Photo: Jay Parikh runs Facebook's infrastructure (Credit: Facebook)The Man Who Keeps Facebook Humming (Q&A) -- CNet
Jay Parikh is a key person responsible for making sure Facebook remains up and running each day.
Jay Parikh is happy to never get a call from Mark Zuckerberg. Why? It means he's doing his job well. As the vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, Parikh is charged with the enormous task of keeping the machines that run Facebook operating with as few hiccups as possible. As Facebook now approaches 1 billion users, and continues to roll out more features that connect people every which way, that challenge grows. Which is why Parikh, who this morning gave the keynote at the Velocity conference in Silicon Valley, has been hard at work building out Facebook's back-end technology and data centers.
I met up with Parikh at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., and discussed a range of topics. Here's an edited version:
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My Comment: I suspect that he has Mark Zuckerberg's direct cell phone number .... and vice versa.
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