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Title: Head of Global Infrastructure Company: Meta Industry: Technology

Santosh heads up global infrastructure at Meta, overseeing the hardware, networks, software and data centres that power Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and all other Meta platforms used by billions worldwide. His career in managing largescale systems began with leadership roles in the database and storage teams at PayPal, followed by similar positions at Google and YouTube, where he developed expertise in handling massive data volumes. As such, Santosh has had a hand in building and maintaining some of the most important platforms in the history of the internet. He joined Meta in 2009, during the company’ s explosive growth phase when Facebook was adding a million users daily. Since then, he has been instrumental in scaling infrastructure from start-up origins to global dominance. His expertise is critical to Meta’ s ambitious expansion plans, particularly as the company undertakes one of the most ambitious data centre buildouts ever seen in the industry to support AI infrastructure.

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