The One with 'Creating a FinOps Culture' and 'Cooking up an Auto Credit Flow'

How do you scale cloud platforms and credit data without blowing the budget or drowning in complexity?

Join us as we explore how teams are building cost aware cloud platforms and simplifying complex credit data pipelines.

** Talk #1: Credit Flow: Less Code, Cleaner Data Pipelines**
Speaker: Sinjin Maistry – Team Leader: Decision Science, Credit, Capitec
What if building and running credit data pipelines didn’t mean writing pages of complex code? Sinjin will introduce Credit Flow, a system that lets teams describe what they want a credit data pipeline to do using a simple configuration file—while the system handles the heavy lifting. He’ll walk through how this approach helps keep data pipelines clean, organised, automated, and easier to maintain, all while supporting better and faster credit decision‑making.

** Talk #2: Building a FinOps Culture (Not Just Cutting Costs)**
Speaker: Peter Twine – Manager: Technology FinOps, Capitec
Cloud costs don’t manage themselves—and dashboards alone won’t save you. Peter will share how Capitec is building a FinOps culture where cost awareness is part of everyday decision‑making, not an afterthought. He’ll talk about how tech teams are empowered to understand and own their cloud spend, make better data‑driven trade‑offs, and balance speed, scale, and financial discipline without slowing innovation. Expect practical insights into what actually works when it comes to cloud financial management, transparency, and collaboration across teams.

Sponsors
Capitec Bank – offering light snacks and drinks
Venue
142 West St, Sandown, Sandton
Limited capacity—please RSVP.
Requirements
In-person only (old-school, pre-COVID style)
Recruiting is discouraged; this event focuses on community, collaboration, and shared tech passion.

Agenda
Thursday, February 26, 2026 | 15:00 – 17:30

• 15:00 - 15:30 | Welcome and registration
• 15:30 – 16:00 | Sinjin Maistry, Credit Flow: Less Code, Cleaner Data Pipelines
• 16:00 – 16:30 | Peter Twine, Building a FinOps Culture (Not Just Cutting Costs)
• 16:30 – 17:30 | More socializing & networking

About our Speakers
Sinjin Maistry is a Team Leader: Decision Science, Credit at Capitec, where he works within Credit Management to support data driven retail credit decision making. He is a quantitative analyst with experience in the retail credit field and a strong focus on improving efficiency through analytical insight.
Peter Twine leads financial governance and cost optimisation across the bank’s technology platforms within Platform Engineering. He partners with technology teams to drive cloud financial management, transparent cost allocation, budgeting, and vendor management, ensuring technology spend delivers clear business value.

** Who should come along?**

• Cloud, platform, and DevOps engineers
• Data scientists, analysts, and analytics engineers
• Tech leads and engineering managers
• Anyone curious about FinOps, cloud cost ownership, or smarter data pipelines

Why Join?
Come for the talks, stay for the conversations, and leave with ideas you can actually use.

Hope to see you there!