Edward Middleton
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Freelance; Self-employed IT professional
Japan
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Top SchoolEdward Middleton is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 17 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems from startups to robotics, currently at Rapyuta Robotics in Japan. He combines hands-on SRE and backend engineering with a long history as a software entrepreneur and CTO—co-founding ClassDo and leading product, growth, and infrastructure efforts. As a polyglot engineer he actively works in Rust, Ruby on Rails, Haskell and Go, and maintains practical open-source contributions to Rails-based projects like Publify. Beyond professional roles, he has led the Tokyo Linux User Group since 2007, reflecting deep community engagement and a commitment to developer advocacy. He brings a pragmatic focus on modernizing legacy code and dependency management, plus a track record of shipping production systems that span web publishing, education marketplaces, and financial services. Based in Japan, he balances technical leadership with entrepreneurial grit and a penchant for solving real business problems.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng., Micro-Electronic Engineering - Communication Systems, B. Eng., Micro-Electronic Engineering - Communication Systems at Griffith University
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (10)
ruby-rails10
rails10
web-development10
ruby10
dependency-management9
rspec6
integer6
linux6
bash6
regex6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
publify/publify
Jun 2009 - Aug 2009
A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Edward primarily contributed to the Rails-based web publishing platform, focusing on updating dependencies and adapting code to newer versions of the Rails framework and its associated gems. They updated the application to use a specific version of RubyGems and incorporated changes related to cookie behavior, response headers, and deprecated methods. Additionally, the user added and integrated external libraries like `bluecloth` and `datanoise-actionwebservice`, enhancing the platform's functionality.
ruby-on-railspublishingrailshostedblog-engine
tlug/tlug.jp
May 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:139 commits, 137 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
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