Jon Middleton
Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Trustpilot
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Middleton is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager with 25+ years in IT and a decade in leadership roles, currently leading SRE efforts at Trustpilot from Edinburgh. He builds and mentors cross-site teams, drives developer experience improvements, and has repeatedly moved internal tooling and platform projects from concept to production. Hands-on with automation and Python, he contributes to the StackStorm ecosystem—authoring alerting integrations and improving documentation—reflecting a blend of backend development and technical writing. His background spans network and security management through to platform architecture, giving him a rare end-to-end operational perspective. Known for kicking the bash habit, he favors maintainable automation and pragmatic tooling choices that scale.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc General Science, Bsc General Science at The University of EdinburghGeorge Watsons College
English
Stackoverflow
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18answers
5questions
google-app-engine
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Github Skills (22)
apim10
json10
storm10
python10
sphinx10
api10
http-request10
rest-api10
sphinxsearch10
documentation10
github-ci9
google-app-engine9
githubaction-workflow9
yaml8
nhibernate6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2contrib
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
MOVED! See StackStorm Exchange
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:152 commits, 24 PRs, 95 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to developing an Alertlogic pack, demonstrating backend development skills. Their work included creating actions using Python, such as getting scan results, listing scans and scan executions, and retrieving the latest scan ID. The code utilizes the Requests library for API interactions and interacts with a REST API. The user also added license headers to the code.
nodejsexchangestackstorm
StackStorm/st2docs
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
StackStorm Documentation.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the documentation of the StackStorm project. Their work included updating the Mistral YAQL documentation with details on accessing action context variables. They also added a new page covering pack installation via ChatOPS, including configuration for autodeployment. Furthermore, they added a toctree to the development index to improve navigation and corrected spelling errors.
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