Rachael Ainsworth
Senior Product Manager at Kraken
Stevenage, 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 (37)
data-science10
open-access9
css8
versioning7
astronomy7
open-science7
open-source7
github7
version-control6
science6
jekyll6
stable6
python6
reproducible-research6
particle-physics6
Programming languages (9)
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/intro-to-github
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
A friendly introduction to GitHub as part of @OpenDataManchester's Pick N Mix series.
Contributions:1 release, 120 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 1 month
pickmix
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