{"id":647099,"date":"2013-03-15T17:58:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=621225"},"modified":"2013-03-15T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:58:24","slug":"facebook-names-schroepfer-as-its-new-cto-as-infrastructure-takes-center-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647099","title":{"rendered":"Facebook names Schroepfer as its new CTO, as infrastructure takes center stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook has appointed Mike Schroepfer as its new chief technology officer, AllThingsD reported<\/a> Friday. Schroepfer has been vice president of engineering since 2008. Before coming to Facebook, he was vice president of engineering at Mozilla.<\/p>\n

Schroepfer<\/a> is keenly aware of Facebook’s hardware and software needs. In 2009, a few months before Facebook opened up<\/a> about building its own data centers, he spoke about Facebook’s uniquely high user demand, saying<\/a> that users were spending 8 billion minutes on the site a day at the time. Since then, he has worked on launching the Timeline product<\/a> and adding a Facebook engineering New York outpost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Facebook’s Jay Parikh, who spoke at our Structure:Europe conference last year<\/a>, has also made a mark on Facebook’s infrastructure improvements, such as cold storage<\/a> and abundant use of flash memory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Facebook’s previous CTO, Bret Taylor, said<\/a> last June that he would leave the company. It’s not clear yet who will take up the title Schroepfer is vacating.<\/p>\n

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