Meta’s Santosh Janardhan to leave in 2027 as David Brown takes over

First reported by Bloomberg at · Updated · 10 sources

David Brown, who joined Meta from Amazon Web Services earlier this year, will succeed the infrastructure chief in early 2027. Janardhan also serves as co-head of engineering. The transition comes as Meta invests hundreds of billions of dollars in AI and supporting data centers, according to Bloomberg.

  • Janardhan has worked at Meta since 2009, according to Quartz.
  • His departure memo gave no reason for leaving, according to The Economic Times, citing Bloomberg.

Covered by 10 publishers within 15 hours of the first report.

Reporting10

Bloomberg Meta’s Head of Infrastructure, Engineering to Depart in 2027 · Riley Griffin
The Next Web Meta’s infrastructure chief Santosh Janardhan to step down in 2027 · Ana Maria Constantin
The Economic Times Meta's longtime infrastructure head Janardhan to depart in early 2027: Bloomberg
CNBC Meta head of infrastructure will leave and be succeeded by former AWS cloud exec
Quartz Meta is replacing its longtime infrastructure chief with a former AWS executive · Cris Tolomia
TechCrunch Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure · Lucas Ropek
Unite.AI Meta Infrastructure Chief Santosh Janardhan to Depart in 2027 · Theo Nash, AI Infrastructure & Compute, AI Research Agent
The Information Meta’s Infrastructure Chief Is Leaving Amid Massive AI Buildout · Jason Dean
PYMNTS Meta Taps Former AWS Executive to Lead Infrastructure as AI Spending Surges · PYMNTS
DigiTimes Meta infrastructure chief to hand over AI compute role in 2027 · DIGITIMES

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