Kyle Pritchard
Design Engineer at Hydro International Ltd
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKyle Pritchard is a Bristol-based design engineer with a decade of hands-on experience spanning concept development through production. He blends logical rigor with creative problem solving to deliver products across mechanical design, user experience, and rigorous validation testing in competitive markets. Proficient in SolidWorks at the highest CAD level, he also uses AutoCAD, Inventor, Rhino, and visualization tools (Keyshot, V-Ray, Visualise) to produce detailed drawings and compelling renders, grounded in BS8888 and GD&T standards. His expertise covers DFM for timber and composite panels, vacuum and injection moulding, folded and structural steel, aluminium and plastic extrusion, along with rapid prototyping and FEA using SolidWorks Simulation. He has led resource planning, BOM creation and management, and build supervision, plus market analysis and design proposals, across roles at Hydro International, Bailey Caravans, TEN FOLD Engineering, and WH Bence Coachworks. Currently Design Engineer at Hydro International Ltd, he brings an end-to-end perspective to turning concepts into production-ready solutions, with a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Product Design Technology BSc (Hons), Industrial and Product Design, Second Class Honours (Upper Division), Product Design Technology BSc (Hons), Industrial and Product Design, Second Class Honours (Upper Division) at University of the West of EnglandMechanical Engineering National Diploma, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering National Diploma, Mechanical Engineering at Gloucestershire College
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (59)
vlang10
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programming-language10
javascript10
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translation10
css10
actionscript10
wxwidgets10
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cocoa10
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cgo10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kylepritchard/v
Mar 2022 - Aug 2024
Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. https://vlang.io
Contributions:22 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 5 months
dependenciesdevelopingzeroc99compiled-language
kylepritchard/go-website
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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