AWS FINOPS ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING
Mission FinOps helps organizations with complex AWS environments investigate cloud cost, build trusted cost and usage data foundations, and bring FinOps into architecture and engineering decisions.
AWS cost is often where a technical change becomes visible. We follow it backwards—through the data, the architecture, and the decisions that created the spend.
Former AWS · Independent · Least-privilege access · Mission, BC
Investigate AWS cost movements, usage changes, ownership gaps, and technical context. Produce evidence-backed findings with recommended architecture or operational changes.
Build reliable AWS cost and usage pipelines using CUR 2.0, FOCUS, account metadata, tags, and business context. Connect cloud cost data to the finance, BI, and reporting systems your organization trusts.
Bring cost into architecture reviews, engineering workflows, and infrastructure decisions. Help teams understand the financial consequences of technical decisions before those decisions become monthly spend.
Provide ongoing AWS and FinOps leadership across cloud, engineering, finance, and executive teams. Support architecture decisions, commitment strategy, reporting design, and operating-model development.
Investigations produce a written AWS Cost Investigation Report with findings, supporting evidence, contradicting evidence, likely ownership, and recommended next steps.
The sample demonstrates one type of engagement. Mission FinOps also builds data foundations, engineering practices, and broader FinOps capability.
I started as a network engineer, then spent six years at AWS working with enterprise cloud customers.
Cost appeared everywhere: architecture, migrations, networks, commitments, security, and operations.
That experience shaped Mission FinOps. Cloud cost cannot always be understood from billing dimensions alone. Networking explains data transfer. Scaling and resiliency affect unit economics. Account structure affects ownership and governance.
Mission FinOps combines FinOps with AWS architecture, networking, security, and enterprise operating experience.
Open-source tooling
Kulshan is the open-source AWS cost evidence CLI built by Mission FinOps. It runs locally, uses read-only AWS access, and helps collect repeatable evidence from AWS cost and usage data.
Kulshan is read-only by construction. The published IAM policy contains zero write actions.
The tool structures the evidence. Mission FinOps designs and implements the capability around it.
You don't need to know which service category it belongs to. Describe what's not working—your cost data, ownership, reporting, architecture decisions, or operating model. We'll determine whether the right next step is an investigation, a defined implementation, or ongoing advisory support.