Facebook’s Vice President of Engineering Jay Parikh on Tuesday said he is leaving the company, joining a long list of executives who have left the company over the past few years. Parikh was considered to be instrumental to creating the data center infrastructure on which the company builds its numerous apps and services.
“I have some bittersweet news to share,” Parikh wrote in a Facebook post. “It’s time for me to step out of Facebook to explore what’s next.
He joined Facebook in 2009, according to his LinkedIn profile. “A lot of what we’ve achieved over the past eleven years just wouldn’t have been possible without you,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a comment on Parikh’s post. “I don’t think we even had a data center when you joined, and now we share our designs so the rest of the world can catch up!”
Facebook in the past three years dealt with Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018 and the launch of four separate antitrust-focused investigations into the company in 2019.
Source: Economic Times
