Ruben Ayrapetyan developed a performance-focused feature for the SAP/SapMachine repository, targeting ARM64 platforms. He updated the virtual machine initialization to detect AArch64 Neoverse N3 and N3 V3 cores, enabling default performance flags such as model identifiers, UseSIMDForMemoryOps, and UseCryptoPmullForCRC32. This C++ work leveraged compiler development and embedded systems expertise to optimize throughput for memory- and crypto-intensive workloads, particularly in cloud and edge environments. By defaulting SIMD and cryptographic optimizations for these processors, Ruben addressed the need for improved performance on modern ARM architectures, demonstrating depth in low-level system tuning and performance optimization within a production JVM.