maintained throughout the process. Working primarily with plaintext, he documented the single-commit change to support future maintainability. The update reduced maintenance risk and accelerated triage and pull request processing, though the scope was limited to a single feature without bug fixes.