Navigating the FinOps Waters: Take a Swim through Barracuda’s FinOps Journey

Dive in—the FinOps waters are fine!
At Barracuda, what started as a splash into cloud cost visibility turned into a full-on swim toward a smarter, more collaborative FinOps culture. From getting engineers in the driver’s seat to running quarterly hackathons that turned savings into sport, this session will take you on a candid (and occasionally wild) ride through their FinOps evolution.
We’ll share how Barracuda:

• Made cloud cost efficiency actually fun through friendly competition
• Turned engineers into FinOps champions with real ownership and automation
• Reworked outdated allocation models to reflect today’s reality
• Is gearing up for the next wave of FinOps maturity—think AI, ML, and predictive powe

Whether you’re treading water in your FinOps journey or ready to make waves, this session is packed with practical ideas, cultural insights, and a few good laughs to help you stay afloat—and thrive.

Speakers

Cody McDaniels

Sr. Director, Cloud Infrastructure at Barracuda

Sam Barbeau

Senior Solutions Value Advisor, FinOps at Flexera