Matt Lea
Cloud Demolition Expert at Schematical.com
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Lea is a seasoned cloud-focused founder and engineer with 13 years of experience helping organizations run reliably and securely on AWS. As founder of Schematical.com and current "Cloud Demolition Expert" at Cloud War Games, he specializes in real-world, hands-on resilience training and operational hardening that helps CTOs sleep at night. He blends practical startup grit—having launched and led multiple ventures including Castdex and DrawnBy.ai—with deep operational expertise in cost, scaling, and security. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Matt pairs coaching and leadership experience from years as a gymnastics coach with technical mentorship, making him adept at training teams under pressure. He’s equally at home orchestrating live-fire AWS exercises as he is building pragmatic, production-ready cloud tooling. A prolific entrepreneur, his career shows a pattern of turning complex systems into teachable, repeatable practices that reduce risk and improve uptime.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Washington Park High SchoolMadison Area Technical College
Github Skills (159)
cms10
web-application10
command-line-interface10
javascript10
ghost10
nodejs10
aws-cli10
amazon-web-services10
aws10
text-to-image9
angular9
minecraft9
ember9
audience9
journalism9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
schematical/sc-terraform
May 2023 - Jun 2026
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 PRs, 175 pushes in 3 years 1 month
schematical/njax
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 75 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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