Prior to joining Fenwick, Pinar was a patent agent in the IP counseling and patents group at an Am Law 100 firm in Palo Alto. Since 2011, she has managed patent portfolios of biotechnology companies in a wide range of technical fields, including gene sequencing, gene synthesis, microfluidics, gene therapy, personalized medicine, bioinformatics, and machine learning.

Pinar received her J.D. from Stanford Law School, her Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of California San Francisco and her B.S. in molecular biology and genetics and physics from Bogazici University, as class valedictorian. While at Stanford Law School, she was the recipient of the Gerald Gunther Prize for Outstanding Performance in Intellectual Property and the John Hart Ely Prize for Outstanding Performance in Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law. At UCSF, she was the recipient of Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship.