Worked on the liatrio-otel-collector repository to deliver a targeted safety enhancement for the release process, focusing on CI/CD governance and risk reduction. Addressed a critical bug by updating the GitHub Actions workflow, ensuring that release triggers only respond to commits from octo-sts[bot]. This approach, implemented using YAML and leveraging GitHub Actions, improved the reliability and auditability of releases while supporting better collaboration hygiene. The solution emphasized traceability by making release-related changes explicit and reviewable, and included thorough code review and validation to prevent unintended side effects, demonstrating disciplined use of CI/CD tooling and workflow configuration best practices.