About

Hi! My name is Tamara. I am a software engineer, OSS maintainer and NLP/CompLing researcher. You can find out more about me on GitHub and LinkedIn. This blog is for writing related to the technical work I do, as well as related learnings. Feel free to add me on LinkedIn if you want to connect or reach out for anything related to what you see here.

Upcoming community engagements

• A PyPodcasts upcoming episode
• “Fairlearn: a practical approach to assessing and mitigating harm in AI systems” EuroPython 2025 (July, Prague).

Recent talks and podcasts (that have a recording):

• Talking about scikit-learn custom estimators at the PyLadies Berlin.
• Discussing fairlearn and sociotechnical systems at the DataTalksClub podcast.
• A lightning talk at PyData Paris 2024 about LLMs and linguistic uniformity.
• PyLadies talk about an NLP research project.
• Discussing grounded language understanding at the D4Data podcast.

Older web presence

• A talk at Python Pizza Night 2019, “Multimethods (Multiple Dispatch) in Python”.
• A keynote at PGConf 2015 about fostering thriving open source communities.
• Making comics for (to be) Outreachy.
• “Decaying Free Software Communities vs. Emerging Hackerspaces” at SHARE 2, 2012.
• Google Open Source Blog: Macedonia Google Summer of Code meetups are a success.
• A talk with Marina Zhurakhinskaya at the “Linux Wee 2012” about “Promotion of Free Software in a local Community and importance of its educational use”.