FinOpsPod – The FinOps Podcast

Joe and Stacy review the stats on FinOpsPod in 2023 and Ambassadors share about their year and what their plans are for 2024.

Sarah Kula & Svetlana Pogrebny share their story about a tagging strategy that didn't work and how they went about fixing it.

Joe asks attendees at the DC Roadshow "What FinOps thing have you learned this year?"

Jason Fuller, Head of Cloud at HERE Technologies, looks back at lessons learned from doing FinOps since long before it was called FinOps.

Matt Randle & Lori Doon discuss how collaboration between IT and Finance can help speed up and add value to the business.

Victoria Levy and Keith Knowles of the Anomalies Working Group describe cloud cost anomalies, their lifecycle, and how to detect and manage them.

We celebrate FinOps X 2023 and our community. This includes memorable moments, important announcements like FOCUS, new FinOps Foundation TAC members, and FinOps X 2024 info.

Anastasija Jakovleva, FinOps Practitioner at FLSmidth, gives us a look at her X '23 session on how to get FinOps buy-in when Cloud isn't yet a major focus of the company.

Thiago Gil previews his FinOps X '23 session discussing the FinOps and financial challenges, and ethical implications inherent in ML Ops/AI.

Kate Ferguson, FinOps Practitioner, lends a few tips on choosing the proper FinOps KPIs and reporting to educate and inform specific personas.

Target's FinOps Practitioners Kim Wier and Ron Tatro tell us their experiences of operating FinOps as a Product at the retail giant.

Sherri Wooldridge, FinOps Practitioner, shares her wisdom on how to scale FinOps as a team of one, and how to navigate unexpected change.

Amy Ashby, FinOps Practitioner at UnderArmour, explains best practices involving troubleshooting cost anomalies and trends.

J.R. Storment & Mike Fuller, authors of the official Cloud FinOps book, discuss what updates were included in the expansive Second Edition.

Keith Austin from AIA, the first FinOps Foundation Enterprise Member in Asia, shares their organization's FinOps adoption story.

Rob Martin and FinOps Pro and Ambassador, Ermanno Attardo talk about what to consider when choosing FinOps tools and building teams.

Joe & Stacy discuss traditional and nontraditional paths to a FinOps career and how to identify good candidates for a FinOps team.

Lindbergh Matillano, Director of the Cost Optimization team at Avalara, shares his perspective on FinOps and hints at the value automation can unlock.

Ashley Hromatko joins Stacy and Joe as they review some of their favorite FinOps moments of 2022, and what's cooking for FinOps X 2023!

Zach Stitham, VP - Cloud Business Management Office at Fidelity, discusses building a FinOps culture with a "KPI first" approach.

Jérémy Nancel & John Renne, FinOps Practitioners, debate the pros and cons of reducing cloud spend by rightsizing resources vs incurring tech debt via code drift.

Listen and learn from the experiences of others in the FinOps community who bravely share their experiences with runaway bills, outages and disaster recovery tests gone wrong.

Alison McIntyre, FinOps Ambassador Emeritus, discusses the FinOps Certified Professional course, cloud-native application migrations, and risk and regulations.

Tony Johnson, FinOps Ambassador, talks about how to start and mature using unit economics to manage your cloud environment.

Ursula LaVeck and Julia Harvey of Nationwide discuss how they continue maturing their operations after adopting and implementing FinOps.

We recap the first-ever FinOps X conference, including interviews with community practitioners fresh out of the experience.

FinOpsPod answers questions about Sustainability and Mark Butcher talks about the related community Working Group.

Joe & Pedro discuss finance diving into the world of cloud, misconceptions, and what needs to be worked on in order to provide data for real-time FinOps decision making.

Learn how to start, evolve and mature your cloud FinOps attribution strategy with insights from Jason Rhoades, Development Manager at Intuit.

Hear the perspectives of three FinOps practitioners who have recently started their FinOps career journeys.

Kim Wier, Director of Efficiency Engineering at Target, shares her journey, and how she has built her team by leveraging Target's culture and commitment to learning.

The FinOps Foundation staff reflects on their trip to the U.K., discusses the London Roadshow, and experience connecting with FinOps peers.

Ben de Mora, former Instructor at the Foundation, discusses embracing FinOps chaos, architecture, sustainability, estimated cloud costs, and banjo.

We kickstart the podcast with Deana Solis, Sr. FinOps Engineer at Smarsh, as she discusses her journey and how she builds trust with her team.