About the Authors

J.R. Storment is the Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation, a Linux Foundation program that boasts nearly 10,000 members worldwide and includes involvement from the majority of the world’s largest cloud spenders. He was formerly the cofounder of Cloudability, a pioneer in the cloud cost management space from 2011 to 2019, when it was acquired by Apptio and became their flagship product. Post acquisition he spent a year as VP of Product/Engineering and GM of Cloud for the Cloudability business unit, before leaving to pursue his passion of advancing the people who work in the FinOps field as a full-time employee of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. As of 2023, he’s 13 years into working closely with the largest cloud consumers in the world—from Apple to Spotify to BP to Nike to Uber to GE—helping them design strategies to optimize and analyze their cloud spend through technology, culture, and process. J.R. has spoken on the topics of FinOps at multiple AWS re:Invents and dozens of conferences across the US, APAC, UK, and EU. Born in Oregon and raised in Hawaii, J.R. has lived in San Francisco, Barcelona, and London and now resides back in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Jessica, and son, Oliver. He identifies as a father of twin boys, though Oliver’s brother Wiley passed away during the writing of the first edition of this book in 2019.

Mike Fuller is a principal engineer and has been working with Cloud and FinOps at Atlassian for over ten years. Since authoring the first edition of the Cloud FinOps book, Mike has formed a dedicated FinOps team within Atlassian, moving the roles and responsibilities out from the cloud center of excellence to form a dedicated team of data engineers, analysts, and FinOps practitioners. Mike’s team helps Atlassian get the most value out of the money it spends on cloud. As a principal engineer within Atlassian, Mike is also an architect on the Insights team working on strategies to optimize the way domain experts (Security, Compliance, FinOps, Reliability) interact with the engineers across Atlassian’s global workforce.

Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Wollongong and has completed nine AWS certifications. He has presented at multiple AWS re:Invent and AWS Summit events on topics that include AWS security and Cloud FinOps. Mike has served as a member of the FinOps Foundation Technical Advisory Council and is currently a member of its Governing Board. Over the years Mike has made many friends across the globe who operate as FinOps leaders within their own organizations. These connections have helped shape Mike’s thoughts on what it means to be successful at FinOps.

Mike lives on the south coast of Australia with his wife, Lesley, and two kids, Claire and Harrison. They split their family time between the beautiful beaches and rural landscapes that make Australia famous.