William Lynn

Bill Lynn is an engineering Fellow at AMD. Bill has over 40 years’ experience architecting and developing storage subsystems. Bill started out as a disk drive designer with Digital Equipment Corporation designing 9”, 5.25”, 3.5” and 2.5” disk drives. Later he moved to Adaptec working in sales, marketing, and eventually the Office of the CTO as a RAID architect. During his tenure at Adaptec Bill helped form the SNIA IP Storage Forum and served as the forum chair for 2 years. Bill ran the early iSCSI interoperability events before transitioning the iSCSI interoperability effort to UNH. Bill was also one of the authors of the Infiniband specification. In 2006 Bill moved to Dell where he was responsible for server storage architecture. Bill was the original author of the SFF-8639 U.2 connector specification, one of the current editors of the SFF-TA-1008 EDSFF E3 device specification and served as Dell’s representative to the NVMe Board of Directors. Bill moved to AMD in 2023 as part of AMD’s Data Center Architecture and Strategy group.