Lord Kelvin

Product

Alert & Channel Management

Alert and channel management interfaces for configuring cost and budget notifications across Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email channels.

Summary

  • BuiltDeveloped alert creation and editing workflows.
  • ProblemTeams needed timely spend alerts and reliable notification routing so budget issues could be addressed before they became expensive surprises.
  • ImpactRemoved the friction between setting cost thresholds and actually getting notified — no engineering handoff needed.

Problem

Teams needed timely spend alerts and reliable notification routing so budget issues could be addressed before they became expensive surprises.

Teams needed timely spend alerts and reliable notification routing so budget issues could be addressed before they became expensive surprises.

What I Built

3 key contributions that defined the build

  • Developed alert creation and editing workflows.
  • Built channel management views for routing notifications.
  • Supported cost and percentage threshold configurations.

Key Decisions

Tradeoffs and approaches that shaped the final outcome

Challenge

Making alert setup feel simple while supporting multiple channel types.

Approach

Designed form flows around clear threshold and channel choices.

Challenge

Keeping threshold logic understandable for budget and cost users.

Approach

Kept alert configuration close to delivery-channel context.

Impact

Removed the friction between setting cost thresholds and actually getting notified — no engineering handoff needed.

  • Removed the friction between setting cost thresholds and actually getting notified — no engineering handoff needed.
  • Supported proactive budget and cost monitoring workflows.