March 2026: Delivered the Pinot Arrow Plugin in the binary distribution, enabling Arrow data format support directly from official Pinot binaries. This reduces integration friction for users adopting Arrow-based analytics and accelerates time-to-value by shipping the plugin with the release artifacts. Key focus areas included packaging automation, release engineering, and plugin integration for the Apache Pinot project (apache/pinot). Major bugs fixed: none reported as critical this month; the cycle prioritized feature delivery and stability of the binary distribution. Overall impact and accomplishments: enhanced data interoperability with Arrow, expanded the ecosystem integrations for Pinot, and improved onboarding for customers leveraging Arrow formats. The work demonstrates end-to-end delivery from code change through release packaging to user-facing binaries. Technologies/skills demonstrated: binary distribution packaging, plugin architecture, release engineering, build automation, and collaboration across the Pinot ecosystem.