During January 2025, Zayaan Shah focused on improving the reliability of container-runtime integration in the grafana/falco repository. He addressed a configuration management issue by refining how the system resolves CRI socket paths, ensuring that YAML configuration lookups reference container_engines.cri.sockets rather than container_engines.cri.cri. This targeted bug fix, implemented in C++ with a strong emphasis on system programming, reduced the risk of misconfiguration and runtime failures across diverse environments. Zayaan’s work demonstrated careful attention to YAML parsing and CRI socket discovery, resulting in more robust container runtime compatibility and contributing to the overall stability of the project’s integration layer.