During December 2024, Vlad Borys developed conditional deployment gating for test virtual machines in the Azure/GPT-RAG repository, focusing on deployment safety and resource efficiency within the infrastructure layer. He refined Bicep modules to ensure that test VMs are deployed only when network isolation is enabled and a VM is present, reducing unnecessary resource creation and improving the determinism of CI/CD pipelines. By addressing a missing condition in the Bicep configuration, Vlad enhanced the reliability of test environments. His work leveraged Azure, Bicep, and Infrastructure as Code principles, demonstrating thoughtful attention to deployment logic and cost containment in cloud environments.