{
  "id": 19549040,
  "title": "Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/meta-is-losing-its-longtime-head-of-infrastructure",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-11T20:12:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechCrunch",
    "slug": "techcrunch",
    "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/11/meta-is-losing-its-longtime-head-of-infrastructure/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.\"",
  "summary": "Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Leaked memo: Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering Santosh Janardhan plans to leave in early 2027; he will be succeeded by Dave Brown (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/leaked-memo-metas-head-of-infrastructure-and-co-head-of-engineering",
        "published": "2026-11-11T16:35:05.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CNBC",
        "title": "Meta head of infrastructure will leave and be succeeded by former AWS cloud exec",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/meta-head-of-infrastructure-will-leave-and-be-succeeded-by-former-aws",
        "published": "2026-11-11T18:57:38.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}