diff --git a/apps/misc/urls.py b/apps/misc/urls.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02bd99f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/misc/urls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+from django.urls import path
+
+from .views import recent_commits
+
+app_name = "misc"
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    path("github/<str:username>/commits/", recent_commits, name="github-recent-commits"),
+]
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diff --git a/apps/misc/views.py b/apps/misc/views.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d3e1645
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/misc/views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import os
+
+from django.http import JsonResponse
+from django.views.decorators.http import require_GET
+
+try:
+    # octokitpy client
+    from octokit import Octokit
+except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
+    Octokit = None  # type: ignore
+
+
+@require_GET
+def recent_commits(request, username: str):
+    """
+    Return metadata for a user's most recent commits (up to 100) across GitHub.
+    Optional query params:
+      - per_page: number of commits to return (default 100, max 100)
+    """
+    if Octokit is None:
+        return JsonResponse({"error": "octokitpy is not installed"}, status=500)
+
+    per_page = min(int(request.GET.get("per_page", 100)), 100)
+    token = os.environ.get("GITHUB_TOKEN")
+
+    # Initialize Octokit client (authenticated if token provided to raise rate limits)
+    if token:
+        client = Octokit(type="token", token=token)
+    else:
+        client = Octokit()
+
+    # Use the GitHub Search API for commits
+    # Query: search by author username, sorted by author date desc
+    # Note: Commit Search API historically required a preview accept header; octokitpy handles headers internally.
+    res = client.search.commits(
+        q=f"author:{username}",
+        sort="author-date",
+        order="desc",
+        per_page=per_page,
+    )
+
+    # Return the raw payload so the caller gets "all the metadata"
+    data = res.json  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+    # Keep it simple: forward the result from GitHub. Optionally, we could subset fields here.
+
+    return JsonResponse(data, safe=False)
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diff --git a/conf/urls.py b/conf/urls.py
index b2ddfbf..39b01c6 100644
--- a/conf/urls.py
+++ b/conf/urls.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 urlpatterns = [
     path("", include("apps.users.urls.auth")),
+    path("api/", include("apps.misc.urls")),
     path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
 ]
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ccbc7ff..2a6be35 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ psycopg2-binary = "^2.8.4"
 python = "^3.6"
 redis = "^3.3.11"
 sentry-sdk = "^0.14.1"
+octokitpy = "^0.3.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 Werkzeug = "^0.16.0"