Sudhir Pola developed and enhanced build and deployment workflows across open-edge-platform repositories, focusing on automation and reliability. In app-orch-catalog, he expanded the Makefile to generate a helm-to-dp binary, streamlining the build pipeline for new deployment tools. He also implemented comprehensive component tests and updated CI workflows to validate bootstrapping of registries, applications, and deployment packages, leveraging Go and YAML for robust test coverage. In edge-ai-libraries, Sudhir introduced a VLLM deployment profile with persistent storage for chatqna, supporting advanced AI workloads on Kubernetes. His work demonstrated depth in CI/CD, build automation, and component testing, improving release confidence.