Kyle Prouty
Data Engineer
Hey, I'm Kyle. I build data systems at HP and spend the rest of my time snowboarding, volunteering, and tinkering with side projects.
Before moving to Corvallis to attend Oregon State University, I worked at Timberline Lodge as a dishwasher, line cook, and banquet cook — snowboarding every chance I got while living in Sandy and Government Camp. After Timberline, I moved to Bend and supported myself cooking in high-end restaurants at night while riding during the day.
Eventually, my continued passion for computer science led me back to school. I graduated from OSU in 2018, joined HP as an intern, and have been building data platforms there ever since.
I share it all with my beautiful wife Brooke, who supports me in everything I do. We love getting outside together — hiking the valley, traveling, and soaking up everything Oregon has to offer.
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Bend, OR
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Zoo Day
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McMenamins
Great-Grandma's Plant
7+ years building data systems at scale
I lead a small team at the edge of raw telemetry and business insights. We build high-quality data marts that power forecasting, marketing, AI/ML, and executive reporting across HP's home printer and supplies business.
Maintained business-critical ink and laser printer and supply data products under strict SLAs, driving weekly, monthly, and quarterly releases. Helped drive the migration from Redshift to Databricks, optimized performance and cost, and evangelized the product across partners and customers. I helped support our customers, partners, and business in driving new insights, better quality data, and future value.
Built, deployed, and maintained data products on Databricks, dbt, and Kubernetes-based microservices. Designed Apache Airflow workflows, drove projects from proof of concept to production, and trained global teams on platform best practices.
Built and maintained cloud-based big data ETL pipelines across microservice, batch, and real-time workloads. Managed CI/CD pipelines, data lake and warehouse architectures, and cross-functional partner support.
Joined an R&D big data team to build cloud-based ETL pipelines. Implemented real-time microservices on AWS and built tools to detect defects in data sources.
Developed and deployed an embedded Python GUI application on a microcontroller to control hardware used in the synthesis of oligomers for genetic research.
Tutored students in introductory Java programming and data structures courses, helping build their foundations in computer science.
HWeekend, Near Space Exploration Club, Remotely Operated Vehicle Team
Giving back to the community
I built and actively support a full-stack crew scheduling and communication platform for Oregon Country Fair volunteers. Features include shift sign-ups, hour tracking, real-time crew chat, and event coordination.
Volunteer mentor running year-long capstone projects for Computer Science students. Guiding teams from concept through production-ready delivery across a range of data engineering and embedded computing domains.
At HP, I volunteer to organize and run Hour of Code events at local elementary schools, introducing kids to programming and computational thinking.
Side projects and explorations
A wall-mounted Raspberry Pi cluster serving as a home lab for dashboards, monitoring, backups, edge computing, full-stack development, Kubernetes deployments, and CI/CD pipelines.
Exploring AI at the edge — running LLMs and ML models on local hardware, building automation workflows, fine-tuning models, and experimenting with agentic toolchains.
Full-stack crew scheduling and communication platform for Oregon Country Fair volunteers. Real-time chat, shift management, hour tracking, and event coordination.
Experimenting with different full-stack frameworks and tools — building side projects to stay sharp across the entire stack.
Hands-on builds including a candy-dispensing machine for Halloween, ROVs, drones, wheeled robots, and reinforcement learning experiments on physical hardware.
This site — a split-screen Life | Data portfolio built with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No frameworks, no build tools.