In April 2026, the FRR-focused engineering effort delivered two targeted reliability enhancements across two FRR forks: stabilization of socket backlog handling in OpenSourceRouting FRR and improved error reporting for XPath resolution in the management path. The primary feature delivered was replacing a fixed accept-queue backlog with SOMAXCONN for the mgmtd socket listen, reducing EAGAIN failures under high fan-in scenarios and aligning with the behavior of other daemons (bgpd, bfdd, pimd). This improved connection reliability for vtysh sessions, test harnesses, and external controllers, enabling higher concurrency with predictable latency. Additionally, an enhancement to the management edit-config path provides clearer feedback by distinguishing unknown schema nodes from key mismatches when XPath resolution fails. This reduces operator guesswork and speeds remediation. Together, these changes improve system reliability, observability, and onboarding for automation controllers, while demonstrating skills in C-level networking, Linux backlog handling, and libyang-based error handling.