Stephen Westrip
Technical Application Specialist
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Westrip is a Technical Application Specialist with over 40 years in IT and deep expertise in ERP systems, currently supporting Epicor Senior Living customers across aged care operations. He blends production planning certification (APICS) and decades of hands-on ERP, IBM iSeries/RPG, and helpdesk leadership to deliver practical, audit-compliant improvements for manufacturing and care providers. A seasoned consultant and project manager, he has implemented, trained on, and customized systems from MAPICS and Infor XA to Epicor ERP10, often bridging business process owners and technical teams. Unusually for a specialist focused on enterprise apps, he also contributes to low-level systems work—enhancing memory management and mmap handling in the well-known SerenityOS kernel—showing comfort with both high-level business solutions and OS internals. Based in Melbourne, he is customer-centric, communicative, and thrives in both independent and team-based roles.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Elwood Secondary College
English
Github Skills (12)
kernel10
memory-management10
system-calls10
mmap10
c-language10
posixct10
cprogramming-language10
posix10
operating-system10
osdev9
macos9
browser4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SerenityOS/serenity
Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Stephen focused on enhancing the SerenityOS kernel, particularly in the area of memory management and system calls. They refactored and improved mmap-related functions, ensuring proper validation and handling of memory protection flags. Additionally, the user contributed to the mount system by implementing the `wxallowed` option. These changes indicate a deep understanding of low-level system programming and operating system internals.
kernelunixbrowserserenityoperating-system
jakewestrip/serenity
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
kernelserenityoperating-systemlinuxoperating
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