Neil Middleton
Principal Engineer at Transform
Horsham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorNeil Middleton is a Principal Engineer with over 25 years of experience building fast, reliable web applications, APIs, and core data services across startups and scale-ups. He combines hands-on full-stack development with engineering leadership, having scaled Heroku’s PaaS to 100,000+ instances and held senior roles at Zendesk and multiple UK tech firms. Comfortable in remote, asynchronous environments, he focuses on solving real user problems while coaching teams through trust, autonomy, and transparent practices. An O’Reilly author and active open-source contributor, he has improved UX and stability in projects like CodeTriage, demonstrating attention to onboarding and test quality. Beyond engineering, he volunteers as a Commissioned Officer with the Royal Air Force Air Cadets, reflecting a long-standing commitment to youth leadership and community service.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
codetriage/CodeTriage
Nov 2012 - Mar 2013
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:48 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience of the CodeTriage application. Their commits involve significant styling tweaks and layout changes, particularly to enhance the flow of new user onboarding and repo subscription processes. Furthermore, the user contributed to fixing broken specs, suggesting a focus on maintaining code quality and ensuring the application's stability. These changes span multiple areas, including front-end and back-end changes related to rendering the user interface, and testing integration.
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neilmiddleton/neilmiddleton.github.io
Mar 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:12 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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