Kyle Hounslow
Senior Software Engineer - OpenSearch at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKyle Hounslow is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale observability and AI systems, currently leading agent observability for OpenSearch at AWS. He architects trace ingest and normalization pipelines using OpenTelemetry, has built provider-agnostic processors across multiple agent frameworks, and contributed native Prometheus support to OpenSearch Dashboards. Previously he led high-throughput, multi-tenant data plane and alerting systems for Amazon Managed Grafana, operating services handling hundreds of millions of API requests and thousands of Kubernetes nodes. His background spans computer vision, embedded control systems, and ML — from real-time SLAM and deep learning to PLCs and CUDA acceleration — giving him a rare mix of systems, cloud, and model-focused expertise. An active open-source collaborator, he contributes to OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions and speaks at industry events like PromCon EU. Based in Vancouver, he pairs rigorous engineering discipline with operational ownership and a practical knack for normalizing heterogeneous telemetry into consistent, production-ready observability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (82)
dashboard10
grafana10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
monitoring10
data-visualization10
observability10
mysql10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
composable10
visualization10
visualize10
business-intelligence10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kylehounslow/bmw_2019
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
BMW Summer School Workshop on Computer Vision
Contributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 46 pushes in 1 year 1 month
summer-schoolpythonvisionbmwdeep-learning
Digitalist-USA/tara
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:21 PRs, 105 pushes, 14 branches in 2 months
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