James Pelton is a serial entrepreneur, YouTube creator with 83,000+ subscribers, and Senior DevRel at Zencoder — an AI engineering platform. He founded and exited a mobile SMS marketing company, then…
Joan "Coach J" Nelson is the founder and CEO of Beyond Digital Branding Solutions, a former global HR leader who turned a 2024 layoff into a six-figure AI consulting business in under two years. Her…
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…
Ebony Sykes is the founder of InsurSuccess, a firm helping independent Medicare insurance agents build financial data sovereignty and operational efficiency in an AI-enabled market. Her core argument…
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…
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) to…
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 FinOps…
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…
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…
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…
