Stephen Lynch
Embedded Firmware Engineer at Octopus Energy
Trafford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStephen Lynch is an Embedded Firmware Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience designing hardware and firmware for consumer and industrial products, currently contributing to Octopus Energy. He led development of VERTO, a car-video interface switch, and has broad firmware expertise across ESP32, ARM and RISC-V platforms with WiFi, BLE, GNSS, USB, Modbus and cloud integrations. His background spans from miniaturising narrow-linewidth lasers in a PhD-level optics program to shipping edge AI and embedded Linux solutions, giving him a rare blend of photonics-grade precision and pragmatic product engineering. Known for taking projects from legacy-maintenance through full product development, he thrives on interfacing diverse IO technologies and modernising embedded stacks. Based in Trafford, England, he combines research rigour with pragmatic delivery in fast-moving hardware-software teams.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Laser and Optical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Laser and Optical Engineering at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (8)
rust6
scanf6
pipe6
raspberry5
usb4
java4
raspberry-pi3
apache3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stephenglynch/RustyBox
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:44 commits, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
stephenglynch/advent-of-code-2022
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:24 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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