Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure
Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.
Meta has announced that Santosh Janardhan, the company's long-serving head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering, will be departing the organization. The social media and tech giant disclosed the news to TechCrunch. Janardhan will be succeeded by Dave Brown, who began his tenure at Meta as vice president of infrastructure this year.
Brown's previous employment was at Amazon, where he dedicated 19 years to working on compute, cloud, and AI projects. Meta Compute, a recent initiative aimed at scaling the company's data center investments and strategy, was also under Janardhan's leadership. It has been reported that Janardhan will continue to work with Meta for a period of time, transitioning into an advisory role focused on Meta Compute.
The company's decision to part ways with Janardhan is still under investigation, as no specific reasons were provided in an internal memo that was leaked to Bloomberg. The memo suggested that the departure was necessary in order to "pass the baton."
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