Ashley Foster

Cloud Financial Management Engineer @ Datacom

About

As a Cloud Financial Management Engineer at Datacom, I apply my skills and knowledge in DevOps and FinOps to help teams wrangle the data side of their cloud costs and performance. I have enterprise production experience in fullstack development and site reliability engineering, working with various cloud platforms and technologies. I am passionate about delivering value and efficiency through innovative and scalable solutions. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams, learning new tools and best practices, and contributing to local and wider dev communities. I hold certifications in AWS, CloudHealth, and FinOps, and I am always eager to expand my skills and expertise in the cloud domain.

Country

New Zealand

City

Auckland

Industry

Internet

Skill

Jenkins, Ansible, Scripting, Data Pipelines, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), ETL Tools, Data Engineering, Shell Scripting, Python (Programming Language), Cloud Platform Management, Cloud Billing, Engineering, Amazon Web Services (AWS), System Administration, Terraform, Infrastructure as code (IaC), Automation, DevOps, Web Development, E-commerce

Experience

Cloud Financial Management Engineer

Datacom

2022-2 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Auckland, New Zealand

- Refactored billing processes for AWS consumption and managed services: ~600% efficiency and ~40% accuracy increase to within ~3% delta of monthly accruals - Consolidated billing datasets for FY reporting - Standardised organisation and customer tenant core tooling MFA SSO for partner audit accreditation

Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Datacom

2021-9 - 2022-2 · 6 mos

Auckland, New Zealand

- Refactored Legacy CI/CD for Stuff NZ, enabling remote dev team to have isolated DEV/TEST environments - Standardised SIEM for CSOC IaC, enhancing resilience and response efficiency

Cloud Operations

Datacom

2021-7 - 2021-8 · 2 mos

Auckland, New Zealand

Internship component of AWS initiative. Enjoyed learning and working with the cloud ops and professional services teams on various run and optimise tasks. Including managing resources and landing zones with infrastructure as code, managing 3rd party performance monitoring and access with roles, billing tagging and optimisation, lambda triggers for cloudwatch/guardduty events, API scripting in Python, bash automations and documenting the business case for a small cloud app MVP.

Full Stack Developer

Freelance Web Development

2020-4 - 2021-9 · 1 yr 6 mos

Technical Account Manager

Moustache Republic

2019-10 - 2020-4 · 7 mos

Auckland, New Zealand

Cross-functional role facilitating project and managed services for the solution architecture and delivery of 🅱️espoke SaaS eCommerce implementations for key AU and NZ accounts including Vodafone NZ, JumpFlex, Johnny Bigg and Lyre’s Spirit Co.

JS Cadet

Dev Academy Aotearoa

2019-4 - 2019-7 · 4 mos

Auckland, New Zealand

Lead Hand

UNO Plasterers & Painters Ltd

2015-6 - 2019-3 · 3 yrs 10 mos

New Zealand

Junior Web Developer

Clanmouse

2013-10 - 2013-12 · 3 mos

Auckland, New Zealand

Assisted with maintenance and requests-for-changes from current clients websites and e-Commerce platforms.

CRM Consultant

YMCA North Inc

2012-7 - 2013-6 · 1 yr

Auckland, New Zealand

R&D Project for AUT. Project managed the design and development of a bespoke CRM solution for YMCA Camp Adair. Built utilising Drupal CMS to provide a web portal to collect booking enquiries with an admin dashboard for the client to easily manage the booking process with the use of custom reports, calendar views, and a browser-based interface for editing customer and booking information.