Journey to FinOps: War stories, wins, and challenges by Sara Gadallah of Atlassian

Sara Gadallah (Atlassian, Australia) shared her journey as a FinOps Practitioner and shared war stories learned along the way at the Australian tech unicorn. After the talks, our community attendees asked a number of questions to our staff and presenters.
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[@navedrizv]

Did you enroll for any online training course and pursue certifications, which one if any?

[@nandii0730]

Hi Sara, where can I find your training? Im really interested in

[@sarawaguihgadallah4868]

Hi Nandi, it's an internal training within Atlassian, not accessible to employees outside Atlassian unfortunately

[@devashreejavalkar8994]

What was your earlier work experience before joining in FinOps?
Can a complete begginer learn it?

[@saragadallah7285]

I was in the Data & Analytics space for 11 years prior to this. Learning FinOps was not hard, especially I got in when it wasn't very popular. Reading the FinOps book, and engaging with the FinOps foundation community on Slack definitely helped