Carrying Complexity, Delivering Agility

Resilience, intelligence, and simplicity: The pillars of MongoDB’s engineering vision for innovating at scale We’re relatively new to MongoDB— Ashish joined two years ago via the Granite acquisition after a decade-plus building Google’s databases and distributed systems, and Akshat joined in June 2024 after 15 years building databases at AWS. We have a shared obsession with distributed systems. We’d seen how much developers loved MongoDB, which is part of the reason we joined the company—MongoDB is one of the most loved databases in the world.