The FinOps TAC oversees the FinOps definition, curriculum and technical vision of the FinOps Foundation (https://www.finops.org/about/).
The FinOps TAC is the technical governing body of the FinOps Foundation. TAC outputs are committed into an open source ecosystem to become standardized best practices. It admits and oversees all projects in the FinOps Foundation and has a mandate to facilitate driving neutral consensus for:
- What is the FinOps definition and capabilities for the industry?
- What is the open sourced curriculum of the FinOps trainings and certifications?
- What capabilities are needed to be “FinOps Certified Platform”?
- What qualifies a service provider to be “FinOps Certified Service Provider”?
- What KPIs are used to measure quality and success in Cloud Financial Management?
- What skills do teams need to hire into FinOps roles? What are example jobs descriptions?
- Managing the FinOps Landscape: https://github.com/finopsfoundation/finops-landscape
- approving new projects within the scope for FinOps set by the Governing Board (GB)
Currently the TAC has 14 voting member seats, comprised of Practitioner seats, GB appointed seats and Premier member seats.
- Kim Wier, Director Of Engineering at Target
- Noel Crowley, Director of Cloud FinOps at Fidelity Investments
- William Bryant, Internet Services Finance at Apple
- Vik Saluja, FinOps Director at Mastercard
- Mi1chael Flanakin, Principal Product Management Lead at Microsoft
- Sarah McMullin, Product Management Lead Cloud Billing at Google
- Rick Ochs, AWS Cloud Optimization Product Management Lead at Amazon Web Services
- Alee Whitman, Sr. Staff Product Engineer (Cloud) at The Walt Disney Company
- David Lambert, Cloud Efficiency Engineering Manager at Adobe
- Tom Cross, Cloud Infrastructure Technical Lead at Aer Lingus
- Lucas Paratore, Senior Product Line Manager at VMware
- Laura Szakmary, TBM Program Manager at Government-wide Policy, GSA
- Riley Jenkins, Sr. SRE/FinOps Architect at Domo
- Casey Doran, VP of Product at Apptio, an IBM Company
- Courtney Bormann, Sr Mgr FinOps & Cloud Governance at General Mills
As defined by the Technical Charter, The Technical Advisory Council (the "TAC") will have 11 members determined as follows:
- three individuals selected by vote of the Governing Board of the FinOps Foundation Fund, a directed fund of the Linux Foundation (the “Directed Fund”);
- up to three seats for Premier Members of the Directed Fund, with each Premier Member having the right to appoint a representative to the TAC until such point in time as there are more than three Premier Members of the Directed Fund, after which the Premier Members will nominate and elect among themselves three members of the TAC;
- three individuals that are FinOps Practitioners, as defined in the funding charter of the Directed Fund, selected or elected via a method to be determined by the Governing Board.
- the remaining number of seats to be filled in a manner as determined by the TAC.
We would like to acknowledge and thank our founding charter TAC members and their huge contributions to our community.
- Jason Fuller, Head of Cloud Management & Operations at HERE Technologies
- Mike Fuller, Principal Systems Engineer for FinOps at Atlassian
- Ally Anderson, Business Operations Manager at Neustar
- Alex Landis, Finance Manager/Business Partner – Platform Engineering at Autodesk
- Joseph Daly, Director Cloud Optimization Services at Nationwide
- Anders Hagman, Senior Manager, Technology Procurement at Spotify
- Sascha Curth, Head of Global Cloud Strategy at OLX/Naspers
- Jen Erickson, Senior Technology Project Manager at Bill.com
- Jordi Espasa Clofent, Technology Platform Business Partner at Letgo
- Jason Gorringe, Cloud and Virtual Services at Australia Post
- Leon Jiang, Cloud Engineer at National Australia Bank
- David Andrews, Senior IT Manager at Just Eat
- John Merritt, Sr. Director Enterprise Technology & Operations at Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Ashley Hromatko, FinOps Manager/Operations Management at Pearson PLC
- Youssef Ibrahim, Lead Analyst Cloud Governance at Nike
- Adriaan Bloem, Head of Digital Infrastructure at MBC
- Michele Alessandrini, Head of Cloud Adoption and Governance at Yoox Net-A-Porter Group
TBD
The TAC will be committed to working in the open on GitHub: https://github.com/finopsfoundation/tac
The TAC meets every other Tuesday at 1pm Pacific Time.
Attendance for voting TAC members is required, please send a proxy along with any updates if you are unable to join. Meetings are open to anyone.
TAC emailing list (open to all): https://groups.google.com/a/finops.org/g/tac
WGs are cross-functional groups of people producing best practices for the FinOps Framework or a specific FinOps challenge, and operate in 4-8 week sprints. SIGs represent ongoing industry, persona or focus groups that provide opportunities for practioner connection and exploration of best practices, sharing knowledge between those involved. SIGs can come from WGs to create content and conversly WGs can produce SIGs to create community.
The TAC will approved the formation of WGs & SIGs. A list of Working Groups and Special Interest Groups can be found here.