Prachi Mishra

• Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms.
• Forecasting,Budgeting,Tagging, RI's & Saving Plans,storage optimization,wastage elimination,dashboarding, multi cloud service comparison are some of the key activities performed for many customers depending on maturity and priorities of customer's cloud environment.
• Reported to CIO's and CFO's for different customers and primarily handled leadership calls every week for showcasing strategies,framework and improvement of the project.
• Collaborated with engineering, finance, and product teams to drive cost-efficient cloud usage.
• Implement and lead cost allocation and chargeback mechanisms for multi-cloud environments
• Helped in increasing awareness of cloud costs through sophisticated reporting and dashboards via Cloud Native tools and FinOps tools for multiple customers.
• Promoted a cost-conscious culture by providing education on FinOps principles and standard methodologies to teams.
• Managed vendor relationships, negotiating contracts and service level agreements and helped in relationship building with Cloud customers.
• Analyzed existing cloud utilization to pinpoint optimization opportunities, eliminate inefficiencies, and ensured resources are allocated effectively.
• Document and communicated the savings achieved through cloud optimization initiatives, providing valuable insights to stakeholders.
• Collaborated with engineering and product teams to establish cloud usage standards and guidelines that foster sustainable spending.
• Continuously monitored and refined cloud cost management practices, seeking opportunities for automation and efficiency.
• Acted as a hands-on authority in FinOps best practices, mentoring and guided teams to cultivate a culture of cost awareness.

• Monitor cloud consumption in detail and assist in the reporting of cloud consumption and utilization to business owners.
• Conduct audits and analysis of cloud optimization efforts and create recommendations for rightsizing and cloud resource reservations.
• Aid in the forecasting of cloud consumption for new projects migrating or being developed in various cloud environments.
• Conduct variance analysis of cloud consumption to forecasted consumption, highlighting deviations and making budget recommendations as required.
• Aid in the development of Cloud FinOps policy and guidelines within the business.

• Team Lead in Accenture Strategy unit leading FinOps for clients majorly hosted on AWS and Azure
• Handled HSBC account for modeling strategic Benefit Financial Framework for migration from On-Premises to AWS/AZURE/GCP and Alibaba Cloud
• Helped HSBC in finalizing the KPI/Metric to measure the Cloud adoption benefits
• Designed Operating Model for HSBC
• Preparing Case studies on different scenarios for showcasing Benefits of FinOps before and after the cloud migration

• Worked in Cloud Adoption Office for the Cloud FinOps area, which is majorly for the adoption of improved Cloud FinOps processes and tools across platforms
• Provide information and insights into customer accounts and trusted advisor, azure advisor etc
• Experience with capacity forecasting, cloud cost optimization techniques, financial reporting, and workflow management in a large service operations environment
• Continuously engaging with teams to ensure all agreed recommendations are applied & best practices followed (Tagging, Right-sizing, Cost/Usage monitoring, Security standards, etc.)
• Vanguard with the Customer in getting the SaaS based CCM Tool implemented within HCL which majorly focused on bringing all the Cloud Service providers (AWS, Azure & GCP) under one umbrella to follow the end-to-end cloud cost management
• Technical expert in the Cloud Cost reporting area and working on the cost reduction recommendations by empowering the platforms about the benefits of application of these recommendations
• Spearheaded the cost optimization of KPI's across all platforms by partnering with the Cloud
• Core Ops, Cloud Engineering and the Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure & GCP) and accomplished a saving of Euro 3.8 million in 2020 and Euro 6.5 million in 2021
• Improved the Cloud cost allocation area by reducing the net risk to recovery rate from Euro 3.3M in 2020 to Euro 900k in 2021.

• Defining and implementing the FinOps KPIs, Policy & spend governance process and cloud spend tracking mechanism
• Performing regular analysis, creating decks, and presenting regular operational reviews to leadership team
• Maintaining relationship between enrolments, subscriptions, account & PO, ownership, and other relevant information about each of the accounts
• Tracking spends against different tags

• Managed Complex Production & non-prod environments for customers
• Worked on more than 4 projects as dedicated support based on different platforms at same time
• Database administration by monitoring the parameters like CPU utilization/Memory or disk utilization and space consumptions
• Cloud spend Governance on AWS primarily by monitoring the utilization parameters and suggesting recommendation and forecasting