Hello! We’re Fat Potato, an IT consultancy based in Cheltenham.

We offer experienced engineers with expertise in a range of technologies and languages.

We’re Experts in our field

Fat Potato are a unique, family operated SME founded in 2016 who’ve operated primarily in the defence sector. During this time we’ve grown and expanded our presence, having worked across multiple major projects where we’ve delivered high-quality software solutions in challenging and demanding environments. We’ve also got a range of proven expertise in a wide array of technical specialisms.

We primarily work with businesses to transform their legacy applications using modern Microservice driven architectures. We make use of cloud native technologies to enhance performance, reduce costs and improve the observability, relieving the support and maintenance burden of systems.

Whilst Fat Potato has a broad range of capabilities, we mainly focus on Software development. With most of our developers working on Cloud centric roles, many of our team are AWS certified to a high level, allowing for our staff to both inform, educate and help create the right solutions for our customers.

We take our environmental impact seriously and do our best to minimise it, adopting beneficial technology and working practices where we can. We have embraced distributed working technology, which gives employees more control of their work/life balance whilst reducing our carbon footprint from work related travel and office facility heating and utilities.

EXPERIENCE & CERTIFICATIONS

Whilst we believe certification is an important measurement, we know experience is required to backup and build on those learnings. Fat Potato employees specialise in modern day technology solutions and frameworks. Some of these include, but not limited to, the following:

Polyglot Programming

We embrace a Polyglot Programming approach, leveraging a diverse range of languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript (Node/React) and Go, combined with expertise in multiple database technologies and Cloud-native solutions.

Secure by Design

We develop solutions that prioritise security from the ground up, integrating robust measures at every stage of development to ensure data integrity and protection against cyber threats.

CI/CD

We specialise in GitOps-driven development, combining the release process with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform) to automate and optimise the deployment process.

Security & Vulnerability Management

Integrating tools like Trivy, SonarQube and FindBugs into the build process to ensure every build is fully compliant with the latest security definitions.

Test & Business Driven Development

Our team employs a BDD approach alongside industry-leading testing frameworks such as Cucumber and Selenium to ensure that every line of code aligns with business objectives.

Agile and DevOps

We can support the development process through use of supporting roles, with certified Scrum Masters, Project Managers and Delivery Leads. We also look to support the complete delivery of software through the use of modern DevOps practices.

Containerisation

As early adopters of containerisation, we possess a deep expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, and associated AWS technologies like ECS and EKS. We always drive to provide a containerised first solution, allowing us to make use of Microservice driven architectures and serverless development patterns.

CNCF Technologies

We are experts in the Cloud native landscape, our engineers always seek to use the latest industry recommend tooling to provide the best solutions to our customer.

ETL for AI/ML

With a long history in high performance Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes, we can develop highly optimised AI/ML workflows, ensuring seamless data integration, cleansing, and preparation to drive insights and innovation in machine learning applications.

Certifications

Our employees undergo ongoing training, obtaining certifications at various levels including AWS Professional, Associate, and Practitioner, as well as certifications in Kubernetes Application Development, Kubernetes Administration, and Kubernetes for Web Developers.

Why Fat Potato

Over the past 5 years, we have engaged and provided services in relation, but not limited to:

Back & Front-End Software Development
Organisation and Scrum Mastering of teams
Cloud Architectural Design
Air-gapped CI/CD Software Integration
SRE and Mission Support
Project/Delivery management of software teams

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