Nafis Ansari
Kitchener,ON
Summary
FinOps leader with a strong background in cloud financial management across major platforms. Achieved significant monthly infrastructure savings through strategic rightsizing and commitment planning while enhancing financial visibility with executive reporting dashboards. Proven success in driving cost accountability and governance across cross-functional teams.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud FinOps Lead - Cloud Center of Excellence
Definity Financial Corp.
Waterloo, Canada
05.2024 - Current
- Lead enterprise FinOps strategy across multi-cloud environments managing multi‑million dollar cloud spend.
- Delivered 2-5% monthly savings through rightsizing, commitment planning, and resource lifecycle optimization.
- Drove cross‑functional cost optimization initiatives with cloud engineering, finance, and platform teams.
- Implemented automated anomaly detection and budget alerting to enhance financial discipline across engineering teams.
- Designed executive‑level cost reporting dashboards providing visibility into cost drivers, risks, and savings opportunities.
- Established enterprise tagging and cost allocation standards improving showback accuracy.
Cloud Solutions Consultant
SHI International Inc.
Toronto, Canada
06.2022 - 05.2024
- Achieved 20–30% cloud savings across AWS and Azure through infrastructure optimization and commitment planning.
- Advised enterprise clients on FinOps strategy and cloud governance frameworks to enhance cost optimization programs.
- Built executive dashboards and cost reporting frameworks supporting financial planning and cloud investment decisions.
- Implemented governance controls with automated monitoring, budget alerts, and resource lifecycle policies to ensure compliance.
Project Lead – FinOps
CBC / Radio‑Canada
Toronto, Canada
05.2021 - 06.2022
- Led FinOps initiatives to align AWS cloud architecture with financial efficiency objectives, enhancing cost transparency.
- Identified cost optimization opportunities using AWS Cost Explorer achieving $30,000+ annual savings.
- Managed cross-functional team of engineers and architects to execute cloud optimization initiatives, driving collaborative solutions.
- Implemented cost allocation tagging to enable showback reporting across engineering teams, facilitating accountability in cloud expenditures.
Senior QA Automation Developer
CBC / Radio‑Canada
07.2020 - 05.2021
- Developed automation frameworks and CI pipelines to ensure consistent high-quality software delivery.
- Developed automated scripts to improve workflow efficiency across various departments.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements for automation projects.
- Implemented robust testing procedures to ensure software quality and reliability.
Lead QA Engineer
Extron Electronics
01.2015 - 02.2020
- Managed global team of 6 QA testers across US and Asia, optimizing productivity through refined testing processes.
- Developed automation framework utilizing Selenium WebDriver in Java and conducted unit testing with TestNG.
- Designed and executed comprehensive test plans for both software and hardware systems.
Education
Master of Science - IT Management
Campbellsville University
USA03-2020
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
California State University Long Beach
USA05-2015
Skills
FinOps Strategy & Governance: Cloud Financial Management, FinOps Roadmap Execution, Cost Governance Frameworks, Engineering Cost Accountability
Financial Planning: Budgeting, Forecasting, Variance Analysis, Unit Economics Modeling, ROI Measurement
Cloud Optimization: Rightsizing, Reserved Instances / Savings Plans, Storage Tiering, Logging Optimization, Resource Lifecycle Management, Kubernetes Optimization
Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
Tooling & Automation: CloudHealth (VMware), AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, BigQuery, Looker, Terraform (IaC), PowerBI, Python
Certification
• Certified FinOps Practitioner
• VMware CloudHealth Platform Administrator – Associate
• AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate, SysOps Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, Azure Administrator Associate
• GCP Certified Professional Cloud Architect
• Certified ScrumMaster
• VMware CloudHealth Platform Administrator – Associate
• AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate, SysOps Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, Azure Administrator Associate
• GCP Certified Professional Cloud Architect
• Certified ScrumMaster
Timeline
Cloud FinOps Lead - Cloud Center of Excellence
Definity Financial Corp.
05.2024 - Current
Cloud Solutions Consultant
SHI International Inc.
06.2022 - 05.2024
Project Lead – FinOps
CBC / Radio‑Canada
05.2021 - 06.2022
Senior QA Automation Developer
CBC / Radio‑Canada
07.2020 - 05.2021
Lead QA Engineer
Extron Electronics
01.2015 - 02.2020
Master of Science - IT Management
Campbellsville University
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
California State University Long Beach