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 reason to trust my code. Every single one of those 369 merges is real, dated, and linked in this post. Nothing here is rounded up and nothing is claimed without proof. If you want to skip my writing entirely, open the search query in section two and run it yourself. That is the whole point of this article. You should never have to take a stranger's word about their own stats. Jump To Any Section How I Verified These Numbers | The Complete Scoreboard | 2024 The Year Of Volume | 2025 Fewer Pull Requests Higher Quality | 2026 The Year Production Code Got Merged | What 369 Merges Taught Me | Frequently Asked Questions | Where To Find Me How I Verified These Numbers I did not count these by hand. I queried the GitHub search API directly, which means the numbers come from GitHub itself, not from my memory or my ego. You can reproduce everything in this post with one click: https://github.com/search?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+author%3Aaniruddhaadak80&type=pullrequests Or if you have the GitHub CLI installed: gh api -X GET search/issues -f q = "is:pr is:merged author:aniruddhaadak80" That query currently returns 398 results. I then filtered out every repository under my own account, which left exactly 369 external merges. The math is boring on purpose: 398 minus 29 own repository merges equals 369. One more honest number before we go further. I have submitted 918 pull requests in my lifetime so far. That means fewer than half of everything I ever sent got merged. Rejection is not the exception in open source, it is the price of admission, and anyone who shows you a 100 percent merge rate is