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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/
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Good luck Chris - thank you for your immense contributions to GOV.UK. We'll miss you.