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Meta's longtime head of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan will step down, TechCrunch reported on November 11, 2026, after joining the company in 2009. Meta told TechCrunch that Dave Brown, who joined earlier this year as vice president of infrastructure after 19 years at Amazon, will replace him. Janardhan is also co-head of engineering and was previously tasked with leading Meta Compute, the initiative to scale the company's data center investments and strategy. Meta said Janardhan will stay on for a transition and move into an advisory role on Meta Compute, and he is expected to leave next year. Bloomberg first reported the departure, citing an internal memo, and the memo reportedly cited the need to "pass the baton." Neither the memo nor Meta gave a reason for the decision, and Meta did not immediately respond to TechCrunch's request for clarity. TechCrunch noted that Meta's infrastructure investment has grown sharply as it competes with rivals in the AI race.