Sara Bowman
Product Manager at Crossref
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Bowman is a product manager with 11 years of experience shaping data-driven strategy and roadmaps for research and scholarly infrastructure, currently at Crossref after leading product for free, open-source research tools at the Center for Open Science. With a PhD in Chemical Engineering and hands-on engineering experience, she blends technical depth—contributing back-end code and documentation to widely used open-science projects like OSF—with strong stakeholder engagement and solutions-oriented leadership. Her background in academic research and industrial internships gives her a rare fluency in both rigorous scientific workflows and pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex domain needs into clear feature definitions that improve reproducibility and user trust across organizations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, B.S., Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science at Lafayette CollegeUniversiteit Utrecht / University of UtrechtPhD, Chemical Engineering, PhD, Chemical Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (7)
python10
data-management10
django10
database-administration9
documentation8
apidoc5
api5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
Sep 2014 - Jan 2020
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:146 commits, 83 PRs, 134 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sara primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the osf.io repository. Their commits involved modifying and adding data to the `populate_conferences.py` script, indicating work related to the management and configuration of conference-related data. They also updated various templates, particularly FAQs and help sections, reflecting a focus on improving the user interface and documentation of the platform. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to the Dataverse add-on.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
saradbowman/osf.io
Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
Facilitating Open Science
Contributions:75 PRs, 188 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 9 months
opensciencepythonscienceopen-science
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