Kemal Zebari is a software engineer with 5 years of experience and a CS degree from Cal State San Marcos, focused on systems that bridge software engineering with mature industries like aerospace, finance, defense, and automotive. He contributes to and maintains open-source tooling (notably pipdeptree) and is an active back-end and DevOps contributor to the widely used Gitea project, where he has fixed PR/release edge cases, webhook behavior, and package upload flows. Comfortable working across backend logic and API integrations, Kemal brings practical experience shipping reliable fixes that improve developer workflows. He prefers roles that combine rigorous systems thinking with domain-specific constraints, and often gravitates toward production issues that sit at the intersection of reliability, automation, and cross-team collaboration.
5 years of coding experience
3.65/4.00, 3.65/4.00 at California State University San Marcos
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:101 reviews, 34 PRs, 217 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kemal contributed to the Gitea project by addressing various issues related to pull requests, releases, and the API. They implemented fixes to prevent re-review actions on closed PRs, handle invalid targets during release creation, and correct issue list filtering. Additionally, the user made changes to the webhook system and the PyPI package upload process, demonstrating involvement in multiple areas of the project. The user's work spans both backend logic and API integrations.
🌎 Web app that compares planets in our Solar System to exoplanets
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 4 months
spring-bootreactdjangosolarsolar-system
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