Matthew Leak
Principal Technologist (CTO Office) at Government Digital Service
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Leak is a Principal Technologist with 12+ years of hands-on software and cloud engineering experience who now sits in the CTO Office at the Government Digital Service. He has a track record of shaping cloud, data and platform strategies across consultancies, startups and scale-ups, pairing deep technical fluency in TypeScript, Go, Python and serverless/cloud platforms with pragmatic delivery of resilient, cost-optimised systems. Matthew has led teams of up to 60, scaled engineering organisations internationally, and influenced board- and government-level stakeholders to translate technical roadmaps into measurable business outcomes. He combines product-focused platform leadership—improving performance, reliability and DORA metrics—with practical experience in data engineering (Airflow, Snowflake, Delta Lake) and infrastructure as code. Notably, he has repeatedly opened new engineering hubs and driven meaningful TCO reductions and revenue uplift through architecture and feature-led initiatives.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Self-Taught
German, English
Github Skills (123)
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
react10
mod-manager9
scaffolding9
app-framework9
mason9
mobile-development9
starter-kit9
firebase9
boilerplate9
firestore9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
leaky/generator-gulper
Feb 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 4 months
scaffoldweb-front-endgulpyeomantask-runner
jgardner04/serverless-openhack
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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