Episodes 16
Avg. Duration 29m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (1)
Since Jul 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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About This Podcast

Wrangling cloud costs can be tricky — even for the most seasoned pros. In FinOps In Full Bloom, Thalia Elie interviews the brightest minds in FinOps about how they help their companies save money, innovate efficiently, and grow profitably.

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The Finance Leader Who Audited AI Spend — And Won

Jun 10, 2026 45m

This episode covers how Emily Allen used CloudZero data to analyze AI tool usage across her organization, identify model-level inefficiencies — specifically the over-reliance on Claude Opus for tasks…

Governing AI Spend Without Slowing Engineers Down

Jun 04, 2026 34m

This episode covers how Corin is approaching the new layer of complexity that AI introduces: governing access without blocking engineering velocity, building a centralized LLM API gateway (LiteLLM)…

The Telemetry Trap — and How to Avoid It

May 28, 2026 31m

Brian Mullins is the Head of Engineering at Diaceutics, a platform company improving patient identification in precision medicine. He brings a technically grounded, detective-minded approach to…

The Bridge to Clarity: Season 1 Reflections

Apr 27, 2026 30m

In this solo-hosted recap episode, Thalia Elie reflects on the key insights, transformations, and moments of inspiration from the first season of FinOps in Full Bloom. From CloudZero customers and…

From Naming to Normalizing: Driving FinOps Maturity at Scale

Mar 16, 2026 42m

What does it take to drive FinOps maturity across a multi-cloud, acquisition-heavy enterprise? In this episode of FinOps in Full Bloom, host Thalia Elie sits down with Greg Colletti, Senior Principal…

FinOps + AI: From Overwhelm to Operational Excellence

Mar 12, 2026 46m

In this episode of FinOps in Full Bloom, DebraAnn Braun, Chief Solutions and Advisory Officer at UbiMinds, shares how AI is transforming FinOps - when done right. She outlines how to measure…

The Next FinOps Frontier: AI, SaaS, and Sustainability

Mar 04, 2026 30m

Bindu Sharma, Senior Director of Cloud FinOps at Teradata and FinOps Foundation sustainability leader, joins FinOps in Full Bloom to share her transformation story - from manual reporting to…

From Chaos to Clarity: Building Trust Through Cloud Visibility

Mar 04, 2026 25m

When you make the invisible visible, everything changes. In this episode of FinOps in Full Bloom, host Thalia Elie sits down with cloud engineering veteran Sam Marx to unpack how visibility, trust,…

Tagging, Tenacity, and the Power of Persistence

Feb 26, 2026 23m

Director of IT Service Desk Operations and FinOps at Best Egg, Melissa Canfield, joins FinOps in Full Bloom to share how she helped lead a FinOps transformation rooted in visibility, tagging…

Engineering for Impact: Real-World FinOps at Scale

Feb 19, 2026 36m

What does it take to unlock massive cost savings - without compromising performance or compliance? In this episode, host Thalia Elie sits down with Tyler Lynch, Field CTO at IBM supporting HashiCorp,…

Cost-Aware Culture, Year-Over-Year Results

Feb 12, 2026 28m

Balaji Narayanan shares how Clari’s FinOps practice became a cross-functional team effort where visibility, finance–engineering alignment, and a culture of shared accountability create the energy to…

Follow the Value: What Most FinOps Programs Miss

Dec 09, 2025 30m

If you've implemented all the "right" FinOps practices and costs are still climbing, this episode is for you. Host Thalia Elie welcomes Erik Norman — CEO of Caligo and self-proclaimed “FinOps…

Crawl, Walk, Run: A FinOps Leader’s Formula for Value

Dec 03, 2025 29m

How do you go from zero to FinOps maturity without losing focus—or momentum? In this episode, host Thalia Elie is joined by Anderson Oliveira, FinOps Account Manager at CloudZero and longtime FinOps…

From Zero to Value: Inside the Mind of Fred FinOps

Sep 09, 2025 27m

What does it really take to build a scalable, impactful FinOps practice from the inside out? In this episode of FinOps in Full Bloom, host Thalia Elie is joined by Larry Advey, aka Fred FinOps,…

Metrics On Metrics: From Engineering Curiosity To Cloud Cost Control

Aug 27, 2025 24m

How do you reduce cloud spend by 50% without compromising availability or velocity? In this episode of FinOps in Full Bloom, host Thalia Elie speaks with Anthony Leung, VP of Engineering Platforms…

Foundational Fixes: How FinOps Starts With Listening And Labels

Jul 15, 2025 17m

What does real FinOps transformation look like at the ground level? In this episode, host Thalia Elie sits down with Kellie Righini, Associate Director of Business Systems and Applications at Aras,…

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How many episodes does FinOps In Full Bloom have?

FinOps In Full Bloom has published 16 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Business, Careers.

Is FinOps In Full Bloom still active?

FinOps In Full Bloom is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 29m.

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