Vishal Sharda developed and integrated a stolen CPU cycles metric into the sys_stats data source for the google/perfetto repository, enhancing visibility into host-steal time for virtualization workloads. He updated Protocol Buffers definitions and parsing logic in C++ and Python to capture and report the new steal_ns metric, ensuring compatibility with existing data models and reporting pipelines. This addition improved performance analysis by enabling more accurate detection of CPU contention and supporting better capacity planning. Vishal’s targeted, single-commit delivery maintained code quality and observability, demonstrating depth in system programming, tracing, and unit testing within a complex performance monitoring environment.