Flying High with FinOps: How United Airlines is Scaling Cloud Cost Efficiency with Harness

What happens when FinOps goes beyond dashboards and dives into real-time, developer-led action? This session explores how United Airlines embedded FinOps into the software delivery lifecycle—turning cost awareness, optimization, and governance into everyday engineering practice. Drawing from Harness’s recent FinOps in Focus report, we’ll break down how teams can act faster, drive accountability, and scale FinOps maturity through AI-powered automation, real-time insights, and close collaboration between engineering and FinOps teams. Walk away with practical strategies and a proven blueprint for bringing FinOps to where decisions actually translate into action—at the edge.

Speaker

Ravitej Yadalam

Sr. Director, Product Management at Harness