- Facebook vice president of engineering Jay Parikh announced in a post that he will be stepping down from the company
Facebook vice president of engineering Jay Parikh announced in a post that he will be stepping down from the company. Parikh has been working at Facebook since November 2009. Before that, he worked as the SVP of Engineering at Operations at Ning, VP of Engineering at Akamai, Sr. Consulting Engineer at NetGravity (DoubleClick), and as a consultant at Andersen Consulting.
Parikh is known for helping Facebook build its technical infrastructure across a wide range of data centers. Parikh did not specify what he is going to be working on next. However, he will be transitioning the role over the next few months.
“The past 10 years has undoubtedly redefined my expectations on what it means to scale and grow. When I first joined Facebook back in 2009, our entire engineering team sat in one building all on one floor, and we were buying off-the-shelf servers and renting data center space. We supported a few hundred million people mostly using the facebook.com website. I don’t think any of us could have imagined that we would now be supporting a global community of almost 3 billion people using our family of apps mostly on mobile phones,” wrote Parikh in a Facebook post. “We have also built infrastructure to help boost economies around the world, including the 140 million+ businesses that use our platform every month. These numbers are massive because our scale is massive – and it would not be possible without our Facebook team and their hard work day in, day out.”
Going forward, Facebook Vice President of Engineering David Mortenson will be succeeding Parikh as the head of Facebook’s infrastructure team. Mortenson had joined Facebook in 2011.
