Joe Attard

Senior Software Engineer @Go Green Ltd

London, GB

Helping to build a greenfield B2B SaaS platform from the ground up, focused on waste and sustainability management.Led the decision to adopt PostgreSQL over DynamoDB after benchmarking with Apache JMeter, demonstrating high performance as well as superior relational flexibility. This unlocked faster development cycles and helped realign the team with delivery targets.Helped define the core data model for the product, ensuring it supports current and future requirements with a scalable, maintainable structure.Supporting with migration of critical data from a legacy Laravel system to the new Go-based platform, with a strong focus on data integrity and migration tooling.Instilled Go best practices across the team, including error handling, service layering, and code clarity aligned with idiomatic Go.Played a key role in shaping CI/CD pipelines, introduced and maintained database migrations, integration tests, and robust deployment workflows using SST and GitLab CI.Worked closely with the product team to develop a PoC for a pricing service, utilising Golang, SSR with gohtml templates, and htmx for reactivity. This allowed rapid development, deployment and subsequently user testing for quick, iterative feedback, helping the team to further refine the product requirements. The work has helped improve system performance, accelerated developer onboarding, and laid a clean, scalable foundation for future features.

University of Kent

Master's degree, Physics With Astrophysics (MPhys)

Birkbeck, University of London

Certificate of Higher Education, Physics and Mathematics