Kyle Hounslow
Senior Software Engineer - Opensearch @Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Software Engineer - Opensearch @Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, BC, CA
Leading development of agent observability capabilities for OpenSearch—open-source trace ingest, metrics, and evaluation infrastructure for LLM-powered systems using OpenTelemetry- Architecting trace ingest pipeline using Data Prepper to normalize agent telemetry across frameworks (OpenInference, OpenLLMetry, Strands) into OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions- Building OTel Collector processor (genainormalizer) as provider-agnostic abstraction across 6+ agent frameworks- Shipped native Prometheus query support in OpenSearch Dashboards (backend plugin merged to open-source)- Contributing to upstream OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions- Speaker: PromCon EU 2025
EDUCATION
The University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Electrical and Computer Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT KYLE HOUNSLOW
Currently building observability tooling for AI agents—tracing, metrics, and evaluation using OpenTelemetry and OpenSearch. Previously at AWS: 4.5 years building and operating Amazon Managed Grafana—high-throughput distributed systems, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines. Before AWS: Tech Lead and Engineer in Computer Vision/ML (7+ years). Delivered real-time systems for sports analytics, medical imaging, and surveillance. Created OpenCV tutorials on YouTube (700K+ views). Speaker: PromCon EU 2025, Google DevFest (Deep Learning/Computer Vision).
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