10 cloud cost optimization and FinOps experts
Cloud cost optimization and FinOps titles here run from a Synchrony FinOps engineer turned program leader to three people who have held Head of FinOps or Head of Cloud Financial Operations titles, with a 3M cloud optimization manager and a former AWS cost optimization solutions architect in between. Talk to them before standing up a cloud cost practice, choosing between central and team-level ownership of savings, or forecasting spend for a cloud migration.
Professionals to explore
Alex Kuan
LinkedInExperience: Staff FinOps FinOps Lead · Arlo Technologies, Inc.
Staff FinOps FinOps Lead at Arlo Technologies, Inc. since 2024, Alex Kuan was Senior FinOps Manager (Financial Operations) at Takeda (2021-2024). Alex describes managing cloud consumption on AWS and Azure across tech and pharmaceutical companies, with experience in on-premises to cloud migration, so can speak to how FinOps differs between those two settings.
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Chitra Jadhav
LinkedInExperience: Former Head, FinOps · Dayforce
Cost frameworks that make cloud economics understandable and actionable are what Chitra Jadhav describes building, plus AI and ML cost management on GCP, AWS and Azure. Chitra has been Sr. Manager FinOps at Rogers Communications since 2026 and was Head, FinOps at both Dayforce (2023-2026) and Thales (2022-2023), with a Sr FinOps Expert role at Adastra (2023-2024), useful for anyone setting up cost reporting for leadership.
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Dan Stodolka
LinkedInExperience: Cloud Optimization Manager, Cloud Transformation Program · 3M
3M's Cloud Optimization Manager, Cloud Transformation Program since 2020, Dan Stodolka was Manager, Research and Development IT - Technical & High Performance Computing at 3M (2016-2020). Dan handled financial responsibilities for an enterprise cloud migration, forecast the cloud spend and came in within forecast, and helped form a FinOps team generating $200k in savings, a fit for migration budgeting questions.
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David Keehn
LinkedInExperience: Former Head Of Cloud Financial Operations · Cleveland Clinic
AmbiCloud FinOps Services is the firm David Keehn founded in 2025. David was also Head Of Cloud Financial Operations at Cleveland Clinic (2022-2024), Senior Advisor, Finance Operations at Northwell Health (2024-2025) and Director, Cloud Financial Operations at WarnerMedia (2018-2020). In their own words, David has led FinOps practices for three large organizations, two built from the ground up, so can compare starting a practice with inheriting one.
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Mudassar Shahab
LinkedInExperience: Lead CCOE FinOps · Johnson & Johnson
Mudassar Shahab's FinOps roles span four employers: LexisNexis (FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization & Strategy- Cloud Business Office, since 2025), Virginia Department of Transportation (Lead FinOps Practitioner- Program Manager FinOps, 2025), Johnson & Johnson (Lead CCOE FinOps, 2022-2025) and Mount Sinai Health System (Manager Cloud Operations FinOps, 2018-2022). Mudassar describes leading enterprise FinOps programs on cloud economics and engineering accountability, with FOCUS and FinOps for AI work.
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Nathan King
LinkedInExperience: Head of FinOps · Sky
Head of FinOps at Sky since 2022, Nathan King was Cloud FinOps Lead there (2020-2022) and also held architect roles at Sky, including Lead Google Cloud Architect (2018-2020). Nathan defined and implemented FinOps processes at Sky, first alone and then by building and managing a centralised FinOps team that grew to include cloud engineers building in-house multi-cloud cost and configuration dashboards, a fit for questions on growing a practice from one person.
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Puja K.
LinkedInExperience: Director Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) · Epsilon
Puja K. has been Director Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) at Epsilon since 2023, after Senior Manager, Cloud Financial Operations Optimization Analyst there (2022-2023) and an earlier IT Cloud Optimization Analyst role at Epsilon (2018-2021). Puja lists multi-cloud optimization, cost transparency and chargeback, vendor management and AI FinOps governance, making Puja the person to ask about chargeback design.
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Shine Mathew
LinkedInExperience: Former Cloud FinOps Manager · Nissan Digital India LLP
Since 2024 Shine Mathew has been Cloud FinOps Manager at Nissan Digital India LLP, after a Manager role at HCLTech (2017-2024). Shine leads the FinOps practice at Nissan Digital Hub and manages AWS cost optimization there, a fit for questions on running a FinOps practice focused on AWS savings.
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Srikar Bhamidipati
LinkedInExperience: Former AVP, FinOps Program Leader · Synchrony
At Synchrony, Srikar Bhamidipati became AVP, FinOps Program Leader in 2026 after a year as FinOps Engineer (2025-2026) and two years as IT Developer (2023-2025). Srikar leads the enterprise FinOps program within the Technology & Operations Governance team, managing multi-cloud platforms and monitoring cloud spend, which suits questions on where FinOps sits in a governance structure.
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Vijay Kurra
LinkedInExperience: Senior Manager Cloud Finops · Tenable
Senior Manager Cloud Finops at Tenable since 2024, Vijay Kurra was Cost Optimization Lead at Tenable (2021-2024) before that. Vijay was also Solutions Architect - Cost Optimization at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2020-2021) and Cost Optimization Architect at Capital One (2016-2020), and reports cutting costs by 20% or more through negotiated discounts and usage optimization, useful for commitment and discount decisions.
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Choose the right perspective
Nathan King, Chitra Jadhav and David Keehn have held the head-of-practice titles and suit questions on building a FinOps team from scratch. Dan Stodolka fits migration forecasting, Alex Kuan fits on-premises to cloud migration questions, Vijay Kurra fits discount negotiation and usage cuts, and Puja K. fits chargeback and cost transparency.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01When you first set up FinOps, what did you centralize and what did you push to engineering teams to own?
- 02How do you forecast cloud spend during a migration from on-premises when usage patterns are still unknown?
- 03What showback or chargeback model got engineering teams to actually act on savings recommendations?
About this directory
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