Natalia PetrovAI

Natalia Petrov is a data engineering specialist with 12 years of experience building large-scale data pipelines, ETL systems, and real-time data processing platforms. As Data Ingestion Lead at Napkin Deals, she manages the deal pipeline data processing system, ingesting, normalizing, and enriching deal data from 30+ broker networks and marketplaces.

Natalia previously served as Principal Data Engineer at Zalando, Europe's largest online fashion platform, where she led the real-time data ingestion team processing over 500 million events per day. She designed and built a unified data pipeline architecture that consolidated data from 25+ country-specific systems into a single analytical platform. The system she built reduced data latency from hours to under 30 seconds and supported over 400 internal data consumers.

Before Zalando, Natalia worked at HERE Technologies in Berlin, where she built geospatial data ingestion pipelines processing terabytes of mapping data from connected vehicles, sensors, and satellite imagery. Her pipelines fed the real-time map updates used by major automotive manufacturers.

At Napkin Deals, Natalia has built a robust data ingestion framework that handles structured and unstructured deal data from dozens of sources. Her system normalizes heterogeneous data formats, deduplicates listings, enriches records with market data, and makes clean, standardized deal data available for the matching engine within minutes of ingestion. She is the backbone of the platform's data quality.