About Nicolas
I help organizations cut costs by up to 83% while building scalable FinOps governance.
I specialize in transforming cloud financial management from reactive cost control into strategic business enablement.
Recent impact: Recovered CHF 200k through automated billing verification across millions in monthly spend. Enabled CHF 300k+ in savings by providing senior management with actionable insights on optimization levers. Achieved 32-83% cost reductions through reservation optimization, right-sizing, and architectural improvements across healthcare, finance, sports, and telecom sectors.
I build the infrastructure that makes FinOps operational, not PowerPoint recommendations. From ETL pipelines aggregating multi-cloud costs to FOCUS-compliant reporting dashboards, I deliver solutions that finance, engineering, and leadership teams actually use.
Core capabilities:
FinOps governance & reporting: Chargeback/showback automation, FOCUS implementation, shadow IT discovery (CHF 10k+/month uncovered)
Cost optimization at scale: Managed 500+ commitments (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans) worth CHF 900k/year with automated coverage tracking
Billing verification: Automated invoice validation pipelines processing millions in monthly consumption
Multi-cloud analytics: FOCUS FinOps Dashboard, Power BI dashboards, tailored to relevant audiences
Azure & AWS optimization: Reservations, Savings Plans, Hybrid Benefits, VM scale sets, spot instances, Fabric/Synapse/ADF rationalization
Fluent in French, English, Italian, and Portuguese, I support complex, regulated cloud transformations across Europe
Ready to unlock your cloud ROI? Let's discuss how FinOps can turn your cloud costs into a competitive advantage.
Italian
Native or bilingual
Portuguese
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Zurich (up to 50km), Geneva (up to 20km), Lausanne (up to 20km), Bern (up to 20km), Zug (up to 20km)
Experience
- nOpsAzure Commitment AutomationDecember 2025 - February 2026 (2 months)
- Built an AI-ready data layer for an automated Azure Commitment Management system on Databricks with Medallion architecture. Aggregating cross-tenant data with a multi-tenant app, fetching Azure Monitor Metrics to transform Daily FOCUS exports into hourly cost and usage data.
- Designed and tested a multi-tenant app architecture using the least-privileged RBAC roles for commitment management and optimization.
- Gunvor83% Azure Data Factory & IaaS Cost ReductionApril 2025 - June 2025 (2 months)
- Achieved 83% total data platform cost reduction (ADF + Synapse + Fabric) through pipeline rationalization, re-architecting ETL workflows with consolidated Python-based jobs to eliminate ADF activity execution overhead, optimizing refresh intervals based on actual business requirements, instance right-sizing, and commitment optimization.
- Delivered IaaS optimization strategy, reducing cost by 35% through VM rightsizing, spot instance policies, and reserved instance optimization. Working with infrastructure, business and leadership teams to implement changes with zero downtime.
- Nova Marine Carrier58% Microsoft Fabric Cost OptimizationApril 2025 - June 2025 (2 months)
- In-depth audit of Microsoft Fabric-related expenses and identification of optimization levers.
- 58% cost reduction in one month by optimizing reservations and aligning resource provisioning with actual needs.
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Education
- Bachelors & Master of Science in Robotics & Machine LearningEcole Polytechnique Fédérale deBachelors & Master of Science in Robotics & Machine Learning