Stijn Depril
You cannot control what you cannot see
- •Co-founder at Costra
- •Former Technical Infrastructure Architect
- •Hands-on FinOps experience across Europe managing millions of clouds spend
- •Certified FinOps Professional
ABOUT
About Costra
Costra turns technology spend into technology value. We give organisations the context and transparency to understand their consumption, and the control to steer it effectively.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Context turns cost into decisions
Cost figures on their own don't drive decisions. We add the context (whose spend, which product, what value) that turns numbers into action, and efficiency into a lasting habit.
How we work
Transparency
You can't steer what you can't see. We make consumption and cost visible to everyone who shapes it.
Context
Numbers alone don't help. We tie spend to the teams, products and decisions behind it.
Control
Visibility becomes power only when you can act on it. We put the levers in your hands.
What it leads to
Enablement
We build the capability into your teams, so it doesn't leave when we do.
Efficiency
Waste falls away once the right people can see it and own it.
Technology value
The goal was never lower bills. It's more value from every euro you spend.
THE TEAM
Meet the founders
Mike De Bruyn
FinOps Architect & Co-founder of Costra
- •Product Owner of Cloud Competence of Excellence
- •25+ years experience as an IT professional
- •Certified FinOps Practitioner
- •+3 years experience on FinOps
- •Co-founder of Costra
Ruben Vander Stockt
Driven by curiosity, passionate about tech
- •Co-founder Costra
- • Former Director of Community EMEA at the FinOps Foundation
- • Built hands-on experience at Google Cloud and AWS, leadership skills at Showpad
- •Certified FinOps Professional
JOIN US
Always open to great people
We don't keep a fixed vacancy list. We're always keen to meet people who are curious by nature, strong communicators, fluent in technology and genuinely comfortable with data. Drop us a line!
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