Worked on the truera/trulens repository to address a critical reliability issue in span ingestion for the Snowflake OpenTelemetry integration. Focused on backend development and data engineering, the solution involved refining the Snowflake connector to explicitly include protocol, port, and host, and updating the OTEL exporter to ensure only valid SnowflakeConnector instances were used. Implemented validation and filtering logic in Python to prevent malformed spans, specifically those with missing app_name values, from entering analytics pipelines. This targeted bug fix improved data quality and telemetry stability, reducing the risk of malformed data affecting downstream analytics and enhancing overall pipeline robustness.