The Vision
Rebecca Bilbro, Ph.D
Founder/CTO
Dr. Rebecca Bilbro, co-founder and CTO of Rotational Labs, is a trailblazer in applied AI and machine learning engineering. She co-created Yellowbrick, a Python library that enhances model diagnostics by integrating scikit-learn and matplotlib APIs, facilitating more intuitive model steering.
At Rotational Labs, Dr. Bilbro leads initiatives that empower companies to harness their domain expertise and data, resulting in the successful deployment of large language models and data-driven products. Her efforts bridge the gap between data science and engineering, driving AI solutions that are grounded in real-world business needs, informed by research, rigorously prototyped, and built with deployment and data governance in mind.
She is the co-author of Applied Text Analysis with Python (2018, O’Reilly) and Apache Hudi: The Definitive Guide (2025, O’Reilly). Dr. Bilbro earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, focusing her research on domain-specific languages within engineering.
Blog Posts Written by Rebecca
The Eventing Platform Landscape
Kafka and PubSub and Kinesis, oh my! Which eventing platform is best? In this post we’ll explore the three primary categories of eventing systems and understand their similarities, differences, and key use cases.
Sep 10, 2022
6 Things You Didn't Realize about Crypto
As a distributed systems company, we’ve had the privilege of speaking with dozens of vendors building crypto-adjacent solutions over the past few years. We’ve learned a lot along the way, especially about some of the key misconceptions that …
Jun 6, 2022
Why Developers Don't Translate The Docs
Stars, forks, likes, upvotes, downloads. In a world where user metrics rule, why don’t more technical projects translate their docs to reach more global users?
Oct 21, 2021
Why UX Will Get Worse Before it Gets Better
The things we make are not user-friendly by accident; we have to make them that way. And that’s hard. For most of the time people have been making things, we’ve been mainly concerned with making them user-friendly for just us. …
Jun 10, 2021
Using Google's Secret Manager API with Go
Security is by definition an inconvenience. At the very least, it’s about making access to data as challenging as possible for the baddies, conveniently measured in computation time. But good security also requires us good folks to go …
Jun 1, 2021
What Are Protocol Buffers?
Protocol buffers are a method for serializing data to efficiently send between programs. The structure is reminiscent of XML or JSON, but unlike these more commonly used text-based serialization methods, protocol buffers are designed to …
May 19, 2021
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