Marina Popova
Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorMarina Popova is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading distributed data-processing systems, currently contributing at Volt Active Data from Arlington, MA. She has designed and delivered large-scale streaming and batch pipelines across companies like TechTarget, NetApp, Yottaa and Epsilon, working with Kafka, Flink, Elasticsearch, Cassandra and cloud platforms including GCP and AWS. Marina pairs hands-on engineering with teaching: she’s a longtime instructor at Harvard Extension School for courses on big data, stream programming and modern analytics, bringing classroom rigor to production problems. She is an active open-source contributor to the kafka-elasticsearch-consumer project, emphasizing zero-data-loss semantics and scalable rebalancing strategies. Known for solving integration challenges and migrating legacy on-prem stacks to cloud-native pipelines, she combines strong architecture instincts with practical delivery. Her background in mathematics and astronomy plus an MS from Harvard give her a quantitative edge in designing robust data solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
3,994reputation
400kreached
28answers
41questions
apache-kafka
top-5%
Github Skills (37)
kafka9
apache-kafka9
elasticsearch9
java7
database7
confluent-platform6
oracle6
sql6
ai6
amazon-s36
quartz-scheduler6
sqlite6
inject6
spring6
injection6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ppine7/kafka-batch-processor
Feb 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 2 months
ppine7/CSCIE88A-FP-2023-Spring
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Code for CSCIE88A Harvard Extension class
Contributions:1 review, 20 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
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