Rachael Ainsworth
Senior Product Manager at Kraken
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRachael Ainsworth is a Senior Product Manager at Kraken with nine years of experience bridging research, software sustainability, and product delivery. A recovering academic with a PhD in Astrophysics, she has led fellowship programmes, community-building initiatives, and FAIR data efforts at the Software Sustainability Institute and UKSRC, turning complex research needs into usable tools and workflows. She founded and organises the HER+Data Manchester chapter, reflecting a commitment to inclusive data communities alongside product work. Rachael combines deep domain knowledge of research software with hands-on product management experience shipping administrative tooling and managing cross-disciplinary collaborations. Unexpectedly, her background in studio art (photography) informs a design-forward approach to product problems, helping translate technical complexity into clear user experiences.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at Trinity College, DublinBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Studio Art (Photography), Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Studio Art (Photography), Cum Laude at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (52)
data-science10
machine-learning10
science10
open-access9
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versioning7
particle-physics7
version-control7
jekyll6
stable6
python6
open-science6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rainsworth/rainsworth.github.io
Jan 2019 - Feb 2023
Personal webpage using the Moon theme.
Contributions:85 commits, 2 PRs, 81 pushes in 4 years 1 month
moonpersonal-webpagewebpage
rainsworth/the-turing-way
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
Host repository for The Turing Way: a how to guide for reproducible data science
Contributions:33 PRs, 111 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 3 months
how-to-guidesciencehostdata-sciencemachine-learning
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