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 manager Chitra Jadhav to explore what it truly takes to build a FinOps practice that lasts not just one that generates a list of recommendations nobody acts on.
Drawing on eight years of building FinOps programs from the ground up across six or more organizations, Chitra explains how governance, culture, and cross functional collaboration are the real foundations of cloud cost optimization and why FinOps is only as powerful as the trust and authority an organization is willing to give it.
From Architecture Review Boards to Production Readiness Reviews, this conversation unpacks how FinOps can embed itself into the engineering lifecycle before waste ever happens, and why the shift to AI spend makes getting those basics right more urgent than ever.
Here’s what we talked about:
Why organizational recognition and governance are the prerequisites for any FinOps program to succeed
How to assess FinOps maturity using the FinOps Foundation framework as a starting point
Why FinOps is a team sport and how to engage finance, engineering, procurement, and application teams
What ARBs and Production Readiness Reviews are and how FinOps earns a seat at the table
How to approach optimization when native cloud provider recommendations run dry
The importance of the FinOps champion model when working across large engineering organizations
"Instead of paying that money and incurring that waste, you are taking some steps proactively by making sure that you are present at these discussions." - Chitra Jadhav
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In this episode of FinOps in Action, Matan Ben-Ishay draws on experience spanning EY cloud consulting to FP&A engineering at Credit Karma to argue that misaligned incentives, not technical complexity, are FinOps practitioners’ biggest obstacle. He breaks down why giving engineers public credit for cost optimization is the key to driving org wide adoption, how three year commitment forecasting with capacity planning and finance creates a true 360 degree view of infrastructure decisions, and why governance best practices must be embedded from day one, because the engineer who skips retention policies today becomes the manager who doesn’t care about them tomorrow.