FinOpsPod

Episode 8 FinOpsPod Voicemail: Cloud Sustainability

FinOpsPod checks their voicemail and receives a question on Cloud Sustainability from Prabha Palanivelu. Mark Butcher swoops in and provides a quick answer and pitches you to join the FinOps Foundation Sustainability Working Group. To join the working group, join the Foundation to get Slack access and join the channel #wg-finops-for-sustainability.

• Prabhagaran Palanivelu | LinkedIn
• Leave FinOpsPod a voicemail
• Mark Butcher | LinkedIn

Episode 7 Pedro Veloso - Bridging the Gap Between Finance & I.T.

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.

Also, special-guest appearance by Finn the Dog.

• Pedro Matos Veloso | LinkedIn
• Spotify Scaling Agile Model - PM Today

Episode 6 Jason Rhoades - Attribution, Tags & Labels . . . OH MY!

It's the episode about tags, labels, account structures - how you attribute your cloud usage and spend to information that is important to you! Learn how to start, evolve and mature your attribution strategy with insights from Jason Rhoades, Development Manager at Intuit.

• Jason Rhoades | LinkedIn
• Cost Allocation (Metadata & Hierarchy)

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Episode 5 FinOps Careers: Beginning the FinOps journey

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. What is similar to your path? What is different?

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• Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome
• Hector J. Meneses Jr. | LinkedIn
• Kate Ferguson | LinkedIn
• Vijaya Karthavya Kudithipudi, PMP® | LinkedIn
• FinOps March 2022 Summit - More State of FinOps Data - YouTube
• FinOps X | Linux Foundation Events - Registration and information for FinOps X

Learn more and join the FinOps Foundation at www.FinOps.org.

Episode 4 Kim Wier - FinOps as Product Part 1

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. We also dive into the why and how Kim's team are building their own FinOps toolset. You do not want to miss this conversation!

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• FinOps March 2022 Summit - More State of FinOps Data - YouTube
• Kim Wier | LinkedIn
• Target CIO Mike McNamara: Technology is too important to outsource | CIO

Learn more and join the FinOps Foundation at www.FinOps.org.

Episode 3 FinOps Foundation in the U.K.

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. Then get an overview of the staff offsite in Edinburgh.

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London Roadshow presenters:

Natalie Daley

Bhups Hirani

Sanjay Apte

Learn more and join the FinOps Foundation at www.FinOps.org.

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Ben de Mora - The Chaos Is To Be Embraced

Ben de Mora may be the newest staff member at the FinOps Foundation, but he is absolutely not new to the Foundation at all. Ben has been a FinOps Instructor for years and he shares his experiences teaching the FinOps Certified Practitioner course. The conversation goes in a number of different directions - architecture, sustainability, estimated cloud costs and banjo. As Ben reminds us, the chaos is to be embraced.

Key Moments

06:52 - FinOps Certified Practitioner Course

11:08 - FinOps & Architecture

18:52 - Implications of preemptible compute and sustainability

24:57 - Cost estimates while launching infrastructure

• FinOps X, June 20-21, Austin, Texas
• FinOps NYC Meetup Jan 2022: Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, co-founder Infracost - YouTube
• FinOps Training & Certification
• Ben de Mora | LinkedIn
• New Shoes - Eric Bibb | Song Info | AllMusic - Song that Ben's father plays banjo on.

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Learn more about the FinOps Foundation at FinOps.org.

Episode 1 Deana Solis - Building Trust & FinOps Culture

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.

During the interview, Deana goes over the importance of community, diversity and how to build trust when implementing a FinOps culture.

Key Moments:

[10:46] - Thinking about people when designing policies and process

[15:18] - Culture clashes between new and experienced workers when implementing change

[20:08] - Finance vs Engineering culture clashes

[23:06] - Diversity in styles of work

[32:11] - "Not Savings Plans for RDS"

Relevant Links

Deana Solis LinkedIn Profile

Noel Crowley LinkedIn Profile

Stacy Case LinkedIn Profile

Joe Daly LinkedIn Profile

FinOps Foundation Shared Costs Working Group - Guide to Spreading Out Shared Costs

Learn more and join the FinOps Foundation at www.FinOps.org.

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