Meta’s head of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan steps down, and former Amazon compute executive Dave Brown takes over the role

by | Nov 11, 2026 | Latest E-commerce News & Updates

Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering, is stepping down after joining the company in 2009, according to an internal memo reported by Bloomberg and confirmed by Meta. Dave Brown will replace him after Meta hired him this year as vice president of infrastructure, following 19 years at Amazon working on computing, cloud, and AI. Janardhan will stay on through the transition and advise Meta Compute, the data center buildout he was put in charge of earlier this year, before an expected exit next year.

Paul Drecksler is the founder and editor of Shopifreaks, covering the most important stories in e-commerce.

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