Alex Cui
@alexcui
FinOps professional/alibaba cloud/Cloud operation and maintenance expert
What I'm looking for
At Botanee Group, I lead public-cloud infrastructure planning, operations, and FinOps governance across 20+ business projects. I reduced annual cloud spend from approximately RMB 18 million to RMB 11 million and delivered RMB 6.824 million in cumulative realized savings.
Previously, at Shanghai Azula Network Technology Co., Ltd., I led a migration of 120 servers and TB-scale databases from Tencent Cloud to AWS with near-zero user disruption. I’m open to remote opportunities in FinOps, cloud financial management, cloud cost optimization, and cloud governance.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Cloud Operations Expert
Botanee Group
Aug 2023 - Present (3 years 3 months)
Lead public-cloud infrastructure planning, operations, and FinOps governance for 20+ business projects, 1,000+ cloud resources, and annual cloud spend above RMB 10 million; coordinate a seven-person operations team.
• Own budgeting, project and shared-cost allocation, usage analysis, rightsizing, pricing-model optimization, multi-account governance, and vendor coordination.
• Reduced annual cloud
Cloud Operations Supervisor
Shanghai Azula Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Jun 2019 - Jul 2023 (4 years 1 month)
Managed global mobile gaming infrastructure across Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, AWS, and Google Cloud.
• Defined standards for cloud architecture, networking, security, disaster recovery, vendor management, and infrastructure procurement.
• Reduced server costs by approximately 50% through configuration changes, architecture optimization, and supplier negotiations.
• Led a Tencent Cloud-to-AWS mi
Monitoring and Operations Engineer
恺英网络
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019 (1 year 6 months)
• Monitored hosts, networks, and databases using Zabbix, Prometheus, and Kibana; triaged alerts and coordinated incident resolution.
• Supported cloud inspections, application releases, and configuration maintenance.
• Built operating procedures, incident case libraries, and runbooks while continuously improving monitoring and response workflows.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Donghua University
Master of Engineering - MEng, MEM
2025 - 2028
Grade: A
Activities and societies: Cloud Cost Optimization Saa S Entrepreneurship Practice for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Research direction: Research on construction and optimization methods of enterprise-level cloud cost governance system based on Fin Ops
Huazhong Agricultural University
Bachelor, Information Management and Information Systems
2013 - 2017
Grade: B
Activities and societies: null
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