James Stewart is Director of Technical Architecture at GDS. He's been around since the alpha.gov.uk days, building out the technical underpinnings of GOV.UK and other new government platforms.
GDS is constantly on the lookout for great technologists to come and work with us. We have roles open at the moment for technical architects, developers, and web operations engineers but we have other more specific roles in the pipeline …
I spoke recently at the Business Reporter’s Data Security in the Cloud event about how security has changed to face the reality of the modern internet era. The old world of assurance and compliance and ‘security says no’ won't cut …
This week GDS hosted the second in a series of unconferences we’re organising to better connect the growing community of technologists in government. Building on the success of the recent technical standards camp, this time we were focussed on how we …
Last year GDS did a lot of discovery work. As well as ongoing work evaluating what was next for many of the things we were already doing, we built teams exploring possibilities for new platforms, and we worked with colleagues …
You may have noticed a couple of blog posts here recently about opening up code. The past few years have seen a lot of code released by teams across government both in the UK and internationally. That work is regularly …
Every now and then we like to flag posts from other GDS blogs (and maybe further afield) that we think you might be interested in: The GOV.UK team recently began publishing incident reports. Here's one on a spate of 504 …
Over the course of the past few years many teams across government have begun publishing their code under open source licenses. That's a change that's been pushed by the Digital by Default Service Standard but it's just as much a …
Meet Dan Appelquist. Dan’s just joined GDS to head up our work to build a community of practice around the use of (and contribution to) open standards in software projects across government. Here’s why that matters. What standards give us …
As the Government Digital Service (GDS) continues to take on new challenges, we're looking for a number of developers and web operations engineers to join us. The successful candidates will work across the full range of platforms and services that …
We're looking to significantly increase the size of our teams as we plan for the next phases of GOV.UK, GOV.UK Verify, the Performance Platform and other GDS projects. There are loads of different types of work to do and we're …