Daniel Urquhart

Director, Software Programs @Alert Labs Inc.

I lead the teams that turn data into actionable insights for our customers. The Platform team is responsible for handling data from thousands of IoT devices, managing, aggregating, and presenting that information as interactive web pages, apps, reports, and alerts. The Data Science and Analytics team goes beyond aggregations to find deep insights and alerts in the data streams. My focus since joining Alert Labs has been refining our agile practices and provided technical guidance to improve team velocity and technical capability. I firmly believe that the best way to excel as a leader is to engage, enable, and develop each team member. Some specific outcomes in 20••••21 have been- Reduced per-device cloud infrastructure costs by over 50%- Reduced load times for key high-traffic pages by over 50%- Introduced detection of abnormal water events - Enhanced Alerts with a new dashboard, acknowledgement, notes, and user-prioritization - Introduced property tags & groups to enable our largest customers to better manage their deployments - Added a Grafana dashboard for monitoring fleet health with views accessible to multiple stakeholders I\'ve also worked with the team to identify where we were spending time that didn\'t bring much value to customers. Two key tools that we have introduced as a result are TypeScript and async/await. These changes allow developers to express their intent more concisely: we can complete the same work with less code and less time spent testing.