Rachael Tatman
Langauge Technology Educator
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRachael Tatman is a language technology educator and developer advocate with 11 years of experience translating linguistics research into practical, hype-free NLP training and tools. With a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Washington, she has led developer education programs at Google/Kaggle and Rasa, driving substantial audience growth through targeted courses, livestreams, and community surveys. Now self-employed in Richmond, VA, she produces accessible, non-trivial educational materials that help practitioners build reliable language tech that meaningfully improves people’s lives. Known for “making NLP boring,” she combines rigorous academic grounding with hands-on content production and event design, including large-scale online training for thousands of learners.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Linguistics, English, B.A., Linguistics, English at The College of William and MaryDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics at University of WashingtonFluvanna County High SchoolLinguistics Summer Institute 2015
American Sign Language, French, Esperanto
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
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Github Skills (57)
watson10
unconf10
profanity10
conversation10
assistants10
bots10
machine-learning10
google-assistant10
nlu10
facebook10
botkit10
praat10
voice10
dialogue-systems10
spacy10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rctatman/Livetweeting-Guide
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
rctatman/personal_website_bot
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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