Martin Paul

Martin Paul has over 25 years of work experience in various roles related to cloud computing, infrastructure support, and system administration. Martin is currently working as a Sr. Lead, AWS FinOps Analyst at MyFitnessPal since December 2020. Prior to this, they worked at Under Armour as a Sr. Lead, AWS FinOps Analyst from November 2020 to December 2020.

From 2017 to 2020, Martin worked at Cloudability Apptio as a Sr. Technical Account Manager and FinOps Consultant. In this role, they enabled enterprise customers to manage and optimize a total of $450M annual public cloud spend by educating and guiding development teams, finance officers, and executives on FinOps methodologies.

Before that, from 2013 to 2017, Martin was a Technologist - Cloud / Hosting Solution Architect at Pitney Bowes. Martin was responsible for the full enterprise cloud adoption and enablement of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and managed $2 million dollars of yearly spend. Martin also optimized cloud costs, created operational controls, implemented security policies, and educated teams on AWS and company best practices.

Martin's career also includes working at Hewlett-Packard as a Business Critical Servers Solutions Architect from 2007 to 2013, where they provided technical solutions and support to meet customer requirements. Martin also worked at Pitney Bowes from 2001 to 2007 as a Senior Systems Design Engineer, specializing in sizing, design, and deployment of server solutions.

Prior to that, Martin worked at Fort James / Georgia Pacific as a Sr. HP-UX Systems Administrator from 1998 to 2001. Martin also has experience working at Unilever as a Unix Systems Admin from 1997 to 1998, and at eunetcom / Sprint as a Messaging Analyst from 1995 to 1997.

Overall, Martin Paul has a strong background in cloud computing, infrastructure support, and system administration, with a focus on optimizing cloud costs and implementing best practices.

Martin Paul has a background in electronics and electronic engineering. Martin attended J. M. Wright Tech for a period of time, studying electronics. Martin also pursued further education at Norwalk State Tech, specializing in electronic engineering. In addition to their formal education, Martin obtained a certification in Cloud Architecture: Advanced Concepts from LinkedIn in August 2020.