Tariq Tak focused on backend and DevOps engineering across the edx/configuration and edly-io/edx-platform repositories, delivering four features and resolving two bugs over two months. He implemented NPM alias deployment and conditional private dependency installation, improving deployment precision and efficiency using YAML and Shell scripting. In edly-io/edx-platform, Tariq migrated branding dependencies to new package structures and enhanced session management by stabilizing session IDs with a hybrid save approach in Django. He also standardized Python and Node.js dependency management, unblocked CI/CD pipelines, and improved deployment reproducibility. His work demonstrated depth in configuration management, dependency management, and continuous integration workflows.