Summary
Pia Kochar is a Lead Engineer with a decade of experience designing and shipping large-scale cloud database features at MongoDB, now leading the Atlas Migration team to simplify customer data migrations into Atlas. She combines full-stack chops—React, Java, MongoDB—with deep cloud expertise across AWS, Azure, and GCP to deliver secure, high-performance platform features that drive customer adoption and revenue. Her work includes patent-pending archival tiering, Atlas-managed X.509 authentication and GCP VPC peering, and she has a proven track record of leading cross-functional projects and internship teams. A Penn magna cum laude graduate with research experience in formal verification, Pia brings both rigorous academic foundations and practical product instincts to complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Walt Whitman High School
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Computer Science, 3.71/4.00, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Computer Science, 3.71/4.00 at University of Pennsylvania
English, Hindi, Spanish