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Abuthahir Abdullah

@abuthahirabdullah

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FinOps Lead and Multi‑Cloud strategist driving measurable cloud cost savings.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can lead FinOps and multi‑cloud cost strategy, collaborate with finance and engineering, implement governance and deliver measurable savings while mentoring teams.

I am a FinOps Lead and Multi-Cloud strategist with 14+ years in IT, including over six years in cloud strategy and five years focused on FinOps. I lead teams to implement governance, FinOps-as-Code, budgeting, forecasting and cost allocation to enable data-driven cloud decisions.

I have delivered multi-cloud architecture and operations across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI, led FinOps initiatives that saved $3.5M+ and implemented cost optimization programs that produced $1.5M savings at prior employers. I build automated dashboards and analytics using Power BI, native cloud tools and have applied Terraform/Ansible for infrastructure automation.

My approach blends technical delivery, financial modeling and stakeholder engagement — mentoring teams, enforcing tagging and guardrails, and collaborating with finance and engineering to improve transparency, governance and operational excellence.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Principal Cloud Architect

Deltek

Apr 2024 - Aug 2025 (1 year 4 months)

Led FinOps initiatives across multi-cloud environments, delivering $3.5M+ in cost savings through optimization, budgeting, forecasting, and FinOps-as-Code and improving cloud spend transparency via automated dashboards.

FinOps Cloud Optimization AWS Azure GCP)Power BI Terraform Forecasting

Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

IBM India Private Limited

Apr 2018 - Apr 2021 (3 years)

Delivered hybrid cloud infrastructure with automation using Terraform and Ansible, achieving 20% savings and implementing CI/CD pipelines with DevSecOps and ITIL practices.

Terraform Ansible Docker Kubernetes CI CD DevSecOps AWS Azure

IT Lead Technician

Wood

Dec 2015 - Apr 2018 (2 years 4 months)

Delivered 100% SLA compliance and infrastructure upgrades for Linux/Windows environments, automated batch jobs and supported TCO analysis for cloud migrations.