Head of FinOps, Coursera

Yfaat is a Toronto-based Technology & Operations Leader with 15+ years of experience across enterprise software, cloud, AI, fintech, and technology transformation. She works at the intersection of technology strategy, operations, financial efficiency, and business outcomes. Her experience includes developing FinOps and cloud economics practices at Udemy, leading technology investment and optimization initiatives, driving AI transformation, and delivering engineering efficiency improvements. Previously, she led strategic technical programs at Elastic across cloud, observability, infrastructure, security, and compliance. Her work focuses on a central question: how can organizations turn emerging technology into measurable business value while building the operating models, governance, and financial discipline needed to scale it?