Prarit Bhargava
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrarit Bhargava is a Distinguished Engineer with 25 years of software engineering experience, based in Somerville, Massachusetts, and a long tenure at Red Hat dating back to 2006. He blends senior technical leadership in platform and architecture with hands-on systems and DevOps work, moving between strategic roles and pragmatic engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved GitLab CLI tooling (zaquestion/lab) by adding features like file uploads for merge-request notes, a --source option, and key GitLab integration fixes. That combination of CLI-level attention to developer ergonomics and large-scale platform reliability is a through-line in his work. Educated at the University of Calgary, he brings deep institutional knowledge of distributed development workflows and configuration management to cloud-native toolchains.
25 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of Calgary
Github Skills (18)
gitlab-api10
commandline-interface10
command-line-interface10
c1110
linux-kernel10
power-management10
x8610
c1710
go10
commandline10
command-line10
cli10
devops9
pci9
acpi9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zaquestion/lab
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Lab wraps Git or Hub, making it simple to clone, fork, and interact with repositories on GitLab
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:173 reviews, 199 commits, 267 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Prarit primarily contributed to the "lab" project by addressing issues related to GitLab integration and command-line utility functionality. Their commits focused on fixing bugs in command execution, such as evaluating environment variables and resolving issues with merge request display. The user also implemented features like adding a "file" option to the "mr note" command for file uploads, as well as adding support for managing the GitLab-related configuration file. Furthermore, this user implemented the --source option to the mr create command.
golanggitlab-cirepositoriesgitlab-apigitlab-cli
prarit/lab
Aug 2020 - Mar 2025
Lab wraps Git or Hub, making it simple to clone, fork, and interact with repositories on GitLab
Contributions:4 PRs, 838 pushes, 223 branches in 4 years 7 months
repositorieswrapsgitlabinteractlab
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