Posted on December 16, 2025
Tyler Kaye (Bronfman ’13) is a Lead Engineer at MongoDB, where he has spent the last seven years growing from individual contributor to engineering manager and technical lead. He currently works on MongoDB Atlas, focusing on durability, availability, and customer-facing reliability at scale. Leading technical teams across time zones and later spending a year in Denmark taught him to navigate diverse cultures and perspectives and to focus on what truly drives impact for both customers and colleagues.
Outside of work, Tyler serves on the junior board of City Harvest, where he has gained experience with nonprofit governance, volunteer engagement, and fundraising in support of food rescue and hunger relief in New York City. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, with a major in Computer Science and minors in Engineering Management Systems and Statistics & Machine Learning.
Tyler’s interests include running, traveling, cooking, and playing chess and other board games, and he enjoys bringing people together around food, games, and shared experiences.