Summary
Stephen Lynn is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience and nine years in senior management roles at Comcast, where he currently directs five teams of 40+ engineers building backend services for global video platforms. He combines hands-on technical chops in Java, Cassandra/Scylla, AWS, and observability tooling with proven cost-conscious operational leadership—having cut cloud costs by 20% through ELB/autoscaling and AWS Cost Explorer initiatives. Stephen has led cross-continental team builds (including a 9-engineer center in India), launched services serving tens of millions of devices, and open-sourced tooling for RDK devices, demonstrating both product and platform impact. He pairs technical delivery with talent development, hiring and promoting senior engineers and managers while owning multi-million dollar cloud and contractor budgets. Trained at MIT and Wharton Executive Education, he brings a systems-level perspective from device firmware to cloud-scale backends that helps bridge embedded, media, and cloud domains.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Creating and Leading High Performing Teams Program, Creating and Leading High Performing Teams Program at Wharton Executive Education
Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Finance, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Finance at University of Pennsylvania