Prarit Bhargava
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolPrarit Bhargava is a Distinguished Engineer with 26 years of experience in systems engineering and developer tooling, currently based in Somerville, MA and leading technical efforts at Red Hat. He brings deep expertise in back-end development and DevOps, evidenced by hands-on contributions to the popular zaquestion/lab project where he fixed GitLab integration bugs and added practical CLI features like file uploads and source options for merge requests. Prarit’s career spans long tenures at Red Hat and earlier work at Stratus Technologies, reflecting a steady progression from software engineer to senior technical leadership. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he blends low-level command-line fluency with large-scale platform thinking to improve developer workflows and operational reliability.
26 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of Calgary
Github Skills (16)
c1710
cli10
command-line-interface10
go10
c1110
linux-kernel10
gitlab-api10
power-management10
command-line10
x8610
acpi9
devops9
pci9
git8
code-review8
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
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.