The former Otago Boys' High School pupil is on a traineeship with USA Rugby and is based in Colorado Springs as the national side prepares for the World Cup.
In his role he does a bit of everything and is thoroughly enjoying it.
He mainly does strength and conditioning, along with analytics in his traineeship. That can include running team lifts, live GPS feedback to coaches, scouting opposition teams, film breakdown from trainings and keeping an eye of the wellbeing of players.
Kindley (25) has always been keen on his sport and has popped up in different places to learn his craft.
He graduated from the University of Otago in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in physical education, majoring in sports science. After that, he took a performance analysis internship with the Highlanders over the summer pre-season.
The next year he graduated with a diploma in physical conditioning from Otago Polytechnic, and worked with Zingari-Richmond and Otago.
In August 2017, still studying, he went to the prestigious Dartmouth College in the United States.
He worked for the rugby club and athletics department as a strength and conditioning coach.
After Dartmouth he moved to the Bronx in New York and helped former colleague Joe Gilfedder at Fordham College with its American football programme.
He returned to New Zealand for a while but last year as the United States Major Rugby League competition was about to move into its second year, he linked with the New England Free Jacks.
The Free Jacks were building towards an exhibition season and Kindley was offered a sports management traineeship with the side.
The goal of the traineeship was to gain experience within the broad fields of sports management and marketing, as well as high performance.
"Hopefully, I can develop a skill set I can bring back to my home country at its culmination. The team is based out of Boston and could be compared to a small Mitre 10 Cup franchise in its early stages in terms of our facilities and training," he said.
"Working within collegiate rugby provided me a sound understanding of the landscape of grass root rugby across America which has been useful in transitioning to the Free Jacks. We competed in the Cara Cup this season, playing against the Connacht, Ulster, Leinster and Munster A sides.
"I have found myself truly passionate about rugby in the USA and New England. The link back home has been very useful - sending players to New Zealand over the off season to upskill through experiencing some of the best club rugby in the world."
Loose forward Owen Hundt has linked with Dunedin while three players are with Sumner in Christchurch.
"It has been an amazing experience being part of a start-up organisations. Boston is a great place to live and has some of the richest sporting history, as well as the best sporting fans in the world [think Patriots, Celtics, Red Sox and Bruins]."
The team is set to debut next season.
After this season finished, there was the opportunity for his traineeship to be loaned to USA Rugby, which means he is based at the United States Olympic training centre in Colorado Springs, preparing for the World Cup.
Colorado Springs is 2000m above sea level and temperatures now, in summer, hover at 30-35degC.
The US national team will play Canada this weekend before playing in Fiji in the Pacific Nations Cup. Kindley works with head coach Gary Gold and other managers as he continues to learn and improve.
"It has been incredible to continue to learn from such incredible people. Seeing how such awesome organisations run is what the traineeship is all about."
