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My name is Benjamin van der Maas and I write about FinOps for AI & Cloud. Specifically on how to understand, take apart and optimize everything that builds up the technology landscape of modern enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With nearly a decade of experience in FinOps in start-ups, scale-ups, global enterprises and everything in between, I’ve found more passion and excitement than I honestly expected. When some of that spills over into articles, I put them up here for everyone to read. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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