Petya Kangalova
Senior Tech Partnership & Engagement Manager at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPetya Kangalova is a Senior Tech Partnership & Engagement Manager with over a decade of experience at the intersection of international development, humanitarian response, and open tech. She has built and grown global volunteer contributor networks and led strategic partnerships at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, driving adoption of open mapping tools and coordinating flagship community initiatives like HOT Open Summit and Tasking Manager development. Petya combines programme and product experience—from managing data quality and tooling at IATI to running tech advocacy and working groups at HOT—with a strong focus on inclusive community building and mentorship. Based in the UK and an AWS CTO Fellowship recipient, she is skilled at turning technical ecosystems into collaborative catalysts for impact, often surfacing practical, community-led solutions that amplify local mapping and data capacity.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School for European Languages, Ruse, BulgariaMSc Economics (Development), MSc Economics (Development) at University of BathBA Economics and Development Studies Development Economics and International Development, BA Economics and Development Studies Development Economics and International Development at University of Sussex
Bulgarian, English, Russian
Github Skills (60)
validation10
nightly10
identifier9
xml-schema9
codelist9
open-data9
documentation8
lists7
solrcloud7
static-site7
xml7
python6
solr6
ckan-extension6
django6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PetyaKangalova/IATI-Rulesets
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Various conditional and restraint rules for IATI data
Contributions:48 pushes in 6 days
iatiiati-dataconditionalrules
IATI/IATI-Codelists-NonEmbedded
Jul 2017 - May 2020
IATI Codelists that are 'non-functional' and usually provide lookup information.
Contributions:7 reviews, 30 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 10 months
iatinon-functionalvalidationopendatastandards
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