Summary
Rob Wagner is a Principal Cloud FinOps analyst with 11+ years of experience helping enterprises translate cloud consumption into predictable, optimized spend. He has driven measurable results—implementing processes that saved his company $300K+/month, delivering $1.2M in annual IaaS savings for Ford through Reserved Instances, and eliminating waste from non-business-hour infrastructure. A consultant-turned-practitioner, he combines hands-on cloud engineering in Azure and AWS with FinOps playbooks, forecasting models, chargeback/showback billing, and anomaly management to improve governance and forecasting accuracy. His background spans data center operations, outsourcing solution design, and leadership across HP, Ford, Apptio, and ISO New England, giving him a rare end-to-end view of cost, capacity and delivery. He holds FinOps Practitioner and cloud certifications and is known for accelerating time-to-value by aligning product capabilities with business use cases.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at DeVry Institute of Technology
English