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 #11

I’m writing this one from an auto shop on a Wednesday. I sat down to do it Sunday and just couldn’t get into it. Then life happened and here we are.

On Sunday I watched the NCAA Women’s Basketball championship, rooting for UCLA, who ultimately won. One of my favorite sports parts of the year is over. I’ll start paying more attention to the LSU Tiger’s softball and baseball teams now, as well as keeping a side-glance on the MLB season.

My Peloton streak is alive and well, and I’m in the home stretch for getting the 100-day streak badge and completing that challenge. I had to really push myself to get all three rides in last week, but I did it.

My left knee is still bothering me. I think it’s nerve related so I’ve been doing some nerve flossing exercises when I remember to. I’m not sure if the pain is related to the more intense rides I’ve been doing, but just in case I chose less intense rides this week.

In other semi-medical news I went to my barber this week, and after getting my haircut I can say with absolute certainty that the keratosis on my temple is completely gone. Even my barber was shocked.

I’ve got some ideas for an AT Proto app I want to build. I’m thinking I can take the “things I enjoyed” parts of these posts and publish that to a little AT Proto powered microblog. I’m not 100% certain something like that is possible, but it at least gives me something to explore. Ideally I could tie these to my personal PDS and have them travel with me across the Atmosphere.

Things I enjoyed this week

  • This in-studio performance from Castle Rat on KEXP blew me away. The sound, the costumes, the performance. All of it is 1000% my shit.
  • I have been glued to coverage of NASA’s Artemis II mission. We watched the live-stream of the launch and I’ve had the stream on in the background all week while I work. It represents, to me, the best of humanity when so much happening these days represents the worst.

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