Dr. Rachael Tatman is a senior developer advocate at Rasa, where she helps developers use open source software to build great conversational AI projects. Her work bridges research and practice, turning advances in natural language processing into tools, tutorials, and talks that developers can actually use.

Before Rasa, Rachael was at Kaggle, part of Google, and completed a PhD in Linguistics. Her academic background gives her a distinctive perspective on how people actually use language, an essential ingredient for building chatbots and voice assistants that feel natural. She has shared that expertise in hands-on sessions such as her DataTalks.Club webinar Make Your First ML Chatbot.

Rachael is a regular speaker at data science and developer events, where she makes machine learning, linguistics, and conversational AI accessible to audiences of every level.