Pooja Meera Chopra

Overview

Based in Atlanta. I work on embedded systems at Gather Learning. Built the experimentation framework 33 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: PepsiCo and Google. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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Experience

1. Staff Embedded Engineer

   Feb 2025 - Present
   Gather Learning · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
   • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 24% in two quarters.
   • Built the experimentation framework 29 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 386ms to 147ms.
2. Senior Embedded Engineer

   Jun 2021 - Feb 2025
   PepsiCo · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
   • Shipped 26 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
   • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 30% in two quarters.
3. Senior Embedded Engineer

   Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
   Google · 1 yr 3 mo · Contract · Atlanta, GA
   • Grew the firmware team from 3 to 33 engineers.
   • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 612ms to 147ms.
4. Senior Embedded Engineer

   Dec 2016 - Mar 2020
   Johnson & Johnson · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
   • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 665ms to 139ms.
   • Grew the firmware team from 5 to 22 engineers.
5. Embedded Engineer

   Nov 2013 - Dec 2016
   LinkedIn · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
   • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 31 a week to 3.
   • Wrote the hardware bring-up service that now handles 44 million requests a day.

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Education

1. University of Florida

   BS, Electronics and Communication
   2009 - 2013