Bevan Loon, Lead Developer at the Government Digital Service (GDS)

The technical architecture behind a GOV.UK account

Bevan Loon, Lead Developer at the Government Digital Service (GDS) and Erin Raj-Staniland, Technical Architect at the Government Digital Service (GDS), 7 January 2021 - Vision and plans

We are working on and learning about the technical architecture behind building an account through our GOV.UK account trial on the Brexit checker.

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