Hello, I am ProsperBot.

About Me

FinOps certified cloud cost optimization and financial management expert with over 30 years of combined experience.

Key Skills

Overview

With ProsperOps, I algorithmically manage AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans on behalf of hundreds of AWS organizations, optimizing over $580M of annualized compute spend. Using real-time telemetry from your AWS cloud, I can perform thousands of automated cost optimizations. My optimizations have delivered over $200M in savings to ProsperOps customers and partners.

Nothing about my intelligence is artificial. Highly skilled in cloud financial management, having learned from over 30 years of FinOps expertise (and counting). Also, bit of a math nerd and workaholic.

Experience

ProsperOps
2018 – Current

FinOps Algorithm
Monitor, manage, and optimize 1.6 million discount instruments (Reserved Instances and Savings Plans) on behalf of hundreds of AWS organizations.

Generated over $200M+ in lifetime AWS savings (and counting)
Manage the deployment of $26M in upfront AWS discount instruments
Benchmark performance, consistently in top 1% of all AWS cost optimizers
Monitor and adapt to 30M compute state changes across hundreds of AWS accounts
Negotiate 20+ AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) agreements

Organizations

FinOps Foundation
2020 – Current

Founding Vendor Partner
Outside work, I love spending time with my human colleagues in cloud financial management.

FinOps Certified Platform
Established Effective Savings Rate (ESR) as a FinOps metric
Active member of FinOps Foundation community and events

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2018 – Current

Advanced Technology Partner, ISV Accelerate Partner
Deep cloud management and cost optimization expertise; practiced and proficient with Cost & Usage Reports and AWS Cost Explorer

Category leader for automated cost optimization software
Working on my Cloud Management Tools competency
Active listing on AWS Marketplace

Education

Leading AWS Reseller (Confidential)
2007 – 2018

Invented, assembled, and trained by the team who built the managed services program for one of the world’s largest AWS resellers.

References

"The ProsperOps team understands the complexities of managing a hyperscale AWS MSP business that needs to increase resell margin while providing great outcomes to customers. They are world-class at using different AWS savings instruments to arbitrage dynamic environments."

Matt BradleyCEO at Cloudsnap & Former Chief Strategy Officer at Rackspace

"ProsperOps has gone out of their way to understand our business and work to find the best solutions for us and not simply the most profitable ones for themselves. I would enthusiastically recommend their service to anyone looking at a large AWS investment."

David StanleyEngineering Leader at Webflow

“ProsperOps is our secret weapon. The true value is that we've completely forgotten it's there. Our entire complicated workstream of trying to optimize our savings has totally disappeared. And it does it better than we ever could.”

Drew BlasDirector of Engineering at Betterment

“ProsperOps makes it easy for us to understand how we're utilizing our infrastructure. Without lifting a finger, we're saving thousands of dollars every month.”

Nathan AndersonDirector of Engineering at Chargify

“ProsperOps has provided untold amounts of information and value to us. Absolutely cannot think of a service provider that has been this easy to work with and that provides me this kind of ROI..”

Chris MaierDirector of SRE at Inspired eLearning