During January 2026, Sam worked on stabilizing the build process for the bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime repository, focusing on cross-platform reliability. He addressed a misconfiguration in the Windows MSVC compiler parameters, resolving a bug that previously caused instability in Windows builds. Using CMake and his expertise in build configuration, Sam refactored the build scripts to centralize GCC, C, and CXX flags, reducing variability across different targets. This approach improved maintainability and made future changes more straightforward. His work enhanced onboarding for new contributors by documenting a unified flag management process, demonstrating depth in cross-platform development and build system engineering.