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GOV.UK is built by a team at the Government Digital Service (with thanks to Martha!) in London, | ||
Bristol and Manchester. If you’d like to join us, see https://gdscareers.gov.uk/ | ||
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Chris Banks is leaving us today. Since joining GDS' Site Reliability Engineering community in 2019, Chris | ||
has seen GOV.UK through some tumultuous times. He's helped to keep GOV.UK reliable and (mostly) free of | ||
incidents, while at the same time leading GOV.UK's largest software infrastructure project - rebuilding | ||
the foundations that GOV.UK runs on. | ||
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Throughout Chris' time working on GOV.UK he's had a relentless focus on eliminating waste, both in terms of | ||
cloud spend and engineering processes. Combined with his incredible attention to detail and desire to build | ||
things the right way, he's ensured that GOV.UK's new infrastructure is built to stand the test of time. Chris | ||
and his team's work on modernising GOV.UK's infrastructure is a story that GDS is truly proud of. | ||
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Chris also worked on the COVID team, one of the most demanding and challenging programmes GDS has ever undertaken. | ||
Chris was famous for running head first into the technical fires as the first responder, triaging and solving | ||
many problems that had a huge real world impact on people's lives. | ||
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Chris has taught us all so much about computers, networking, and how to handle the shock and horror of | ||
discovering how a bit of technology actually works. | ||
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Good luck Chris - thank you for your immense contributions to GOV.UK. We'll miss you. |