Daria Orlova

Background

About Daria Orlova

Data Professional with over 5 years of experience, including 2.5+ as a Data Engineer at Atolls. I combine strong analytical thinking with technical execution — bridging stakeholder needs and data engineering to build reliable, scalable solutions that turn complexity into clarity. With a background in finance and a passion for data, I create pipelines and products that improve accuracy, streamline processes, and empower data-driven decisions that truly add value. I bring curiosity and determination to find hidden needs. Starting as a Controlling Specialist, I automated manual financial reports and set up MySQL Database, that passed audits, and consistently improved data accuracy. In BI and analytics roles, I scaled these efforts — designing KPIs, automating revenue and provision reporting, supporting audits, and advocating for richer transactional and invoice data ingestion & quality, which laid the foundation for the finance data team, a key part of the company’s data platform. Now, as a Data Engineer, I focus on making large-scale, complex data reliable, transformed, and accessible. I use APIs to extract Affiliate Network and Salesforce data, on a high-scale AWS platform with Spark and Scala, having 1.2PT+ in S3, running 12k+ daily Airflow tasks. My superpower is identifying potential workarounds and preventing future messy maintenance or complex data implementations. Recently, I designed FX rates pipelines for both batch and lambda-architecture processing, ensuring FX rates remain consistent across all sources and reports. I’m currently learning more about the data engineering market in Germany and aiming to be more present and visible in the community. I’m open to exchanging knowledge, connecting with fellow professionals, and exploring opportunities for collaboration.