Burning 25% of Our Cloud Budget. Three Clouds. Zero Visibility. I Built the Fix.

Three clouds. AWS, Azure, GCP. Each team managing their own billing. Nobody had a unified view. Money bleeding out quietly - 25% overspend that nobody noticed until I built a dashboard that made everyone uncomfortable. Building a FinOps platform from scratch - unified cost visibility, anomaly detection, automated rightsizing recommendations, and the conversation with leadership that started with "we need to talk about your cloud bill." What I found first: zombie resources running for months - instances nobody used but nobody dared turn off. Over-provisioned VMs burning money around the clock. Dev environments running on the same tier as production. And the worst part: no one was accountable. Cloud spend was everyone's problem and nobody's responsibility. When a team can see their own spend in isolation, "reasonable" is whatever they've normalized to. The platform: a multi-cloud cost aggregator pulling billing data from AWS, Azure, and GCP into a single dashboard. Machine learning anomaly detection catching unexpected spend spikes before they become budget disasters. Automated right-sizing based on actual utilization data, not what someone guessed six months ago. Team-level…