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10 cloud cost optimization and FinOps experts
These ten FinOps and cloud cost professionals have run cloud cost optimization inside the companies they worked for, in roles from FinOps engineer and lead to head of FinOps. They can explain how to build a FinOps practice, allocate and forecast cloud spend, and get engineering teams to act on savings.
Professionals to explore
01—10Alex Kuan
LinkedInExperience: Staff FinOps FinOps Lead · Arlo Technologies, Inc.
Staff FinOps FinOps Lead at Arlo Technologies, Inc. since December 2024, after serving as Senior FinOps Manager (Financial Operations) at Takeda (2021–2024). His profile describes him as a FinOps leader in the tech and pharmaceutical industries who manages cloud consumption for AWS and Azure, with experience in on-premises to cloud migration and implementing FinOps best practices.
Chitra Jadhav
LinkedInExperience: Head, FinOps · Dayforce
Former Head, FinOps at Dayforce (2023–2026) and at Thales (2022–2023), and Sr. Manager FinOps at Rogers Communications since March 2026. Her profile says she has built scalable, customized cost frameworks that make cloud economics understandable, defensible and actionable, and her headline lists GCP and AWS cost work, cloud governance, and AI and ML cost management.
Dan Stodolka
LinkedInExperience: Cloud Optimization Manager, Cloud Transformation Program · 3M
Cloud Optimization Manager, Cloud Transformation Program at 3M since 2020, after R&D IT supervisor and manager roles at 3M from 2012. His profile says he delivered on financial responsibilities for an enterprise cloud migration, forecasting cloud spend and achieving results within forecast, and played a key role in forming a FinOps team that generated $200k in savings.
David Keehn
LinkedInExperience: Head Of Cloud Financial Operations · Cleveland Clinic
Former Head Of Cloud Financial Operations at Cleveland Clinic (2022–2024) and Director, Cloud Financial Operations at WarnerMedia (2018–2020), after serving as Director, Technology Strategic Planning at Turner (2011–2018). His profile says he has led the FinOps practices for three large organizations, two of them built from the ground up. He founded AmbiCloud FinOps Services in 2025.
Mudassar Shahab
LinkedInExperience: Lead CCOE FinOps · Johnson & Johnson
Former Lead CCOE FinOps at Johnson & Johnson (2022–2025) and Manager Cloud Operations FinOps at Mount Sinai Health System (2018–2022). Since November 2025 he has worked in FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization & Strategy in the Cloud Business Office at LexisNexis, and his profile says he leads enterprise FinOps programs focused on cloud economics and engineering accountability.
Nathan King
LinkedInExperience: Head of FinOps · Sky
Head of FinOps at Sky since June 2022, after serving as Cloud FinOps Lead there (2020–2022) and earlier as Lead Google Cloud Architect and in storage and backup roles at Sky from 2012. His profile says he defined and implemented FinOps processes, procedures and guidelines at Sky, first on his own and then by building and leading a centralised FinOps team, later expanded with cloud engineers who build in-house multi-cloud cost and configuration dashboards.
Puja K.
LinkedInExperience: Director Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) · Epsilon
Director Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) at Epsilon since March 2023, after serving there as IT Cloud Optimization Analyst (2018–2021) and Senior Manager, Cloud Financial Operations Optimization Analyst (2022–2023). Her headline lists multi-cloud optimization, cost transparency and chargeback, automation, vendor management and financial governance.
Shine Mathew
LinkedInExperience: Cloud FinOps Manager · Nissan Digital India LLP
Cloud FinOps Manager at Nissan Digital India LLP since February 2024, with a profile that describes leading the FinOps practice at Nissan Digital Hub and managing AWS cost optimization. Earlier roles were at HCLTech (2017–2024), including Senior Management Trainee, Deputy Manager and Manager.
Srikar Bhamidipati
LinkedInExperience: AVP, FinOps Program Leader · Synchrony
AVP, FinOps Program Leader at Synchrony since March 2026, after serving there as IT Developer (2023–2025) and FinOps Engineer (2025–2026). His profile says he leads the enterprise FinOps program as cloud cost program leader within the Technology & Operations Governance team, managing multi-cloud platforms, services and best practices, and monitors and analyzes cloud spend.
Vijay Kurra
LinkedInExperience: Senior Manager Cloud Finops · Tenable
Senior Manager Cloud Finops at Tenable since March 2024, after serving as Cost Optimization Lead there (2021–2024). He was earlier Cost Optimization Architect at Capital One (2016–2020) and Solutions Architect - Cost Optimization at Amazon Web Services (2020–2021). His profile describes 10+ years optimizing cloud usage and costs, including negotiating discounts, optimizing usage and leading cost-saving initiatives across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's cloud mix and company scale to yours, since AWS-heavy, multi-cloud and hybrid estates raise different questions. If you are starting a practice from scratch, favor people whose note describes building a FinOps team or program.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you structure cost allocation, tagging and showback or chargeback so teams accepted ownership of their spend?
- 02Which optimization levers, such as commitments, rightsizing or architecture changes, produced the most durable savings, and which did not last?
- 03How did you staff the FinOps function and split responsibilities between finance, engineering and procurement?
About this directory
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