Justin Talbott
Senior Engineer at Atlassian
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Talbott is a Senior Engineer based in New York with 14 years of full-stack experience building user-facing products and shaping architecture from startups to scale-ups. He has progressed from freelance development through lead architect roles to senior engineering positions at companies like FutureProof Retail, Welcome Homes, Rewatch, and now Atlassian, consistently delivering measurable impact. Equally at home in frontend and backend work, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a focus on developer experience—evident in his notable open-source contributions to the popular Emacs use-package library, where he added advanced binding and package-management features. His background in cinematography informs a strong eye for UX and storytelling in product design, and he’s known for improving tooling and workflows that accelerate teams. Colleagues describe him as an Emacs enthusiast who brings thoughtful craftsmanship and long-term maintainability to complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor's degree Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Ithaca College
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Github Skills (5)
autoloader10
emacs10
autoload10
handlers10
emacs-lisp10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jwiegley/use-package
Sep 2014 - Jun 2019
A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 17 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the `use-package` Emacs Lisp library, enhancing its functionality and usability. Their work included adding new keywords like `:bind*`, `:chords`, and `:ensure-system-package` along with the associated handler logic. They also implemented features such as string value support in the `:bind` keyword, refined binding normalization, and improved the overall syntax and error handling of the library. These changes improved the binding capabilities and package management for Emacs users.
deferred-loadingelispkeymapautoloadsimplifying
waymondo/org-repo-todo
Feb 2014 - Dec 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 11 months
org-modetodo
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