During July 2025, Pougan focused on stabilizing canary deployments and improving production readiness for the dave-inc/charts repository. He addressed issues in Kubernetes Helm charts by refining deployment labeling and service routing, ensuring canary instances were correctly identified and routed across clusters. Using YAML and Helm, he introduced a canary value flag and managed version progression from beta to final releases, which enabled safer incremental rollouts and reduced misrouting risks. His work culminated in promoting the notification service to production-ready status, demonstrating proficiency in chart management, version control, and deployment best practices within a short but impactful engagement.