Meta is handing its infrastructure organization to Dave Brown, a former Amazon Web Services executive who joined the company this year. Longtime leader Santosh Janardhan will remain during the transition and advise Meta Compute before an expected departure next year. The handover covers the infrastructure supporting Meta’s expanding artificial intelligence work.
Meta, the technology company, confirmed that Santosh Janardhan will hand its infrastructure organization to Dave Brown.[1], [2]
A company spokesperson verified the leadership change. Janardhan is expected to stay through the transition, advise the Meta Compute computing-capacity initiative and leave next year. The handover concerns an organization responsible for data centres, networks and computing resources used across the company.[1]
Brown joined Meta as a vice president this year after 19 years at Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud computing business. His experience includes compute and artificial intelligence infrastructure, and his responsibilities at Amazon included cloud and machine learning services. He will now lead Meta’s infrastructure organization as the company expands its AI computing work.[1]
Janardhan joined Meta in 2009 and helped oversee the growth of its data centres, networks and computing infrastructure. He also held a shared engineering leadership role alongside his infrastructure responsibilities. His continuing advisory work for Meta Compute, where he worked alongside Dina Powell McCormick and Daniel Gross, forms part of the transition. Brown may also inherit the shared engineering leadership responsibility; that part of the handover remains unclear.[1]
