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Sam Greene

Evaluator · DISC type csd
Founding Evangelist at FinOps Fanatics
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Sam Greene is the Founding Evangelist for FinOps Fanatics, a community focused on cloud cost management. A former DevOps engineer and AWS Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, he combines deep technical expertise with financial acumen to build smarter cloud spending habits. He is a graduate of the University of California, Davis.

Sam is passionate about building communities and solving the "people problem" behind cloud cost overruns. He actively develops and publishes tactical guides, frameworks, and even memes to make FinOps best practices accessible. He channels his experience into advising organizations and shaping the voice of FinOps Fanatics.

He believes the most expensive cloud decision is made before a single resource is even provisioned.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Founding Evangelist
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Sam shows up

Quality Focused
Fast But Analytical
Thorough Evaluator

They are not very likely to become strong advocates of your product or service They have a unique set of diverse traits where they are decisive and methodical but can sometimes be extra cautious and skeptical They focus on the results, but can still be quite procedural and analytical about how to get there

Priorities

Topics Sam cares about

FinOps Strategy
His career is dedicated to managing cloud costs, advising organizations on savings plans and aligning engineering teams with finance.
Kubernetes Optimization
He is a strong advocate for using Spot instances with Kubernetes, believing it is a major, often missed, opportunity for significant cost savings.
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Career

Work history

9-2021
Founding Evangelist
FinOps Fanatics
4-2018 - 8-2021
Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
6-2014 - 3-2018
Senior DevOps Engineer → Infrastructure Program Manager
ARCLYTICS
9-2011 - 5-2014
Cloud Systems Engineer
Freelance
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
9-2008 - 5-2011
Bachelor of Science - BS
University of California, Davis
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

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