Pete Goddard
London, England, United Kingdom
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RockstarPete Goddard is a seasoned software developer and consultant with over 30 years in the industry and two decades championing Agile delivery, currently based in London. He combines full-stack engineering chops with growing expertise in Generative AI and prompt engineering after collaborating with OpenAI on the UK government's gov.uk/chat project. Comfortable leading and mentoring cross-disciplinary teams, Pete has a track record of driving projects from concept to production across public sector platforms and commercial startups. His open-source contributions to GOV.UK tooling highlight a pragmatic focus on data integrity and operational monitoring, not just feature delivery. Pragmatic, curious and people-focused, he enjoys bridging the gap between product, policy and engineering to build useful, trustworthy software.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (8)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
postgresql9
api9
apim9
datagovuk8
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 45 PRs, 108 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Pete primarily contributed to data migrations, removing incorrect role assignments and erroneous user/role entries. They also focused on refining the presentation of HTML attachments, specifically addressing the `primary_publishing_organisation` in relation to the publishing API. Moreover, the user enhanced the admin dashboard by integrating links to the content data application and added tracking for these external links. These actions reflect an effort to maintain data integrity and improve application monitoring.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
alphagov/govuk-content-quality-metrics
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Prototype of API for content quality metrics based on retext
Contributions:8 PRs, 6 pushes, 8 branches in 5 months
apiretextprototypequality-metricsmetrics
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