Summary
Kyle Rose is a hands-on technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Bend, Oregon, with 11 years of software engineering experience and a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University-Cascades. He progressed from engineering roles at G5 and Kollective Technology to strategic leadership at Niche, combining deep technical fluency with product-minded decision making. As a board member of the Central Oregon Innovation Network, he pairs regional civic engagement with startup and scale-up engineering experience. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who still enjoys writing code and prototyping hardware—“playing with boards I can put my feet on”—which keeps his architectural choices grounded in practical tradeoffs. His personal motto, echoed on GitHub,—“a man is nothing other than his project”—reflects a builder’s ethos: solving real problems by shipping tangible work. That blend of tactical execution, community involvement, and curiosity drives his approach to scaling teams and systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Oregon State University-Cascades