In a world where cloud costs spiral as fast as cloud adoption, Matt Manger stands quietly at the center of one of the most important shifts in enterprise tech: real-time, engineering-led FinOps. As Co-Founder and Vice President of Customer Success at CloudZero, Manger brings a rare blend of software experience, product sense, and strategic customer understanding to the forefront of the FinOps movement.
Based in the Boston tech corridor, Manger has been instrumental in shaping CloudZero into a market leader in cloud cost intelligence. Behind the product dashboards and infrastructure analytics lies a core insight: FinOps isn’t just a platform, it’s a partnership.
From Engineer to Customer Advocate
With over 20 years in software engineering, Manger entered the FinOps space with the credibility of someone who’s lived the complexity of cloud infrastructure firsthand. That foundation allows him to speak the language of DevOps, finance, and product teams alike, a necessity when your job is helping enterprises align cloud spend with business value.
At CloudZero, Manger leads the Customer Success and FinOps Account Management teams, ensuring that each client, from early adopters to Fortune 500s, derives actionable, measurable value from the platform.
“Matt Manger sits at the intersection of engineering, customer strategy, and FinOps innovation,” notes a CloudZero partner. “He’s one of the reasons the product actually solves real-world problems.”
The FinOps Engine Behind the Funding
CloudZero’s recent $63 million Series C round, led by BlueCrest Capital and MongoDB Ventures, was the culmination of years of product-market fit refinement and hands-on customer iteration. Manger played a critical behind-the-scenes role, not only in shaping the customer journey and account strategy, but in proving out the results that made scale inevitable.
Working alongside CEO Phil Pergola and CTO Erik Peterson, Manger has helped lead the company through its most ambitious growth cycles to date.
Making Cloud Cost Clarity Practical
While many cost optimization tools exist, few deliver contextual insights that bridge the gap between finance and engineering. CloudZero’s innovation, like its “AnyCost” architecture and real-time unit economics dashboards, isn’t just technical. It’s deeply practical, guided by Manger’s vision of how teams actually work.
He’s also contributed to the company’s thought leadership library, including guides on reducing AWS bills and designing scalable, reliable cloud budgets, articles that have become standard reading in the FinOps space.
Customer Success at Enterprise Scale
Today, Manger manages a scaling team of FinOps experts, responsible for supporting CloudZero’s fast-growing client base across industries. His team ensures that every deployment of the platform delivers insights that lead to better decisions, cleaner infrastructure, and higher ROI.
Whether onboarding a new customer or advising a legacy enterprise migrating to modern FinOps, Manger’s team serves as the connective tissue between technology and value realization.
Why Matt Manger Matters
There are platform architects, and there are customer advocates. Matt Manger is both. His journey, from Syracuse University engineering graduate to FinOps operator, mirrors the evolution of the cloud economy itself: more complex, more dynamic, and more dependent on people who can bring clarity to the chaos.
As co-founder of CloudZero, he’s helped build more than just a startup. He’s built a movement, one that helps engineering and finance teams see eye to eye, one dashboard at a time.
