Case Study: DarwinBox achieves readiness for 10x growth and 40% cost reduction with MongoDB Atlas

DarwinBox Evolves HR SaaS Platform and Prepares for 10x Growth with MongoDB Atlas

DarwinBox is an HR SaaS company that grew rapidly from a startup to a top-four HR brand in India, supporting over 200,000 employees and targeting 10x growth. That success strained its infrastructure: the team needed a highly flexible, non‑relational data model to support broad, customizable HR services, but in‑house database management, backups, scaling and monitoring were becoming costly and time‑consuming.

DarwinBox migrated its MongoDB workloads to MongoDB Atlas on AWS, gaining a fully managed, scalable platform with better tooling and support. The move cut database costs by 40%, enabled 80% faster data restores via queryable snapshots, improved availability and data resilience, and simplified cross‑region scaling—positioning the company to accelerate product development and pursue international expansion.

Darwinbox

Chaitanya Peddi

Co-founder and Head of Product