Stephen Lynch

Stephen Lynch has extensive work experience in the field of DevOps engineering and systems administration. Stephen is currently working as a Lead Software Engineer (DevOps) at Rapid7 since December 2021. Prior to this, they worked at Kigen as a Staff DevOps Engineer from October 2020 to December 2021, and at Arm as a Staff DevOps Engineer from March 2019 to October 2020.

Before their roles in DevOps engineering, Stephen served as a Principal Systems Administrator at Liberty Information Technology from February 2018 to February 2019. Stephen also held the position of Senior Systems Administrator at the same company from March 2014 to February 2018, and as a Systems Engineer from February 2012 to March 2014.

Stephen has earlier work experience as an Infrastructure Engineer at Concentrix from August 2010 to February 2012, and at gem as a Technical Help Desk Manager from January 2010 to September 2010. Stephen also worked as a Technical Support Engineer at gem from May 2008 to December 2009.

Stephen began their career as a Technical Support Engineer at Village Roadshow from November 2007 to February 2008, and as a Desktop Project Support Engineer at EDS Group from May 2007 to July 2007.

Stephen Lynch obtained a Bsc Network Computing degree from Edinburgh Napier University from 2003 to 2005. Prior to that, they earned an HND Electronics and Software Engineering degree from NDAI between 2001 and 2003. Stephen also holds a BTEC National Diploma in Data Communications from NDAI, which they obtained from 1999 to 2001. In addition to their formal education, Stephen has obtained various certifications, including CCNA Routing & Switching, CCNA Voice, CCNP Routing & Switching, Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator R71 from Checkpoint Systems, Microsoft Certified IT Professional Enterprise Administrator on Windows server 2008 from Microsoft, Microsoft Design & Providing Volume Licensing Solutions to Large Organizations from Microsoft, and VMware Certified Professional from VMware.