Nathan Dickens developed automated stale-item management workflows for the sassoftware/viya4-iac-azure and sassoftware/viya4-iac-aws repositories, focusing on improving backlog triage and governance. He designed daily GitHub Actions using YAML to identify issues and pull requests inactive for 30 days, with the Azure workflow marking and notifying stakeholders, while the AWS workflow flagged items for review without auto-closing. This approach streamlined backlog management and surfaced neglected items for maintainers. Nathan’s work demonstrated practical application of CI/CD automation and cross-repository workflow design, with clear documentation to support maintainability. The solutions addressed backlog noise and aligned governance across both IaC repositories.