Darrin Stephens
Principal Engineer at KBR, Inc.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDarrin Stephens is a Managing Director and principal research engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience applying and developing open-source CFD tools, notably as a lead developer of Caelus and head of Applied CCM in Melbourne. He blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in Mechanical Engineering—with practical industry impact from roles at CSIRO, ATD International, and the Sugar Research Institute, specialising in multiphase flows, phase-change heat transfer and population balance modelling. Darrin has a rare combination of technical support, training and commercial leadership experience, having supported ANSYS-CFX deployments across Australasia and led technical teams to deliver client-focused CFD solutions. He also brings product distribution and partnership experience through Applied CCM’s Pointwise representation, and a recent broadening into cyber security and business law studies that sharpen his risk-aware, commercially minded approach. Colleagues value him for translating complex CFD research into robust, production-ready simulations and for championing correct, ethical application of modelling across industries.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate, Business Law, Graduate Certificate, Business Law at Southern Cross UniversityMaster of Data Science, Master of Data Science at Deakin UniversityPhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at James Cook UniversityGraduate Certificate, Cyber Security, Graduate Certificate, Cyber Security at Charles Sturt University
English
Github Skills (6)
jupyter-notebook8
python7
data-science6
openfoam3
machine-learning1
3d1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dwstephens/EZyRB
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 5 months
dwstephens/PyGeM
Jul 2018 - Nov 2022
Python Geometrical Morphing
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 5 months
python
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