Second year CS student at University of Murcia, Spain. This blog documents my Google Summer of Code 2026 journey working on Git, mentored by Karthic who works at Gitlab and Chandra.
Pre GSoC
This post might be longer than others because it summarizes ~2 months of thoughts and the process of applying to GSoC. Around 2 months before the GSoC opening for proposals submissions a friend of mine Paco told me about GSoC and encouraged me to apply. I’ve never heard about it before, but it sounded really interesting. I started looking for organizations and projects where I could fit, I thought about Llvm due to my interest in compilers sounded like a good fit, but I haven’t got into llvm as much as I’d like to and the projects weren’t something I felt a deep interest in. ...
Introduction
Hi! My name is Pablo, this is my first time blogging, so… don’t expect amazing writing skills but I’ll do my best to try to share my experience through my journey at GSoC Git 2026 mentored by Karthic who works at Gitlab and Chandra. I’m 19 years old and a second year Computer Science student at the University of Murcia, Spain. I love programming and I’m really interested about compilers and how things work under the hood. I mostly program in C but I also have experience with Java and typescript. ...