The journey in numbers
Every count this record makes about the journey, with the date it was read and the method behind it.
- Status
- stable
- Trust
- human-reviewedHuman: Raza Rizwan ·
- Approved
- Human: Raza Rizwan ·
Every number about the journey lives here, once, with its date. Other pages cite this one rather than restating a figure.
The headline numbers
| Measure | Value | Read on |
|---|---|---|
| Years on GitHub | 6 (account created 19 September 2020) | 2026-08-26 |
| Original repositories | 111: 75 public, 36 private | 2026-08-26 |
| Forks, not counted as own work | 19, all public | 2026-08-26 |
| Public repositories shown on the GitHub profile | 94 (75 originals plus 19 forks) | 2026-08-26 |
| Followers | 62 | 2026-08-26 |
Sources: the GitHub profile1 and the repository list2.
Repositories by year
Original repositories only, by the year they were created.2
| Year | Total | Public | Private | Private share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 21% |
| 2023 | 23 | 17 | 6 | 26% |
| 2024 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 55% |
| 2025 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 56% |
| 2026, to 26 August | 20 | 9 | 11 | 55% |
| Total | 111 | 75 | 36 | 32% |
The private share is the shape of the journey in one column: nothing private while learning, then more than half of every year's work private from 2024 on, which is what client work looks like from the outside.
How the counts are made
- The repository list is the GitHub search
user:rrizwan98, which returns repositories owned by the account and excludes forks unless asked; forks were counted with a second search (fork:only). - A repository is placed in the year it was created, not the year it was last pushed.
- Private repositories are counted and never named.
- Repositories that belong to a company's own GitHub organisation are not owned by this account and are not counted.
What is deliberately not counted
Commits, lines of code, stars and contribution streaks. They are easy to read off GitHub and easy to game, and none of them says whether a system was delivered and used.
Footnotes
Sources
2026: AI employees and MCP connectors
The Forward Deployed Engineer work, where AI systems hold real jobs inside a business and MCP connectors put a company's process inside the AI tools its team already uses.
Repositories by year
The complete list of public repositories owned by rrizwan98, year by year, with private repositories counted but not named.