Over a two-month period, this developer contributed to the openedx/course-discovery and edx/public-dockerfiles repositories, focusing on backend and frontend enhancements. They improved Studio API data accuracy by refining date handling for external course runs and expanded the course deadline reminder system to support additional intervals and instructor-paced courses, leveraging Python, Django, and data loading techniques. On the frontend, they added credit-bearing course metadata to the Publisher UI using React, Redux Form, and CSS, enabling conditional rendering of new fields. Additionally, they upgraded the base Docker image to Ubuntu Jammy, enhancing security and maintainability for the course-discovery service.