Ekaterina Bastrakova
Data Team Lead with 7+ years of experience in data engineering and team leadership. Led data teams in high-traffic consumer products (80M+ users), driving both technical and organizational initiatives — from analytics infrastructure and GDPR compliance to prioritization, stakeholder communication, and engineer growth. Comfortable working across engineering, product, and business functions.
Experience
- Led a data team of 3 engineers responsible for the product analytics infrastructure.
- Planned and prioritized team workload, ensuring transparency of timelines and delivery for stakeholders.
- Drove technical and organizational initiatives in a high-traffic consumer product (millions of events per day).
- Coordinated cross-functional work across data, backend, DevOps, and legal teams.
- Led GDPR audit preparation and implemented data retention and compliance policies.
- Initiated and managed the migration of Couchbase to a cloud-managed solution.
- Prepared status reports, KPIs, and executive-level presentations.
- Conducted 1:1s, onboarding, and supported engineer growth and workload balance.
- Designed and maintained data pipelines (MongoDB, BigQuery, Airflow, Elasticsearch).
- Worked with user activity data such as messages, swipes, and matches.
- Contributed to analytics and product-driven initiatives.
- Maintained documentation and collaborated closely with business teams.
- Contributed to the development and pilot launch of the Corporate Insight analytics product for corporate clients.
- Worked with corporate travel and booking data.
- Built data processing and aggregation pipelines using Apache Spark.
- Prepared datasets for customer-facing analytics dashboards in Tableau.
- Participated in pilot launches with 3 enterprise clients and gathered feedback for scaling.
- Combined roles of Data Engineer and Scrum Master within a cross-functional team.
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, helped refine requirements, and prepared status reports.
Education
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
MSc — Innovation and Research in Informatics · 2016–2017
Université Lumière Lyon 2
MSc — Data Mining and Knowledge Management · 2015–2016
Russian State Social University
BSc — Information Systems and Technologies · 2011–2015