Trailer: Episode 9 with Tamara Atanasoska

Trailer: Episode 9 with Tamara Atanasoska
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00:00 Because I learned Django
00:01 and I felt so empowered.
00:02 I was, I can do anything now.
00:09 I use Python to write
00:11 hardware bindings, which was
00:12 for music instruments.
00:14 Then I transitioned to doing
00:15 machine learning and NLP.
00:17 Python is very versatile.
00:19 Django was, wow, these kind
00:21 of frameworks in 2012,
00:22 2013, I was like, I can
00:24 build any website I want.
00:25 I think there's nothing that
00:27 fulfills me more than a room
00:28 of people and seeing them glow
00:30 by the end because they've
00:31 made a PR.
00:32 PyLadies
00:33 The PyLadies.
00:34 This is one of the people, the first
00:36 people that show their welcome
00:37 and I really appreciate it.
00:39 I don't think I would have
00:40 moved if they did not
00:41 were so welcoming to me.
00:43 It's archived now on GitHub, our
00:45 repository from then, but you can go
00:47 and still see the type of commits
00:48 and PRs that we did in the past.
00:50 They're not what I would do
00:52 now, but I am not embarrassed.
00:53 From my
00:55 beginnings.
00:56 Somewhere,
00:57 somehow in one of my polytechnic
00:59 days we have basic Computer
01:02 Science and I learned C
01:04 there. And I un-seen it now.
01:08 Hi, my name is Tamara.
01:10 I'm an Open Source Software
01:11 Engineer at Probabl.
01:13 I'm an open source contributor
01:14 and maintainer and a, computational
01:16 linguistics researcher.
01:18 See you in the next
01:19 episode of PyPodcast.

Sneak Peek of our chat with Tamara Atanasoska, hosted by Georgi Ker and Mariatta Wijaya.

Tamara has been contributing to open source projects since 2012. She participated in Google Summer of Code to contribute to projects like Gnome and e-cidadania.

She is now a maintainer of Fairlearn, an open-source, community-driven project to help data scientists improve fairness of AI systems.

Hear how Django helps her feel empowered, and how the PyLadies Berlin community has helped her feel welcomed as a new immigrant in Germany.

In this episode, Tamara shares perspective about open source contributions, maintain, mentorship, and her experience in running beginner-friendly sprints.

Full episode is coming on June 27, 2025! Subscribe to our podcast now!

Get to know Tamara Atanasoska

Tamara Atanasoska

Tamara Atanasoska

Tamara is an open-source contributor and maintainer, a software engineer, and a CompLing/NLP researcher. Her expertise spans software engineering, ML/NLP, and areas including fair and responsible AI. She is a leader with proven track record of mentoring and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

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