About the Author

J.R. is Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation (a program of the Linux Foundation), co-author of O'Reilly's book on cloud financial management called "Cloud FinOps, Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management", and was formerly the co-founder of Cloudability which was acquired by Apptio, where he served as the GM of Cloud & VP of Product. He has spent the last 25 years building web platforms and the last 10 working with thousands of the largest cloud spenders in the world--from GE to Nike to BP to Atlassian to Uber to Spotify-- to design strategies to optimize and analyze their cloud financial management discipline. Mike Fuller has worked at Atlassian's Sydney Australia head office for the past 10 years, currently as a Principal Engineer in the Cloud FinOps Team. Mike's role at Atlassian has him working with most of the AWS Services and assisting teams inside Atlassian to operate with security, high availability and cost efficiency. Mike was a key member in building Atlassian's cloud center of excellence which is responsible for the design, governance, and implementation of best practices at Atlassian. Mike holds a bachelor degree in Computer Science and 9 AWS certifications and has presented at multiple AWS Re: Invent and AWS Summit events on topics involving AWS Security and Cost Optimisation.