Equifax CTO, Data Fabric & Decision Science Technology, Kumar Menon has a 1-on-1 discussion with Unravel CEO and Co-founder Kunal Agarwal about how Equifax controls its Google Cloud data costs through deep observability.
The conversation, Managing FinOps at Equifax, was held at a recent Untap event in New York and hits upon top challenges, lessons learned, and insights on:
- Understanding how much data products and innovations really cost
- Enabling Engineering to be more cost-conscious
- Driving to a unit cost model for data products
- Managing operational pipelines alongside innovation pipelines
- Making FinOps a team sport among Engineering, Finance, Business, Operations, Governance and Product teams