Serena Johnson
Appears in 13 Episodes
Sales Strategy Meets Practitioner Reality ft. Sean Kennedy and Amanda Wagner | Ep #78
What happens when you put the strategic and operational sides of FinOps in the same room? In this episode of FinOps in Action, host Taylor Houck welcomes two guests fo...
Engineering Enterprise FinOps ft. Piotr Kuczmera | Ep # 77
What if the biggest mistake your FinOps program makes is skipping the requirements phase entirely? In this episode of FinOps in Action, host Taylor Houck sits down wit...
The Price of Cost Awareness ft. Ruby Agarwal | Ep #76
What if the biggest cloud savings opportunity isn't hidden in your infrastructure, but in the decisions made before the first line of code is written? In this episode ...
Agentic FinOps and the AI Cost Explosion ft. Pathik Sharma | Ep #76
What does agentic FinOps actually look like in practice, and how should practitioners start thinking about it? Taylor Houck sits down with Pathik Sharma, Cloud Cost Op...
From IT Support to Enterprise Cloud Leader ft. Gerard Sanchez | Ep #77
What if the best FinOps practitioners are the ones who never set out to be FinOps practitioners at all? In this episode of FinOps in Action, host Taylor Houck sits dow...
The Cloud Only Era Is Over ft. Mike Jaco | Ep # 73
What if the biggest driver of cloud waste isn't what shows up in your billing dashboard? In this episode of FinOps in Action, Taylor sits down with Mike Jaco, who spen...
The Hidden Costs of Engineering ft. Kumar Singirikonda | Ep #72
What if the biggest cost problem in your organization never shows up on your cloud bill? In this episode of FinOps in Action, host Taylor Houck sits down with Kumar Si...
Effective Cloud Collaboration ft. Chitra Jadhav | Ep # 71
Are "bad tagging" and "unused resources" really the problem, or just the symptoms of a bigger one? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with senior FinOps m...
Engineering Meets FinOps ft. Matan Ben-Ishay, Credit Karma | Ep #70
What if your biggest cloud inefficiency isn’t how much you’re using, but how long your workloads are running? In this special episode of FinOps in Action, PointFive’s ...
How to Make Shared Data Costs Transparent at Scale ft. Oliver Milke, TD | Ep #69
How do you make cloud data costs transparent and actionable when thousands of users share the same platform? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with Olive...
Why Cloud Costs Are an Architecture Problem ft. Shailaja Beeram | Ep #68
Are “idle resources” really the problem, or just the easiest one to fix? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with cloud architect and engineer Shailaja Bee...
Using Unit Economics to Optimize Cloud Spend & Improve Margins ft. Kevin Mueller, Presidio | Ep #67
Are you actually measuring the value of your cloud spend or just tracking the cost? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with Kevin Mueller, Principal Archi...
Dashboards Don't Save Money, Action Does ft. Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu, Leaner Cloud | Ep # 66
Why do cloud costs stay high even after you build all the right dashboards? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu, Founder a...
