Worked on enhancing the snowflakedb/libsnowflakeclient repository by addressing a critical permission-denied error encountered during client configuration loading. Using C and C++, applied robust error handling and logging improvements to centralize safer configuration parsing and ensure graceful handling of parsing failures through try-catch mechanisms. Refined the logging system to dynamically adjust verbosity based on the DEBUG flag and expanded logger levels to improve diagnosability. These changes increased startup resilience, reduced operational overhead, and improved maintainability across environments. The work demonstrated a strong focus on system configuration, unit testing, and observability, resulting in more reliable and transparent application startup processes.