During February 2026, Tom Beadle focused on improving dependency hygiene for the confident-ai/deepeval repository. He removed the unnecessary opentelemetry-otlp-proto-grpc exporter from the project’s dependency list and synchronized the Poetry lockfile to accurately reflect the current set of dependencies. Using his expertise in Python and package management, Tom ensured that the build process became more reliable and maintainable by reducing potential runtime conflicts. His work streamlined future dependency maintenance and contributed to a cleaner development environment. Although the scope was limited to a single feature, the changes demonstrated careful attention to detail in Python dependency and lockfile management.