FinOpsPod connects practitioners with the rest of the FinOps Foundation community. Real world practitioners will share their experiences and the Foundation team will share the latest news about the community.
J.R. Storment & Mike Fuller, authors of Cloud FinOps – Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Value Decision Making, visit to discuss what updates were included in the expansive Second Edition.
Keith Austin from AIA, the first FinOps Foundation Enterprise Member in Asia, shares their story about their drive to be leaders in their region and their adoption of FinOps. Topics covered include training and development, challenges and success in FinOps adoption and collaborating with departments they had normally not interacted with.
FinOps Ambassador, Ermanno Attardo, discusses how to choose FinOps tools and build FinOps teams.
In a special episode – Joe & Stacy discuss traditional and nontraditional paths to a FinOps career and how to identify good candidates for a FinOps team. Share this quick episode with someone looking to get into FinOps or someone you think SHOULD get into FinOps!
Lindbergh Matillano, Director of the Cost Optimization team at Avalara, shares his experience and perspective towards FinOps and FinOps governance. How he leverages his heritage and his background in finance. Lindbergh also shares how to approach automating cloud governance.
Ashley Hromatko joins Stacy and Joe as they review some of their favorite FinOps moments of 2022. Plus – insights into what sort of content we are looking for at FinOps X 2023!
Zach Stitham, VP – Cloud Business Management Office at Fidelity, discusses culture building and FinOps KPIs with Ashley Hromatko. How do teams chose them? How do they mature them? How do teams drive the right behaviors and culture by leveraging them? Find out.
Rightsizing an under-utilized resource is an easy way to save on cloud costs, right? Or is it? In a conversation taken from the FinOps Foundation Slack channels, Jérémy Nancel & John Renne debate the pros and cons of reducing cloud spend by rightsizing resources vs incurring tech debt via code drift.
We all make mistakes. Some mistakes are just more expensive than others. In this episode, listen and learn from the experiences of others in the FinOps community who bravely share their experiences with runaway bills, outages and disaster recover tests gone wrong.
Alison McIntyre, Cloud FinOps Lead at Lloyds Banking Group, discusses what it feels like to start the FinOps Certified Professional course, thoughts on cloud-native application migrations, and the impact of risk and regulations.
Tony Johnson, fresh from presenting on Unit Economics at FinOps X, talks with Joe about how to start and mature using unit economics to manage your cloud environment.
Joe visits with some of his old friends and colleagues, Ursula LaVeck and Julia Harvey, to learn how they continued maturing their operations after implementing FinOps at their organizations.
We recap the first-ever FinOps X conference, including interviews with Eli Mansoor, Dieter Matzion, Aaron Edell, Mike Eisenstien, Alee Whitman, Dann Berg, Michelle Dupuis and many more!
FinOpsPod checks their voicemail and receives a question on GreenOps from Prabha Palanivelu. Mark Butcher swoops in and provides a quick answer and pitches you to join the FinOps Foundation Sustainability Working Group.
The Finance episode! Pedro Veloso, International Man of FinOps, has performed FinOps-style roles in Brazil and Germany. Joe & Pedro discuss finance diving into the world of cloud, some of the misconceptions, the challenges and the problems that need to be worked on in order to provide data for real-time decision making.
It’s the episode about tags, labels, account structures – how you attribute your cloud usage and spend to information that is important to you!
The FinOps career path continues to evolve. Hear the perspectives of three practitioners, Vijay Karthavya Kudithipudi, Kate Ferguson and Hector J. Meneses Jr., who have recently started their FinOps career journeys.
Kim Wier, Director of Efficiency Engineering at Target joins the show and shares her career path, how she has built her team, leveraging Target’s culture and commitment to learn.
Join the FinOps Foundation staff on their trip to the United Kingdom! Listen to clips of the London Roadshow and experience connecting with FinOps peers with Noel Crowley.
We’re joined by Ben de Mora, FinOps Instructor at the FinOps Foundation, and we discuss architecture, sustainability, estimated cloud costs and banjo. As Ben reminds us, the chaos is to be embraced.
FinOps Pod launches for the first time with guest is Deana Solis, Sr. FinOps Engineer at Smarsh. Deana has been an active practitioner member of the FinOps Foundation since early 2020 and has been an active contributor to working groups in the foundation.
