01 — tobiolabode.tech · Wales
Senior FinOps across Azure, AWS and GCP. I design the frameworks, the dashboards and the habits that turn a cloud bill into a decision — including the token economics of generative AI.
02 — Selected work
Dashboards, governance and the AWS practice before them. On a large screen, hover a card for the short version.
Showing 9 projects
Next · Azure & GCP
£16.7m tracked · 26.17% ESR
One view of executive cloud spend across subscriptions, services and commitment discounts. Effective cost set against realised savings — £8.35m recovered at 26.17% effective savings rate — down to resource group. Built in Power BI against Azure Cost Management and GCP Billing exports.
Next · Azure OpenAI
3.6bn tokens a month
Daily cost for Azure AI and ML services, with tokens and calls beside the bill. Department, environment and month filters so owners can see model economics as usage scales. Critical as generative AI workloads move from experiments to production spend.
Next · GCP
£1.45m year to date
Year-to-date GCP spend across billing accounts, with cost-to-discount ratios by project, environment and service. Built to show which committed use discounts are actually earning their keep — filterable by department, environment and service description.
Next · FinOps Hub
30-day rolling baseline · 15+ business units
Yesterday’s spend against a 30-day baseline, stacked by department. Drill from product to subscription, environment and resource group before a spike becomes a month-end story. Replaced the manual daily pack and cut reporting time by 80%.
Next & Taylor & Eyre
95% allocation accuracy
At Taylor & Eyre, tagging policies and service control policies lifted allocation accuracy to 95%. At Next, product tags and showback give shared platforms an owner instead of a communal bill.
Taylor & Eyre · AWS
25% less waste · 80% less manual reporting
Right-sizing, idle cleanup and savings plans, plus shutdown scripts that took about 30% out of non-production. A Python system on AWS APIs retired most of the hand-built reporting pack.
Open source · Azure
Beyond advisor-green
Tooling for the spend native advisors leave looking healthy: orphaned resources and quiet waste inside a complex Azure estate. Written to plug into a FinOps workflow, not replace it.
View on GitHubFinOps Foundation · June 2026
Named contributor · FinOps Foundation
Named in the acknowledgments of the FinOps Foundation's practical scenarios paper for data-cloud cost governance. Scenarios cover idle spend, tagging, query-level attribution, anomaly response, and chargeback — written for Snowflake, designed to carry to Databricks, Fabric, BigQuery, and Redshift.
Read on FinOps.orgMedium · 2026
FOCUS, AI, unit cost
Why multi-cloud cost is a data problem — normalisation, the FOCUS spec, and the unit economics of generative AI — from someone who learned ledgers before billing exports.
Read on Medium03 — About
A green advisor is not the same thing as a clean bill.
Based in Wales, United Kingdom.
I work between a cloud bill and the people who can change it. At Next that has meant standing up FinOps from a blank page: policy, product tagging, showback, and a hub of monthly, daily and AI cost views that domain managers actually open.
Before that, at Taylor & Eyre, the estate was AWS. Cloud waste came down by a quarter. A Python reporting system retired most of the manual pack. Tagging and service control policies made allocation something finance could trust.
The years before cloud were in banking — at FBNQuest, leading a team of six through equity trades, reconciliation, and MiFID II compliance at 99%+ accuracy. The discipline of a figure that has to survive audit. An MSc in Data Science at Cardiff is why I treat the bill as a dataset, not a spreadsheet that happens to be large. The same habit now covers generative AI: tokens, models, and who owns the cost. In 2026, named contributor to the FinOps Foundation working group on practical scenarios for data-cloud cost.
Oct 2025 — Present
Next Retail Limited
Senior FinOps Analyst
Azure & GCP. FinOps Hub, tagging, showback, and the practice built from a blank page.
Nov 2022 — Apr 2025
Taylor & Eyre Limited
FinOps Engineer
AWS. Waste, savings plans, tagging, SCPs, and the reporting that replaced the manual pack.
Feb 2019 — Sep 2022
FBNQuest Merchant Bank
Senior Transaction Analyst
Led a team of six through equity trades, reconciliation, and MiFID II compliance at 99%+ accuracy. The practice where a figure has to survive audit before it leaves the desk.
Education
MSc Data Science & Analytics
Cardiff University
B.Tech Management & Accounting
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
Membership
Operational Research Society
Candidate Associate · No. 65050
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tobijohnolabode@gmail.com