Justin Middleton
Software Engineer at Google
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Middleton is a software engineer and researcher with 11 years of experience, currently building developer tools at Google after completing a PhD in Computer Science at NC State. His work blends rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods to study how teams, tools, and communities shape software development, with hands-on experience mining data, conducting interviews, and running experiments. He’s delivered production and experimental refactoring tools for C++ and Clang, investigated continuous integration’s effect on developer productivity, and designed user studies for product-facing interfaces. Comfortable moving between compiler internals, large-scale data analysis, and human-centered research, he helps make tooling both correct and usable for diverse developer populations. Outside work he pursues puzzles, trivia competitions, music, and running—habits that echo his methodical curiosity and endurance for long-term research.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 4.0 at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, 4.0, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, 4.0 at Auburn University
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Github Skills (5)
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spotify-api5
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Github contributions (5)
jalanmiddleton/BillboardTimeTravel
Aug 2016 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 99 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 9 months
songsspotifyspotify-web-apimusicplaylists
DeveloperLiberationFront/FlushFill
Apr 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 release, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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