Dave Brown to succeed Santosh Janardhan as Meta infrastructure chief
Janardhan will leave the leadership role in early 2027 and move into an advisory position as chief technology officer of Meta Compute.
Meta has lined up Dave Brown to replace infrastructure chief and engineering co-head Santosh Janardhan in early 2027, according to Bloomberg, which cited an internal memo. The memo offered no explanation for Janardhan’s decision.
Janardhan will remain through the first quarter to support the transition before becoming an adviser as Meta Compute’s chief technology officer. Brown arrived at Meta after nearly two decades with Amazon Web Services, where his responsibilities included computing and machine learning services.
The succession comes amid Meta’s AI spending push. The company expects capital expenditure of up to US$145 billion and has about US$825 billion committed for the future, mainly for data centers and cloud computing. Meta has also considered making unused computing capacity available for rent.
Since joining Facebook in 2009, Janardhan has helped develop its networks, data centers and custom chips. In January, he took a joint leadership role at Meta Compute with president Dina Powell McCormick and Daniel Gross, planning the company’s access to AI computing power. Separately, policy chief Joel Kaplan is scheduled to depart in 2027, with Powell McCormick assuming some of his duties.
