Himal Mandalia, Head of Technology at GOV.UK, Government Digital Service (GDS)

Platforms and services: the GOV.UK architecture strategy

Himal Mandalia, Head of Technology at GOV.UK, Government Digital Service (GDS), 9 September 2021 - GDS team, Vision and plans

Find out how we’re meeting changing users’ expectations by evolving our architecture and infrastructure to be platforms and services.

We’re hiring more technologists for GOV.UK

Himal Mandalia, Head of Technology at GOV.UK, Government Digital Service (GDS), 9 April 2021 - GDS team, Working with us

We’re hiring developers, technical architects and site reliability engineers for the next chapter of GOV.UK: dynamic content and personalisation. Come join us.

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