Varun Gupta

About Varun Gupta

Accomplished Technical Evangelist with 19+ years of distinguished performance in Cloud Financial Governance, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure management, Application & Customer Support. Ambitious and Self-Motivated Azure Cloud Service Delivery, managing $30+ million project consist of 250+ team members and possessing a strong commitment to team environment dynamics with an ability to contribute expertise and follow leadership directives.• Heading Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) & Governance team with $800MM+ Spent in 5 years• Proven record of managing infrastructure Operations and Cloud Engineering team.• Managing $30MM+ Project through best practices and optimized execution.• Maintaining balance between delivery risks and P/L.• Managing an ever changing, Cross-functional, 250+ members team by setting up their growth path. • Implemented customer Cloud to different geographies and operation readiness and incubated multiple operation projects.• Large stakeholder and customer management skill with global footprints.• Project risk management and creative hiring practice including offshore, near-shore and remote team.• Develop organizational-level strategy towards meeting customer goals and aligned staffing models. • Designed event management process for application to align with business goals. • Driving Pre-sales activities like Estimation, Automation and innovative transformation solutions for multiple winning RFPs and Proposals. Defining SOW clauses to establish better governance.

Experience

1. Associate Director - Cloud Financial Management & Budgeting (Cloud Finops)

   PepsiCo

   Nov 2021 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Heading Cloud Financial (FinOps) Management team with $600MM+ Spent in 5 years. Setting up cloud financial management team & strategy to drive optimize cloud spend. Managing entire cloud spend and budgeting. Expertise in vender selection and onboarding tools like Flexera to manage multiple cloud spend. Enabling multiple teams by setting up cost and sustainability dashboards. Envisioning & implementing multi-level cost transparency by building TCO dashboards by integrating AKS (KubeCost) to Flexera. Helping internal business teams to adopt cloud infrastructure and assessments. Assessing vendor capabilities and managing vendor team, responsible for cloud service provisioning and infrastructure availability. Providing strategic guidance and shareholder management.

Education

• Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

  PGDBA Finance, Finance and Financial Management Services

  2008 — 2010

• Guru Jambheshwar University

  Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Application

  2006

Skills

• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Windows Communication Foundation (Wcf)
• Software Development
• Soa
• Software Project Management
• Iis
• Web Services
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Sql Azure
• Windows Azure
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Xml
• Javascript
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Microsoft Azure
• Wcf