During December 2025, Ben Janin focused on backend development for the exoscale/cli repository, addressing a critical bug related to private network association in instance pools. He corrected the request payload construction in Go to ensure private networks were properly linked at creation, resolving configuration issues for new instances. His approach included comprehensive end-to-end validation, launching multiple instance pools to verify networking behavior both with and without the patch. Ben also conducted full regression testing to confirm stability and updated documentation and changelogs to reflect the changes. His work demonstrated depth in API integration, cloud computing, and release process hygiene.