From "Reboot" Mindset to FinOps Governance in the AI Era | Teck.Rocks - Paroles de Tech Leaders
About the episode
In this new episode of the series dedicated to the speakers of Tech.Rocks Summit 2025, we welcome Jean-Laurent de Morlhon, SVP Software Engineering at Docker, joining Fabien Punin (CDO of Opsima) and Alexandre Lacroux (CTO of Opsima).
"There's an engineer mindset: before downloading a tool, we tell ourselves 'Wait, I can do this. I know how to code it, no need to buy it.'"
It's with this mentality that Docker's teams built, after its restructuring in 2019, a culture of frugal innovation and a governance framework that still inspires its R&D efforts in AI today.
For Jean-Laurent, FinOps wasn't a theorized discipline but a field experience born from the company's "reboot." From constraint came a frugal and decentralized FinOps governance at scale—one where sometimes simply showing costs to teams is enough to reveal ingenuity.
In this episode, he discusses the complexity of negotiations with hyperscalers, the critical role of FinOps in tech leaders' accountability, and his experiments around AI.
A conversation about pragmatism, clarity, and technical creativity: how Docker transformed frugality into a driver of collective intelligence.
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