Meta infrastructure chief to leave in 2027, AWS veteran succeeds

Meta's head of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan will leave in 2027 after joining in 2009, and David Brown, a former Amazon Web Services senior vice president who joined Meta in July, will succeed him and serve as chief technical officer of the Meta Compute initiative.

Why it matters: The handover puts a new leader in charge of Meta's data centre buildout as the company guides to 135 billion to 145 billion dollars of capital spending this year and investors scrutinise the cost of its AI infrastructure.

Data as of CNBC report of November 11, 2026, read in full via the estate browser route, based on Janardhan's internal memo of the same day; Bloomberg News first reported the transition, per CNBC. Developing item.

Meta’s head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering, Santosh Janardhan, will leave the company in 2027, he told staff in an internal memo on Wednesday reported by CNBC. Janardhan, who joined Meta in 2009, said it was time to pass the baton, and that he will support his successor through the first quarter of 2027 as part of the transition.

David Brown, a former senior vice president at Amazon Web Services who joined Meta in July, will formally lead the infrastructure organisation and serve as chief technical officer of the Meta Compute initiative. The change puts Meta’s data centre expansion under newer leadership while the company expects capital spending of 135 billion to 145 billion dollars this year, a programme under growing investor scrutiny after a quarter of negative free cash flow.

Meta infrastructure chief to leave in 2027, AWS veteran succeeds

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