Tom Bocklisch
Principal Architect at Rasa
Jena, Thuringia, Germany
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Tom Bocklisch is a product-minded Principal Architect with 14 years of experience building and shipping conversational AI and distributed systems, currently leading Rasa’s next-generation LLM-powered platform and voice strategy. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps work—contributing to core open-source projects like Rasa and the widely used Rasa SDK—with senior leadership roles including acting VP of Engineering and Director of Engineering. Tom co-founded scalable minds, bringing an entrepreneurial lens to rapid prototyping and client-facing engineering, and has a strong systems background from work with Scala, Akka and Spark. His contributions span code, CI/CD automation, release management and architectural direction, reflecting a rare mix of deep technical craft and product-focused leadership.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) IT-Systems-Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) IT-Systems-Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
English, German
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Github Skills (40)
sanic10
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ras10
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python10
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testing10
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software-update10
cicd10
sdk10
rasa10
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githubaction-workflow10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tmbo/questionary
Dec 2018 - Aug 2022
Python library to build pretty command line user prompts ✨Easy to use multi-select lists, confirmations, free text prompts ...
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:96 reviews, 264 commits, 63 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tom's initial commit sets up the Python library, "questionary," and includes the initial code differences, which includes basic set up files. Subsequent commits added tests for the library's functionality across several prompts, covering list and checkbox interactions. Furthermore, the user excluded example files, added typing and re factored selectors. Additional commits include refactoring the selector. These commits demonstrate a focus on building out the core features and testing functionality for the "questionary" library.
command-linemultiselectpython
RasaHQ/rasa-sdk
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
SDK for the development of custom actions for Rasa
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 192 commits, 79 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Rasa SDK. They worked on implementing core functionalities, including action execution, form handling, and endpoint configuration. The user also set up and improved the project's CI/CD pipeline by fixing Travis builds and implementing a GitHub Actions workflow. They also improved the codebase with small fixes and added health endpoints to the service.
rasa
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