Pathik Sharma

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About Pathik Sharma

Pathik works in Google Cloud Professional Services and leads Cost Optimization in the Cloud FinOps Practice. With the explosive adoption of FinOps in cloud technology, Pathik has worked with more than hundred cloud customers, partners and industry experts on designing and deploying cloud FinOps solutions - from standing up the governance function to incubating cost-conscious culture and implementing state of the art tooling. He enjoys learning from and contributing back to the open source community of FinOps Foundation by sharing real-world stories and leading best practices. Before Google, Pathik worked at Amazon serving as technical advisor for AWS customers and partners. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and a BS degree in Computer Engineering. To learn more about Cloud FinOps and Cost Optimization follow him on LinkedIn. Notable contributions:* Simplified FinOps using SketchNotes: bit.ly/finops-sketch-notes * Featured Speaker Google Cloud Next 2023: bit.ly/gcp-co-next23 FinOpsX 2023: bit.ly/gcp-finopsx23 Google Cloud IT Heroes Summit: bit.ly/gcp-summit-2023 Google Cloud Next 2022: bit.ly/gcp-co-next22 Google Cloud Next 2020: bit.ly/gcp-co-next20 FinOps Summit: https://bit.ly/gcp-f2-af * Featured Author Forbes - bit.ly/forbes-finops Fun FinOps Sketches - bit.ly/finops-sketches Financial Resilience on Cloud - bit.ly/gcp-finres-finops FinOps + GenAI - bit.ly/finops-genai Cost Optimization: bit.ly/gcp-co-whitepaper FinOps: bit.ly/gcp-finops-whitepaper bit.ly/gcp-finops-getting-started * Cloud Architect Architecture Framework: bit.ly/gcp-co-af Solutions: bit.ly/gcp-co-solutions * Podcast bit.ly/gcp-co-podcast (Google Cloud) bit.ly/cloudreach-finops (CloudReach) bit.ly/tdh-finops (ThatDigitalShow)