Mike Fuller is a seasoned cloud technology leader and current CTO at the FinOps Foundation, with 12+ years of hands-on experience designing secure, highly available, and cost-efficient AWS architectures from his seven-year tenure as a Principal Systems Engineer in Atlassian’s Cloud Center of Excellence. He blends deep operational expertise—backed by a Computer Science degree and nine AWS certifications—with practical FinOps authority as co-author of "Cloud FinOps" and a frequent presenter at AWS Re:Invent and Summits. Mike is also an active open-source contributor, improving AWS mocks in the widely used moto project and enhancing reliability and telemetry in niche projects like the Mission Pinball Framework. Known for translating governance into developer-friendly tooling, he focuses on real-time cloud financial management and pragmatic security practices that scale across large engineering organizations.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Secure Distributed Systems Software Development, Bachelor of Computer Science Secure Distributed Systems Software Development at University of Wollongong
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:39 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on implementing and fixing features for the RDS2 mock within the `moto` project. They developed mock functionality for RDS2, including the `create_db_instance` and `create_option_group` methods. Their contributions also involved addressing test failures and correcting JSON output related to engine versions, and they added features like describe and delete option group. The user also added more support for the modify and describe option group options, as well as adding support for read replicas.
Mission Pinball Framework: Open source software to run a real pinball machine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to the Mission Pinball Framework by addressing issues and implementing new features. They fixed a crash related to `termios.error`, and implemented the ability to set x, y, and z locations for switches. They also added a feature for JSON logging and enhanced the documentation of device mixins. The changes show a focus on core functionality and usability improvements within the pinball framework.
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Mike Fuller - Chief Technology Officer at FinOps Foundation