Mike Mcfarlane
FinOps Lead at 1st Central
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMike Mcfarlane is a FinOps and cloud engineering lead with 12 years of experience helping organisations turn cloud spend, security and operations into measurable business value. He has led FinOps strategy and delivery at Tesco Bank and 1st Central, delivering a 21% AWS cost reduction through tooling, governance, and cross-team upskilling while working closely with finance, architects and AWS account teams. His background spans DevSecOps and deep learning infrastructure, having built CI/CD pipelines and compliant deployments across data centres, AWS and Azure at iProov, and he’s ISO 27001 experienced. Known for “getting stuff done,” he combines systems engineering rigor with creative problem solving rooted in an earlier career as a founder and award‑winning landscape photographer. Comfortable at the intersection of technical detail and senior decision-making, he excels at cultural change, mentoring large engineering communities, and translating complex cost and security signals into actionable insights. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he brings a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach that pairs hands-on engineering with strategic FinOps leadership.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Mechatronics Engineering, MSc Mechatronics Engineering at Abertay University
Russian, French, English
Github Skills (20)
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software-design6
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security5
linux-kernel5
linux5
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devops4
inspec4
biometrics4
authentication3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikejmcfarlane/mikejmcfarlane.github.io
Sep 2020 - May 2022
Mike's tech blog
Contributions:8 PRs, 62 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 8 months
gatsbyreactnextjstypescript
mikejmcfarlane/TickleMeNAO
Nov 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:59 commits in 11 months
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