Abigail Searfoss
Program Manager at Sarah Cannon Research Institute
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbigail Searfoss is a Ph.D.-trained program manager and product leader with 8 years of experience building data-driven SaaS products in healthcare and EdTech, recently managing a $4.5M ARR compliance product and now leading programs at Sarah Cannon Research Institute. She combines a strong computational and physics background with hands-on product execution—shipping analytics stacks, improving release velocity, and driving a 95% report performance gain and 99% vendor compliance in fast-moving pilots. Abigail excels at translating complex research and technical constraints into pragmatic roadmaps, avoiding low-ROI builds while identifying new revenue opportunities. Her career began in interdisciplinary labs where she developed production-ready Python tools for large-scale citizen-science analyses, a detail that underscores her ability to bridge research-grade engineering and customer-facing product work.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Chemical and Physical Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Chemical and Physical Biology at Vanderbilt UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Marquette University
English
Github Skills (15)
r-package9
dataframe8
segmentation8
kivy7
r7
pydata7
pandas6
python6
data-cleaning6
package6
bundle5
pyinstaller4
data-engineering4
py2app1
py2exe1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
asearfos/chipper
Aug 2017 - Jan 2020
Software (with Kivy GUI) for semi-automated segmentation and analysis of birdsongs or other acoustic signals.
Contributions:168 commits, 31 PRs, 105 pushes in 2 years 6 months
kivysegmentation
asearfos/chipping_sparrows_time_of_day
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
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