During January 2025, contributed two targeted enhancements to the elastic/eui and firebase/firebase-tools repositories. In elastic/eui, developed a UI component update that introduced descriptive tag badges to color palette picker titles, refining both the rendering logic and documentation to support clearer UI/UX distinctions such as 'fixed' or 'gradient' palettes. For firebase/firebase-tools, implemented schema validation for dataconnect-yaml.json by updating the $schema and resolving a parsing issue, thereby improving configuration reliability. These features were delivered using JavaScript, TypeScript, and JSON, with a focus on component development, configuration management, and thorough documentation to streamline onboarding and reduce downstream configuration errors.