Professional Summary
Azure FinOps engineer with 12+ years in cloud infrastructure and financial governance — 5 years building Azure environments, 6+ years optimising them. Delivered £624K annualised savings for a UK water utility through architecture redesign and FinOps practice implementation. Built showback/chargeback frameworks and custom Power BI cost analytics for a European insurer governing 3,000+ Azure resources across multi-subscription environments. Deep understanding of Azure commercial constructs (EA/MCA/CSP licensing) gained through Microsoft-side consulting. Specialist in FinOps lifecycle execution: Inform → Optimize → Operate.
Key Achievements
£624K/yr
Cost Savings Delivered
Redesigned Azure architecture and governance for a UK water services organisation, achieving £52K/month sustained savings through policy optimisation, rightsizing, and chargeback implementation.
3,000+
Resources Governed
Led day-to-day FinOps operations across multiple international clients — European insurance, UK utilities — managing Azure Policy, RBAC, and Management Groups at scale.
CEO Recognised
Microsoft Recognition
Contributed to an application recognised by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during public keynotes — demonstrating production-grade solution delivery at platform-vendor quality.
FinOps Approach
Inform
Cost visibility via Power BI dashboards, Azure Cost Management APIs, tagging governance, allocation & showback/chargeback models
Optimize
Rightsizing, RI/Savings Plans coverage, policy enforcement, anomaly detection, architecture redesign for cost efficiency
Operate
Budgeting, forecasting, stakeholder reporting cadence, continuous governance via Azure Policy, GreenOps & sustainability metrics
Core Competencies
FinOps & Governance
- Azure Cost Management & Billing
- Budgeting & ForecastingAnomaly detection
- Reserved Instances & Savings PlansAzure commitment optimisation
- Showback, Chargeback & Allocation
- Tagging Governance & Azure Policy
- Unit EconomicsCost per workload
- FinOps LifecycleInform → Optimize → Operate
- EA / MCA / CSPLicensing constructs
- GreenOps & Carbon Optimization
Azure Infrastructure
- IaaS & PaaSAdministration
- Azure SQLSingle DB, Elastic Pools, Geo-Rep
- VMs, Storage, Networking & Backups
- Azure Policy, RBAC & Management Groups
- AKSCost allocation & Container FinOps
- High Availability & DR Architecture
- Cloud Migration & Modernization
- Azure DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines
Analytics & Automation
- Power BICost dashboards & reporting
- Azure Cost APIs & KQLKusto Query
- ARM Templates, Bicep & TerraformInfrastructure as Code
- PowerShell & PythonScripting
- Azure Data Factory & MySQL
- PowerApps & Power Automate
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM & SharePoint
- On-Premises to Cloud Data Migration
Professional Experience
Infosys Limited
Senior FinOps Engineer & Cloud Consultant
European Insurance Client — Cloud Financial Governance FinOps Practice Build
- Governed Azure cloud spend for a European insurance organisation, establishing FinOps practices across multi-subscription environments with significant annual cloud spend under management
- Designed and deployed custom Power BI dashboards consuming Azure Cost Management APIs, delivering real-time cost visibility, anomaly detection, and trend analysis to engineering, finance, and leadership stakeholders
- Implemented showback/chargeback models with allocation based on tagging, labels, and custom dimensions — achieving full spend transparency and accountability across business units
- Established budgeting, forecasting, and alerting frameworks with monthly forecast cycles, enabling proactive cost control and early anomaly detection
- Executed rightsizing initiatives across compute, storage, backup, and networking — reducing waste through utilization analysis and resource optimisation recommendations
- Managed Reserved Instance portfolio and Azure Savings Plans, maintaining high coverage and utilization rates through continuous commitment optimisation
- Enforced tagging compliance via Azure Policy, improving resource attribution from baseline to high compliance across all subscriptions
UK Water Services Client — Cloud Cost Transformation £624K/yr savings
- Redesigned Azure architecture and governance policies, optimising cloud footprint to deliver £52K/month (£624K annualised) in cost savings
- Implemented chargeback mechanisms attributing costs to individual projects, driving cost accountability across engineering teams
- Conducted cloud infrastructure assessment, identifying and eliminating over-provisioned, idle, and orphaned resources through policy optimisation and resource rightsizing
- Aligned solution design with cost-efficient architecture patterns, ensuring new workloads were provisioned with optimal pricing models from inception
Cross-Client FinOps Operations 3,000+ Resources
- Led day-to-day cloud operations across multiple international clients, governing 3,000+ Azure infrastructure resources
- Managed Azure Policy, RBAC, and Management Groups ensuring governance compliance across multi-subscription environments
- Supported cloud migration projects, designing cost-efficient target architectures and recommending optimal pricing models for migrated workloads
- Partnered with engineering, finance, and leadership teams to align cloud investment with business objectives through regular cost review cadences
PALS Global Solutions / Microsoft India
Cloud Infrastructure Consultant & Azure Technical Specialist
Microsoft India — External Cloud Technical Consultant 2016–2019
- Seconded to Microsoft India as external consultant through PALS partnership, demonstrating Azure capabilities and guiding SME customers through cloud adoption
- Developed deep understanding of Azure pricing models, EA/MCA licensing, and commercial constructs from the vendor side — insight that now informs every cost optimisation decision
- Presented interactive Power BI dashboards for cost visibility, enabling customers to visualise and plan cloud investments before migration
- Advised customers on budgeting strategies, right-sizing resource selection, and commitment model options to prevent over-provisioning from day one
- Enabled Azure DevOps practices and PaaS adoption, helping customers reduce infrastructure costs through modern service models
PALS Global Solutions — Cloud Infrastructure & Data Engineering
- Provisioned and managed Azure IaaS/PaaS environments, designing high availability and DR architectures with Availability Zones and redundancy strategies
- Designed and administered Azure SQL PaaS (Single Database, Elastic Pools, Geo-Replication) with automated scale-up/scale-down scripting for optimal resource utilization and cost efficiency
- Led on-premises to Azure SQL migrations with performance, security, and cost optimisation — building database cost expertise that later informed FinOps governance
- Built end-to-end Power BI dashboards for global clients and Government of India organisations
- Developed and deployed Azure AI services with predictive models for agriculture and healthcare domains
- Contributed to an application recognised by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during public keynotes
Professional References
Sai Krishna transformed how we understand our Azure spend. The dashboards he built gave us visibility we never had before, and the chargeback model he implemented drove real accountability across teams.
His ability to redesign our Azure architecture while simultaneously building the governance framework was exactly what we needed. The £52K/month savings spoke for themselves.
Certifications
FinOps Certified Practitioner
FinOps Foundation
⏳ In Progress — Est. Q3 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator
Microsoft
Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
Microsoft Specialist
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Microsoft
Education
Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science & Engineering
Anna University, Chennai, India
2011