Tatum Tummins, Senior Product Manager at Kion, is a Linux Foundation FinOps Certified Practitioner with over 6+ years of experience in multi-cloud management (AWS, Azure, GCP). Tatum has a strong background rooted in helping organizations build a culture of FinOps and optimize cloud costs within their organization. Prior to working for Kion, Tatum worked as Senior Manager for R&D Effectiveness at Change Healthcare where he led the company through a FinOps transition and was responsible for cloud cost optimization across a multi-cloud footprint.
Kion’s Tatum Tummins on how proactive FinOps automation helps DevOps and CloudOps teams cut waste, speed delivery and align spend with business goals.
Tatum Tummins, product manager for Finops at Kion, explains why any effort to optimize cloud spending needs to start with training, which is too often sorely lacking in an era where IT teams remain understaffed.
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