Worked on enhancing deployment flexibility and observability in Kubernetes environments by contributing to prometheus-community/helm-charts and grafana/alloy. Delivered a CRD opt-out feature for the Prometheus Operator Helm chart, introducing enabled flags in values.yaml and implementing conditional CRD installation to reduce unnecessary resource usage. In grafana/alloy, enabled native histogram scraping via ServiceMonitors by default, ensuring proper propagation to ScrapeOptions and updating tests to prevent regressions. These features were developed using Go, Helm, and YAML, focusing on backend development and DevOps practices to streamline configuration, improve monitoring fidelity, and minimize manual intervention for operators managing complex monitoring workloads.