March 2025: Focused on security-critical crypto improvements and compliance. Delivered FIPS-aware crypto path separation in elastic-agent and aligned PBKDF2 validation with FIPS SP 800-132 in fleet-server, supported by targeted unit tests and build-tag separation.

February 2025 monthly summary: Focused on stabilizing CI/CD and advancing observability data quality. Key actions included removing unused PPC image builds to streamline CI in the golang-crossbuild repo and upgrading OpenTelemetry semantic conventions to v1.27.0 in apm-data, with corresponding updates to attribute mappings, tests, and metadata translation to ensure accurate data processing. Overall impact: reduced CI complexity and failures, improved data fidelity and ecosystem compatibility, and stronger maintainability across repos. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Go/Golang CI/CD optimization, OpenTelemetry upgrades and integration, data modeling and testing, cross-repo coordination, and emphasis on business-value outcomes like reliability and observability fidelity.