May 2026 monthly summary for two repos. Focused on delivering robust, maintainable code and setting the stage for faster future iterations. Key features delivered: - Backend: Asylum Case Update Handling Enhancements in hmcts/ia-home-office-integration-api. Refactored the update flow, extracted complex logic into dedicated methods, improved null-safety, and enhanced applicant selection and case status updates. This reduces runtime risk and simplifies future changes (DIAC-447 series including cognitive-complexity reductions and method-level refactors). - Frontend: Speaker Policy Renaming and Deprecated Policy Removal in hmcts/ia-aip-frontend. Removed deprecated featurePolicy and renamed speaker policy to speaker-selection to align with current standards and improve code clarity. Major bugs fixed: - Resolved potential null-selectedApplicant scenarios and tightened exception handling paths in the asylum case update flow. Incorporated fixes to @Nullable/@NonNullApi usage and related conversion logic, reducing NPE risk and improving error resilience. - Addressed cognitive complexity and logic fragmentation in key update methods; implemented targeted refactors to simplify flow and improve maintainability. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased reliability and robustness of asylum case processing across backend and frontend. Reduced runtime risk from null references and complex conditional logic; improved code readability, testability, and onboarding for new contributors. Performed alignment with current standards across two repos, enabling faster delivery of enhancements. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Java backend refactoring, modularization, null-safety, and robust exception handling. - Frontend policy refactor and standardization (speaker-selection) with repository hygiene (yarn audit). - Cross-repo collaboration and co-authored work (co-authored commits by K Georgiou).

In April 2026, delivered Appellant Contact Details Handling Enhancements in hmcts/ia-case-api, improving data fidelity for appellant contact details (mobileNumber and email) by adding fallback values and ensuring they are written to case data. The work fixes the Appellant support contact details not showing on CYA, and reduces user friction by removing unnecessary clearing of retype fields. This release strengthens end-to-end data integrity for case data and CYA views, with implementation via a focused backend change and collaborators (co-authored-by K Georgiou). Commits include fc9b8b1096be3a8089bbefac27656bfcb7e942e0, with related history of updates and reverts to ensure robust write behavior.