About Me

I have been working in Cloud FinOps since 2013 at companies like Google, Netflix, Intuit, and Roku. I am a FinOps Ambassador, a FinOps Certified Practitioner, an AWS Subject Matter Expert in Cloud Financial Management, an O'Reilly Media author, and a YouTube creator. You can find more about my thought leadership here. My core competencies include:

• Building and nurturing strong working relationships with executives, engineers, customers, and vendors to deliver successful outcomes.
• Develop planning models and processes to increase profit and improve efficiency while reducing cost and risk.
• Hands-on technical skills to understand and communicate technical challenges and to develop tools and automation.

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Experience

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  Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA 8/2020–Present
  Sr. Cloud Governance Engineer
  Cloud FinOps on AWS, GCP, and Azure

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  Intuit, Inc., Mountain View, CA 7/2016–8/2020
  Principal Business Systems Analyst
  Cloud FinOps on AWS, GCP, and Azure

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  Netflix, Inc., Los Gatos, CA 1/2015–7/2016
  Cloud Architect
  Cloud efficiency and performance on Amazon Web Services

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  Google Inc., Mountain View, CA 5/2013–12/2014
  Technical Program Manager
  Capacity planning and resource provisioning for Google's Content and Display Ads

Thought Leadership

Public Speaking

• Cyber Security & Cloud Congress: North America 2024
  Optimizing Cloud Costs: A FinOps Guide for Engineers agenda, speaker, slides

• O'Reilly Cloud Superstream 2024: Navigating FinOps
  Overcoming Cloud FinOps Challenges recording, slides

• AWS re:Invent 2022
  Using AWS savings instruments in a FinOps journey (PRT292) recording, slides

• CloudyCon 2019 an Apptio conference
  Intuit Cloud Cost Optimization slides

• CloudLive 2019 a VMware conference
  Intuit Cloud Cost Optimization slides

• AWS re:Invent 2019
  Manage, control, and optimize costs with native AWS products, ft. Intuit (CMP207) slides

• CloudHealth 2018
  Cloud Cost Optimization and Efficiency at Intuit slides, recap

• AWS re:Invent 2018
  Manage, Control, and Optimize Your AWS Costs with Native AWS Products (ENT305) slides

• AWS re:Invent 2016
  Start Your Cost Optimization: Learning from Intuit’s Cloud Journey (ENT315) recording, slides

Training

• O'Reilly Media
  Cloud FinOps: Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management, 2nd Edition, 2023, ISBN: 9781492098355 Author profile.

• O'Reilly Media
  Cloud FinOps: Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management, 1st Edition, 2019, ISBN: 9781492054573

• O'Reilly Media
  Managing Cloud Costs - How to apply FinOps strategies to decrease your cloud spend Oct & Dec 2019.

• Cloud Academy
  FinOps: Forecasting Cloud Costs preview. Author profile.

• Cloud Academy
  Cloud Financial Management: Beyond Just Optimization preview

• Cloud Academy
  Cost Optimization Strategies for the Cloud preview

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