CTOs, IT Directors and platform leads at European scale-ups and SMBs whose Azure spend is growing faster than the business, with weak forecasting or a post-migration bill nobody owns.
I set up an operational FinOps model: real cost visibility, shared ownership between engineering and finance, continuous optimization. Not just reports: processes, accountability and concrete saving levers.
Cloud spend down 20-30% in the first months, reliable forecasting, per-team accountability, and a FinOps baseline the client can run on its own afterwards.
Dashboards and reporting by cost center, team and product. Make decisions with clear data, not at month end.
Budgets, guardrails and preventive alerts to avoid overruns and improve accountability across finance and engineering.
Rightsizing, reservation strategy and cleanup of unused resources to reduce waste without service impact.
Introduced tagging, showback and budget policies across multiple teams and subscriptions.
FinOps setup for a fast-growing scale-up: continuous monitoring and progressive optimization.
Unified spend governance across heterogeneous cloud environments with centralized reporting.
Cost control that finance and engineering in a Dutch organisation can both work with.
Showback per team and product in EUR, aligned with your finance team's monthly and quarterly cycle. The CFO and the engineering lead look at the same numbers.
Sustainability reporting is on the agenda of many Dutch organisations. Cost data and Microsoft's emissions data can be read side by side, so rightsizing decisions show both effects.
A familiar Amsterdam pattern: rapid growth, Azure spend growing faster than revenue, nobody owning the bill. We start with visibility and quick wins, then build the process.
When cloud costs grow faster than the business, when there's no clear ownership of the bill, or when the last invoice surprised the CFO. You don't need hundreds of workloads: you need a predictability or accountability problem.
Main focus is Azure, where I have certifications and direct experience. On multi-cloud scenarios I work on governance and unified reporting; for deep AWS or GCP optimization I collaborate with dedicated specialists.
In phases: an assessment to clean up visibility and tagging, immediate quick wins to generate ROI early, then governance and process (budgets, alerts, accountability), finally enablement of the internal team. We often start from a narrow domain, not from the whole estate.
Reliable cost visibility, three to five prioritized quick wins, a shared tagging strategy draft and a first concrete spend reduction. If no quick wins surface in the first 30 days, the engagement is poorly framed.
If cloud costs are growing faster than your roadmap, we can set up a concrete and measurable FinOps plan.
Based in Amsterdam. Easy to meet in person in NL or on video for EU clients.