Pablo's GSoC at Git Blog

Pre GSoC

Sat, 02 May 2026 10:33:00 +0200

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

Sat, 02 May 2026 09:42:53 +0200

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 Karthik 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.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is my GSoC 2026 blog where I post about my journey working on Git as part of Google Summer of Code.

You can read my full GSoC proposal here.

I’ll be posting weekly updates about my progress, learnings and challenges throughout the coding period.

If you want to know more about me and how I got here, check out my Introduction and Pre GSoC posts.

You can find me on GitHub, LinkedIn or reach me at pabloosabaterr@gmail.com.