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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.
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Get to know 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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Entrepreuneur, community leader and designer. Fellow member and Director of PSF. Also serve in the D&I Workgroup and honored with the PSF Community Service Award in December 2020.
Mariatta is a Python Core Developer. In her free time, she contributes to open source, builds GitHub bots, fixes typos, and likes to tell you about Python's f-strings. As a public speaker, she has given her talks and keynotes wordwide.