Aug 2024 – Jan 2025 · 5 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · Remote

• It was a short-term 6 months contract to support customer "Medline Industries" to drive their Cost of solution by Design (CoSD) initiative. My core responsibilities were:-
• Generating new ideas to save cloud costs through non-obvious optimization avenues.
• Driving the adoption of architecture optimization recommendations for compute, storage, DBs,
• Networking, Kubernetes, Log Analytics & Back-Ups.
• Support onboarding of new FinOps tool by carrying-out detailed POC.
• Training junior staff to make them hands-on to carry out daily operations.
• Automate business process through RPA.

Jan 2024 – Jul 2024 · 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• I took a career break to establish my own company specializing in providing real-time crowd analytics for various events, festivals & concerts.

Jun 2023 – Dec 2023 · 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Remote

• I was entrusted with optimizing a client's platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with an annual budget of $120 million.
• Spearheaded the development of a FinOps function, serving as a bridge between finance, engineering, and product departments. The goal was to enhance communication and ensure alignment towards customer-centric, profitable growth.
• Implemented and integrated a comprehensive set of tools and processes to effectively manage and monitor cloud expenditure. Established governance policies to oversee cloud and data center costs, drive financial accountability, and achieve value realization with clearly defined KPIs and success metrics.

Aug 2022 – May 2023 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• I am managing optimization efforts for 1 platform with a combined spend of $20mn/yr.
• Consumption tracking across all cloud vendors and consumption for all clients hosted on o9 tenants.
• Enable growth/credit programs across our cloud vendors to utilize available advantages: funding and resources.
• Support negotiations for Enterprise Agreements for each cloud, and ensure o9 unlocks competitive advantages.
• Liaise with and support the o9 accounting team and Deal Desk and support customer-facing cloud consultations, covering advantages and disadvantages based on client needs
• Submit investment and discount program requests to partners to support client DPPs.
• Oversee and maintain an overview of Marketplace transactions for all clouds when applicable.
• Support documentation to educate internally on all matters related to hosting (with the Alliance team).

Oct 2021 – Aug 2022 · 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

• I was responsible for managing optimization efforts for 300+ applications & 1 platform with a combined spend of $40mn/year.
• Following are the tasks that I was responsible for:-
• 1. Forecasting Cloud consumption cost.
• 2. Setting up budgets and implement financial guardrails to prevent budget overflows.
• 3. Monthly chargebacks reporting for allocating cost and provide cost visibility.
• 4. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with cloud representatives to optimize cloud costs:-
• a) Design Optimization
• b) Rate Optimization
• c) Usage Optimization
• d) Location Arbitrage
• 5. Vendor Management - Royalty reports, creating POs, Submitting Invoices before the due date.

Jun 2021 – Oct 2021 · 4 mos

• I was managing optimization efforts for 8 applications & 6 platforms with a combined spend of $20mn/yr.
• Got Promoted for my efforts in automation and meeting the KPIs.

May 2018 – Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• One of the best decisions I made by joining this wonderful organization. Learned a lot here.
• I helped establish and mature the FinOps practice area in this organization.
• Worked proactively with client/project teams to help them to optimize their Cloud Costs using:-
• 1. Usage Optimization Techniques:-
• a. Right-Sizing Instances
• b. Eliminating Waste and Zombie resources.
• 2. ($)Rate Optimization Techniques:-
• a. Purchasing RIs & Savings Plans, CUDs and motoring their coverage.
• 2. Provide visibility to the stakeholders regarding cost management issues.
• 3. Chargeback Report Creation - Distributing costs accurately among customers.
• 4. Automate manual report creation tasks using.
• 5. Enforcing Cloud Governance & tagging policies of the organization among all the cloud resources.
• 6. Organize and maintain cost data which is used to derive data-driven insights.
• 7. Constantly work towards improving the experience and satisfaction of the customers and stakeholders.

Mar 2018 – May 2018 · 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• I had very short stint here. I was the Relationship Manager and I was responsible for being the primary interface between client and the bank. Starting from cold calling clients to on-boarding them as a new customer to the bank and then providing re-solutions for their funding requests was my job.

May 2017 – Jun 2017 · 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• This was an internship part of MBA program. I was in the loan department where I had to analyze loan proposal documents of the partially on-boarded clients to calculate interest rate for their risk profile.

Jun 2013 – Jul 2013 · 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• This was my 1st internship where I worked as a Business Analyst on the project Document Management System which HP India was building for UIDAI.
• I gathered the requirements and documented them.