Karina Popova - Official Personal Website | IoT | Blockchain | Woman In Tech | DevRel Advocate

MY TIME

What makes my WORLD unique.

ENJOY THE BLESSEDNESS OF MY READING LIFE

I like to read everywhere, and I am passionate about sleepless nights with Books. This section is about what I’m reading now, what I want to read, and what I should read next (any suggestions are welcome). I read mostly hardcover prints because I love their unique smell. But I also have a rare enchantment for e-books, for really good ones.

ABOUT KARINA

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.

There are so many different networks around us. Often we need to use them differently. What I have learned during my lifetime: The Internet is just an instrument for my success, and I would like to stick to this philosophy.

Having completed my four outstanding MSc in Advance Informatics, Economics, Geospatial Technologies, and Psychology with the help of different scholarships and excellent grades, I can personally attest to the wide range of growth opportunities.

I have been an international Developer Lead - Financial Advisor - Technical Evangelist for 17 years. My level of professional knowledge allowed me to be a perpetual traveler, attend hundreds of IT-related events, meet thousands of great people, and quickly move between ten cities.

My broad programming focus is object-oriented languages, database technology, and front-end development. I am passionate about my work, reading classics, writing psychological dramas, speaking at IT events, and being lost in statistical analysis. I concentrate on all aspects of new technologies and features - developing algorithms for business intelligence and optimizing the decision-making process. You can find more detailed information on my LinkedIn page.

Karina, 2020s

LIFE EXPERIENCE
years
Master's Degrees
achieved
WORK EXPERIENCE
years
TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
countries

YOUR TIME

There's never enough time to do all you want.

MY TECH KNOWLEDGE TO SHARE

Technical Account Manager @ Datadog, Previously: DevOps/System Engineer, Developer Evangelist, Head of IT

Freelancing, web-development, coding, business intelligence, knowledge sharing, public speaking – my daily business.

THE BIGGEST ADVENTURE IS LIFE

Vacations create memories that last for decades. The Upcoming Trips: Eurocup 2021, Oriental Cruise, New York

You want to get more from your travels than just a few nice photos you can hang on your wall – you also want photos you can hang on your heart.

BE MORE ORGANIZED AND SPORTY

The next activities: The hella hamburg half marathon will be held in Hamburg in June, Mud run in August 2021

While seeing the sites is great, you also want to enhance your personal growth. Follow the plan to success.

KEEP THAT WILD IMAGINATION

Currently reading a book by Christopher Clark named “The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914”

Discuss books which and be a part of the literature club, it helps your brain cells to be more active, young and fresh. Imagination is a key to stay creative for decades.

Testimonials

Praise, encouragement and kind words are an essential part of our everyday communication across all ages

Karina Popova was my student at the New University of Lisbon geospatial graduate program. Admission to the program is strongly competitive, and all students are expected to perform at an advanced level. Bringing a tremendous amount of technical and policy expertise to her studies, Karina consistently exceeded those high expectations. In fact, I invited her to co-present some of her classroom work for a keynote speech I gave at an international conference. Karina is intelligent, personable, and hardworking, and I expect her to become a professional leader in integrating geospatial techniques with public policy/economic modeling.

Alan Glennon

PhD, Cofounder, Arogi

Karina has the ability to conduct analysis and make an expert conclusion. She has a very broad vision, a high level of education. She is able to quickly evaluate many areas of business. I know her by her work as an economist-engineer in the state organizations of very high rank and successful commercial structures, where she showed her ability to produce the result in a short time as multi-tasking. Karina is well versed in matters of accounting for investments in the budgetary sphere at the regional and Federal level. Professionalism, honesty and scrupulosity is one of the main qualities of Karina.

Alexander Pervakov

Deputy Minister Management

Mrs. Popova successfully completed her study among the best in her class. She finished her master’s research, using twitter data to determine the influence of football in politics. Her research interests in the GIS domain concentrate around data analytics, geospatial social data, crowd sourcing with application areas in political, governance issues. Karina has also worked as a public officer and a consultant. She is a very well related individual, very diligent, organized and a deadline complier. She is among the top 5% of over two hundred Masters and PhD students that I have either supervised or evaluated as committee chair.

Marco Painho

Full Professor of GIS

TIME IS A CREATED THING...
TO SAY "I DON'T HAVE TIME" IS LIKE
SAYING, "I DON'T WANT TO"