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Tobias Lütke

@tobi

  • Shopify
  • Ottawa, Canada
  • 42K
    Total stars
  • 6,072
    Followers
  • 66
    Public repos
  • 4,282
    Contributions

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  • Contributions: 4,282. Past 12 months.
  • Followers: 6,072. People who follow you.
  • Total stars: 41,687. Across all repos.
  • Following: 57. People you follow.
  • Public repos: 66. Owned, non-fork.

A living snapshot

Every leaf is a headline number from Tobias Lütke’s public GitHub. The canopy fills out as the work grows - sway and all.

  • 4,282 Contributions Past 12 months
  • 6,072 Followers People who follow you
  • 42K Total stars Across all repos
  • 57 Following People you follow
  • 66 Public repos Owned, non-fork

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What your GitHub says

Based on public GitHub activity · how this is calculated

  • C is the largest language share across analyzed repositories, at 41%.

    High confidence

  • Public visibility is concentrated: the top 3 analyzed repositories account for 88% of total stars, led by qmd.

    Medium confidence

  • Public GitHub activity is implementation-heavy: commits account for 94% of tracked contribution activity.

    Medium confidence

  • 10 of 40 analyzed repositories were pushed to in the last 6 months.

    Medium confidence

  • This analysis covers 40 of 66 public repositories (61%); broader totals may differ.

    High confidence

Profile health

Signals from analyzed public data

Activity 100

Strong

  • 4,282 contributions in the trailing year
  • 3-day current streak
Portfolio 33

Needs work

  • 10 of 40 analyzed repositories are actively maintained
  • 41,687 stars across analyzed repositories
Discoverability 37

Needs work

  • 5 of 40 analyzed repositories have no description
  • 37 of 40 have no topic tags
Maintenance 25

Needs work

  • 10 of 40 analyzed repositories were pushed to in the last 6 months
  • 19 show no public activity in over a year
Collaboration 10

Needs work

  • 249 pull requests and 13 code reviews in the trailing year
  • 488 repositories starred

Recruiter snapshot

A skim of public evidence, not a hiring judgement

Technical focus
C / TypeScript / Rust / Lua

Largest language shares across analyzed repositories

Project depth
10 of 40

Analyzed repositories rated established or maintained

Collaboration
249 PRs / 13 reviews

Public pull requests and code reviews in the trailing year

Community signals
41,687 stars / 3,698 forks

Summed across analyzed repositories

Recent activity
12 of last 12 months

Calendar months with at least one tracked contribution

Strongest signals

  • 4,282 contributions in the trailing year

4,282
Contributions
Past 12 months
3
Current streak
Sep 21, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026
35
Longest streak
Jul 23, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026
Sep Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Mon Wed Fri
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Language distribution for tobi C 40.7%, TypeScript 12.8%, Rust 10.3%, Lua 10.1%, C++ 9.8%, JavaScript 5.5%, Other 10.8%
  • C 40.7%
  • TypeScript 12.8%
  • Rust 10.3%
  • Lua 10.1%
  • C++ 9.8%
  • JavaScript 5.5%
  • Other 10.8%

Frontend Backend Mobile DevOps Data AI Security Embedded Game Dev
  • DevOps 100
  • Frontend 93
  • Backend 73
  • Data 27
  • Embedded 20
  • Mobile 13
  • AI 0
  • Security 0
  • Game Dev 0

Longest streak
35d
Jul 2026
Favourite coding day
Tuesday
1,038 contributions
Most active year
2026
3,858 contributions
Signature language
C
41% of tracked code
Flagship repository
qmd
29,991 stars
On GitHub since
2008
18 years and counting

Tobias Lütke maintains a public GitHub presence built primarily around C, which accounts for roughly 41% of their committed code, alongside TypeScript and Rust. The profile lists 66 public repositories that have attracted 41,687 stars, led by qmd at 29,991. Over the past year they recorded 4,282 contributions, including a longest run of 35 consecutive active days. Tobias Lütke has been on GitHub since 2008 and is followed by 6,072 developers.

This overview is generated from Tobias Lütke’s public GitHub activity at the time of the last refresh. Figures cover public repositories and the trailing twelve months of contributions.

  1. 01

    Add a description to walgit

    Medium impact

    walgit is one of your more visible repositories but has no description.

    walgit →
  2. 02

    Add topics to qmd

    Low impact

    qmd has no topic tags, making its technology harder to discover.

    qmd →
  3. 03

    Add topics to try

    Low impact

    try has no topic tags, making its technology harder to discover.

    try →
  4. 04

    Add topics to delayed_job

    Low impact

    delayed_job has no topic tags, making its technology harder to discover.

    delayed_job →
  5. 05

    Add topics to AudioPriorityBar

    Low impact

    AudioPriorityBar has no topic tags, making its technology harder to discover.

    AudioPriorityBar →

How these are calculated: see the methodology page .

mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local

TypeScript 29,991 ★ 1,868 forks 90 issues today

fresh directories for every vibe

Shell 4,019 ★ 159 forks 22 issues yesterday

No description provided.

Rust 2,555 ★ 155 forks 7 issues today

A native macOS menu bar app for managing audio device priorities

Swift 831 ★ 50 forks 9 issues yesterday

Web interface for the grep and tail -f unix tools. Useful for real-time log analysis. Remotely related to splunk

Ruby 803 ★ 63 forks 5 issues yesterday

download your kindle highlights and email random ones to your inbox

Ruby 207 ★ 16 forks 2 issues 4mo ago

Image server / proxy that can resize images on demand based on common file prefixes ( such as _small, _medium ) and apply other rmagick effects. Supposed to be used between a Squid/Varnish and S3

Ruby 182 ★ 8 forks 1 issues 4mo ago

HTML Editor for the liquid language (syntax highlighting, basic error checking etc)

JavaScript 127 ★ 16 forks 3 issues 1mo ago

Most popular
qmd

29,991 stars

Most recently active
qmd

Last pushed 14d ago

Longest maintained
dotfiles

Active for 3.3y

Most discoverable
reve

100% of discoverability signals present

  • qmd 29,991 ★

    mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local

  • try 4,019 ★

    fresh directories for every vibe

  • walgit 2,555 ★
  • delayed_job 2,177 ★

    Database backed asynchronous priority queue -- Extracted from Shopify

  • A native macOS menu bar app for managing audio device priorities

  • clarity 803 ★

    Web interface for the grep and tail -f unix tools. Useful for real-time log analysis. Remotely related to splunk

All repositories →

Public visibility is concentrated in a small number of projects - these are the strongest candidates to feature on a resume.

Top 1 repository 72% of stars
Top 3 repositories 88% of stars
Top 5 repositories 95% of stars

Leading repository: qmd (29,991 stars, 41,687 total across analyzed repositories)

Technology breakdown

Derived from repository languages and topics - horizontal bars, never a pie.

Languages

  • C 41%
  • TypeScript 13%
  • Rust 10%
  • Lua 10%
  • C++ 10%
  • JavaScript 5%

README, contributing-guide and GitHub Actions badges below are detected by exact filename on each repository’s default branch - they report presence, not quality.

  • qmd Maintained
    Popularity 100
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 100
    README No contributing guide CI: 3 workflows
  • reve Experimental
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 100
    Maintenance 85
    README Contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • omatrack Experimental
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 100
    README Contributing guide CI: 2 workflows
  • Popularity 0
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 100
    README No contributing guide CI: 2 workflows
  • neohack Experimental
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 100
    README Contributing guide CI: 6 workflows
  • pi-herdr-workers Experimental
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 100
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • try Established
    Popularity 13
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 85
    README No contributing guide CI: 2 workflows
  • recorder Maintained
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 65
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • walgit Experimental
    Popularity 9
    Discoverability 25
    Maintenance 100
    README No contributing guide CI: 2 workflows
  • bb-bots-sidebar Experimental
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 25
    Maintenance 100
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • wrap Experimental
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 25
    Maintenance 100
    README No contributing guide CI: 2 workflows
  • ac-tracer Maintained
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 25
    Maintenance 85
    README No contributing guide CI: 2 workflows

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66
Public repos
40 analyzed
42K
Total stars
Across all repos
4,282
Contributions
Past 12 months
249
Pull requests
Opened this year
36
Public gists
Snippets shared
18 y
Account age
Since 2008
70 %
Profile score
Completeness

Repository explorer

Name Language Stars Forks Size Updated

Coding statistics

Largest repository
184.8 MB
omatrack
Smallest repository
14 KB
highlights
Oldest repository
Feb 17, 2008
delayed_job
Newest repository
Sep 7, 2026
bb-bots-sidebar
Most starred
29,991 ★
qmd
Most forked
1,868 forks
qmd
Most watched
104 watchers
qmd
Longest description
196 characters
imagery
Most open issues
90 open
qmd

Contribution patterns

By year

  • 2026
    3,858
  • 2025
    599
  • 2024
    95
  • 2023
    55
  • 2022
    4
  • 2021
    16

By day of week

  • Sun
    689
  • Mon
    599
  • Tue
    1,038
  • Wed
    438
  • Thu
    463
  • Fri
    493
  • Sat
    562

Best coding day: Tue

By month (last 12)

  • Oct
    35
  • Nov
    55
  • Dec
    314
  • Jan
    644
  • Feb
    335
  • Mar
    353
  • Apr
    60
  • May
    564
  • Jun
    192
  • Jul
    634
  • Aug
    671
  • Sep
    405

GitHub journey

  1. February 2008

    Joined GitHub

    Created the @tobi account.

  2. February 2008

    Created first repository

    Published delayed_job, the oldest repository still on the account.

  3. February 2008

    First starred repository

    delayed_job is the earliest-created repository to have earned stars.

  4. January 2010

    Reached 10 repositories

    google_apps_login was the 10th public repository created.

  5. June 2026

    Most productive year: 2026

    3,858 contributions recorded in 2026, more than any other year on record.

  6. September 2026

    Latest repository

    bb-bots-sidebar is the most recently created repository.

Developer evolution

Your GitHub career, year by year.

2008

Started with Ruby.

Ruby
Repos this year
4
Total repos
4
Stars, as of today
2.2k
delayed_job
2009

Went deeper into Ruby.

JavaScript Ruby
Repos this year
5
Total repos
9
Stars, as of today
3.4k
clarity
2010

Went deeper into Ruby.

Ruby
Repos this year
3
Total repos
12
Stars, as of today
3.5k
google_apps_login
2011

Shifted from Ruby to Go.

Go Ruby
Repos this year
2
Total repos
14
Stars, as of today
3.5k
tinny
2012

Went deeper into Go.

Go
Repos this year
2
Total repos
16
Stars, as of today
3.6k
airbrake-go
2013

Shifted from Go to Ruby.

Ruby
Repos this year
1
Total repos
17
Stars, as of today
3.8k
highlights
2019

Shifted from Ruby to JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
18
Stars, as of today
3.8k
fokus
2023

Shifted from JavaScript to Shell.

Shell
Repos this year
1
Total repos
19
Stars, as of today
3.8k
Contributions
55
dotfiles
2024

Shifted from Shell to JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
20
Stars, as of today
3.8k
Contributions
95
snowman-fokus
2025

Shifted from JavaScript to C.

C Lua Ruby Shell
Repos this year
6
Total repos
26
Stars, as of today
39k
Contributions
599
qmd
2026

Shifted from C to Rust.

C C++ Lua Ruby
Repos this year
14
Total repos
40
Stars, as of today
42k
Contributions
3,858
walgit

Built from tobi’s public, non-fork repositories. Star totals reflect current counts, not historical snapshots.

Achievements

8 / 9 unlocked

Explorer
Created repositories in 8 or more languages
Builder
More than 50 public repositories
Open Source Enthusiast
100+ stars received across all repositories
Consistent
A 100-day-or-longer contribution streak
Documentation Hero
5 or more repositories with a detailed description
Popular
500 or more followers
Prolific Committer
1,000 or more commits in the past 12 months
Long Timer
5 or more years on GitHub
Star Collector
Starred 100 or more repositories

Open source activity

41,687
Stars received
488
Repositories starred
3,698
Forks received
10
Issues opened
Past 12 months
249
Pull requests opened
Past 12 months
13
Reviews given
Past 12 months
36
Public gists

Language evolution

The primary languages of repositories created each year.

2008
  • Ruby
2009
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby
2010
  • Ruby
2011
  • Go
  • Ruby
2012
  • Go
2013
  • Ruby
2019
  • JavaScript
2023
  • Shell
2024
  • JavaScript
2025
  • C
  • Lua
  • Ruby
  • Shell
  • Swift
  • TypeScript
2026
  • C
  • C++
  • Lua
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • Swift
  • TypeScript

Repository growth

Repositories created per year, and the running total.

4 repositories created in 2008 5 repositories created in 2009 3 repositories created in 2010 2 repositories created in 2011 2 repositories created in 2012 1 repositories created in 2013 1 repositories created in 2019 1 repositories created in 2023 1 repositories created in 2024 6 repositories created in 2025 14 repositories created in 2026 4 total repositories by end of 2008 9 total repositories by end of 2009 12 total repositories by end of 2010 14 total repositories by end of 2011 16 total repositories by end of 2012 17 total repositories by end of 2013 18 total repositories by end of 2019 19 total repositories by end of 2023 20 total repositories by end of 2024 26 total repositories by end of 2025 40 total repositories by end of 2026 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2019 2023 2024 2025 2026 40 0
Created that year Cumulative total

Language tree

Built automatically from repository languages and topics.

Programming Languages
  • C
  • TypeScript
  • Rust
  • Lua
  • C++
  • JavaScript