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My 369 Merged Pull Requests On GitHub, Every Single One Linked And Verified

As of August 26, 2026, GitHub reports that 398 merged pull requests carry my name on the author line. Twenty nine of those live inside repositories that I own myself, so I removed them from this count on purpose. What remains is the number that actually matters to me: 369 pull requests merged into other people's repositories , across 33 external projects , maintained by strangers who had zero…

On August 26, 2026, GitHub revealed that 369 of 398 pull requests I authored were merged into external repositories. Thirty nine of these merges belonged to projects I owned, so I excluded them from the count. The remaining 369 merges showcase real contributions to 33 different open source projects maintained by strangers. I verified these numbers using the GitHub search API directly, ensuring the data comes from the source itself.

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