Flagship program · Informational pricing HKD 7,800

Pipeline Spend Audit Studio

A six-week studio for platform engineers and finance partners who need a durable way to interrogate DevOps spend — using a financial auditing app for cost governance, not spreadsheet archaeology alone.

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Team reviewing pipeline metrics on a shared display

Outcomes

What you leave with

  • A documented weekly audit cadence tied to your CI provider exports
  • A severity rubric for idle compute, orphaned storage, and mis-tagged namespaces
  • A joint language pack for engineering and finance stand-ups
  • One completed finding pack ready for your backlog grooming session

Modules

  • Week 1 — Export literacyConnect billing CSVs and API pulls to services that actually run your pipelines.
  • Week 2 — Idle runner forensicsQuantify warm pools, overnight schedules, and flaky retries that inflate minutes.
  • Week 3 — Artifact & registry driftAge out images and packages that no release still references.
  • Week 4 — Ephemeral environmentsDetect preview stacks that outlived their pull requests.
  • Week 5 — Governance ritualsWire alerts and ownership into your financial auditing app workflows.
  • Week 6 — Studio reviewPresent findings to peers; revise severity and remediation language.

Instructor

Portrait of instructor Amara Yeung

Amara Yeung

Former platform lead for a regional payments firm in Hong Kong. Amara built cost review rituals that paired SRE on-call with monthly finance closes, and now coaches cohorts on keeping those rituals humane and precise.

From learners

Studio notes

“Week 2’s idle runner worksheet caught a scheduled job we thought was disabled. The course does not cover Azure DevOps as deeply as GitHub Actions — we had to adapt a few labs.”

Ravi N. · Build engineer

★★★★☆

“Solid studio pace. The peer review in week 6 made our findings less dramatic and more believable.”

Client in logistics technology

FAQ

Do I need a FinOps title to join?

No. Most participants are platform or SRE leads who share ownership of the bill with finance. We teach the shared vocabulary rather than assuming it.

Which cloud providers are covered?

Labs use AWS and GCP sample exports. Azure material is thinner — that is a real limitation of the current studio materials, and we say so up front.

Is payment handled on this site?

No. Pricing here is informational. Enrollment is arranged through our Hong Kong contact desk after a short fit conversation.

What tools do we use in class?

Spreadsheet workbooks, sample CLI scripts, and walkthroughs of a financial auditing app configured for DevOps cost governance. You keep the templates after the cohort ends.