Michael Flanakin

📋 Biography

Michael Flanakin is the founder of Allyte, creator of FinOpsHubs.com, a cloud management service that helps organizations optimize and scale cloud and AI solutions. Michael's background spans product and engineering leadership across non-profit, US government, and leading tech firms, like Microsoft and Salesforce. He is a maintainer of the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) project. While at Microsoft, he led cross-company FinOps efforts and founded the FinOps toolkit, the open-source collection of tools and guidance for adopting FinOps on Microsoft Cloud, including FinOps hubs. He remains on the toolkit’s governing board and contributes code, documentation, and reviews.