# Meta Infrastructure Chief to Take Advisory Role at Meta Compute By Sonny Jang Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/people/55139 Published: 2026-11-12T08:44:48.000Z Updated: 2026-11-12T08:44:48.000Z Section: People > Santosh Janardhan will stay during a leadership transition and is expected to leave Meta in 2027. Dave Brown is slated to succeed him. Meta said Santosh Janardhan, its longtime infrastructure chief and co-head of engineering, will stay during a leadership transition and move into an advisory role with Meta Compute. His departure is expected in 2027. Meta tasked Janardhan earlier this year with leading Meta Compute, an initiative to scale the company’s data center investments and strategy as it builds computing capacity for artificial intelligence work. Dave Brown, Meta’s vice president of infrastructure, is slated to succeed Janardhan. Brown joined Meta earlier this year after 19 years at Amazon, where his work focused on compute, cloud and AI. Janardhan joined Meta in 2009. The [succession plan and expected 2027 departure]() were covered earlier by TokenPost. ## Links in this article - [succession plan and expected 2027 departure](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/people/55028)