Kyle Hebert

Hello and Welcome!

I'm Kyle Hebert, an engineering leader who spends a lot of time connecting dots. I work across multiple teams, focusing on technical health, system-level risk, and making sure product ambition lines up with what engineering can actually sustain. I’ve learned the hard way that authority isn’t the point—initiative is. I care about making good software, and even more about the people who make it.

In my spare time I dabble in a lot of hobbies like video and board games, reading (mostly fiction), and attending as many live music shows as I can sustain.

I live in Minneapolis, but I was born and raised in Louisiana. It's pronounced a-bear.

Here's what I wrote yesterday:

Weekly Retro #12

It’s 80 degrees out today, so we’ve spent some time outside getting ready for spring. We pulled the patio furniture and charcoal grill out of storage. I scrubbed the grill and even picked up supplies for spring cleaning our windows. We also walked over to a little restaurant that sells soft serve where I treated myself to a vanilla strawberry twist.

Last night we saw Madison Cunningham on the last stop of her tour for her new album “Ace”. It was incredible. She took the stage with one other band member, Jesse Chandler, and blew our minds for about two hours. Cunningham sang, played piano, and guitar, while Chandler played multiple woodwinds, synthesizers and more. They used a combination of effect pedals and loops of their live playing to create a soundscape like nothing I’ve heard. She talks a little bit about the effect pedal set up in this episode of “The Pedal Show”

At dinner before the show I said to my wife that I was curious how Cunningham would perform the songs from “Ace” which are a real departure from her previously guitar driven work. I had no idea what we were in store for. They even performed some of her older songs in the “Ace” format and it all just worked.

I hit my 100-day streak of workouts in the Peloton app this week. Unfortunately I missed the challenge deadline by 1 day. I honestly wasn’t aware the challenge had a deadline. Oh well. I’m still proud of the accomplishment and the routine, and I’ll probably just keep the streak active as long as possible with the combination of bike rides, meditation, and stretching that got me this far.

Things I enjoyed this week

  • This post from Anil Dash on how corporations are actually strategizing against their employees said a lot of what I’ve been feeling at work.
  • This performance by Angine de Poitrine for KEXP showed up in my feeds, and I ignored for awhile at first. However once I caved and finally watched it, I’m now a huge fan. There’s something about microtonal music that really flips a switch in my brain. I’m a King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard fan, and their microtonal albums are some of my favorite music.
  • The Artemis II crew returned this week, splashing down in the Pacific around 7PM Central time. I’ve enjoyed the entire mission. It’s been a bright light in a dark time.

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