Vice President of Facebook’s engineering department Jay Parikh on Tuesday announced that he is leaving the company. He is the newest addition to the long list of executives who left the company over the past years. Parikh, who was considered to be instrumental in creating the data center infrastructure of the company will be succeeded by David Mortenson as the new Vice President for Engineering.
Thanking him for his contribution at Facebook towards building the engineering infrastructure for the company, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “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.”
“I think the most important thing you built here though was our culture — not just around technical excellence in infra and eng, but for the company as a whole. It’s been wonderful watching you grow as a leader and I’m looking forward to seeing what problems you go solve next. Thanks for everything,” he added.
Sharing the news on Facebook, Parikh wrote, “I have some bittersweet news to share. It’s time for me to step out of Facebook to explore what’s next.”
According to his LinkedIn profile, he joined Facebook in 2009. In reply to his post, Zuckerberg commented, “A lot of what we’ve achieved over the past eleven years just wouldn’t have been possible without you.”
Parikh’s resignation comes at a time when Facebook has been in hot waters for the past three years. They have been accused of aiding the 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.
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