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. I write on Substack about the intersections of language, technology and society. Some of the topics mentioned here will find an expansion over there.

2025 will be a year of reading and learning, and I will share the papers and books I will go through for my research and to improve my technical skills. 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
• PyData Berlin (May)
• “Fairlearn: a practical approach to assessing and mitigating harm in AI systems” EuroPython 2025 (July, Prague).

Recent talks and podcasts

• 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”.