Julien Nioche

DigitalPebble Ltd

Julien runs DigitalPebble, a consultancy specialised in Green Software, GreenOps and Digital Sustainability. With 20+ years experience as a software developer, he has been involved in many open source projects, mainly at the Apache Software Foundation. Combining a personal passion for sustainability and environmental issues with his technical skills, Julien helps organisations reach their decarbonisation targets.
Julien is a certified FinOps practitioner from the FinOps foundation and is a member of Boavizta, the Green Software Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation.
He lives in Bristol and outside of work, enjoys music, furniture making, cycling and rewilding. Julien was at the very first BerlinBuzzwords and has given several talks there over the years.

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Society, Ethics & Sustainabilty

SPRUCE it up! Open Source GreenOps at scale

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<strong>GreenOps</strong> adoption is stalled by missing data from cloud providers. <a href="https://opensourcegreenops.cloud/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SPRUCE</a> is an open-source, scalable platform built on Apache Spark that enriches cloud usage reports with open models to quantify carbon impact, build insights, and help teams reduce both emissions and cloud spend.