During October 2025, Sania Patel developed a dynamic streaming engine harness switching feature for the apache/beam repository. She engineered a runtime mechanism in Java that selects between FanOutStreamingEngineWorkerHarness and SingleSourceWorkerHarness based on job connectivity type, using configuration-driven logic to adapt to changing network conditions. This approach eliminated the need for redeployment when network paths changed, enhancing the resilience and throughput stability of distributed streaming systems. Leveraging her expertise in Beam, Dataflow, and gRPC, Sania’s work enabled seamless adaptation between direct-path and cloud-path workflows, addressing operational challenges and improving the reliability of streaming workloads in production environments.