Richard Abdill
Senior Data Scientist
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Abdill is a Senior Data Scientist with 12 years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of journalism, software engineering, and biology, now focused on bioinformatics and microbial ecology. He combines a journalist's knack for storytelling with deep technical skills developed across roles from system programming and cloud operations to computational lab management at leading medical schools. His work emphasizes meta-research into how the human gut microbiome is studied and communicated, bringing critical scrutiny to scientific practice as well as producing reproducible computational analyses. Based in Philadelphia and holding a PhD from the University of Minnesota, he excels at turning messy biological data into clear, evidence-driven narratives that guide both research and public understanding.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of Maryland
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (165)
scientific-publications10
api-client10
mtls10
ca10
ocsp10
aws-billing10
api10
python-requests10
pki10
arxiv10
fastly10
authority10
certificate-authority10
ice10
letsencrypt9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
blekhmanlab/rxivist
Jun 2018 - Jan 2021
API providing access to papers and authors scraped from biorxiv.org
Contributions:3 releases, 462 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 7 months
academic-publishingapipythonscientific-papersacademic-publications
rabdill/elector_calc
Aug 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 release, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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