Ruchi Sanghvi
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| Born |
20 January 1982 Pune, India |
| Residence | India |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University - CMU |
| Website | Facebook Profile |
Ruchi Sanghvi (born January 20, 1982) is an Indian computer engineer. She was the first female engineer hired by Facebook.
Sanghvi transitioned from engineering to product management at Facebook, where she oversaw Facebook Platform and News Feed. She was responsible for the company’s Platform product strategy and new product initiatives. Sanghvi was an early engineer at Facebook and one of the primary developers for News Feed. Prior to Facebook, she was a software engineer in the Real Time Communication Group at Oracle. Sanghvi holds a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
In late 2010, she quit Facebook and in 2011, she started her own company Cove, with two other co-founders. The company was sold to Dropbox in 2012 and Sanghvi joined Dropbox as VP of Operations. She left Dropbox in October 2013.
Sanghvi was raised in Pune, India. When she was young, she intended to join her father's business after completing her studies. Sanghvi pursued her bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
After graduating Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, Sanghvi initially planned to work in New York City, but says that she was frightened by the small cubicle size. She decided instead to move to Silicon Valley where her former CMU colleague Aditya Agarwal, whom she was dating, worked. She got a job at the Oracle Corporation.
In 2005, Sanghvi and Agarwal both started working at Facebook. Sanghvi was Facebook's first female engineer.
Sanghvi was one of the main people working on the first version of Facebook's news feed product, first launched in September 2006, and she wrote the blog post announcing its launch. The original news feed was an algorithmically generated and constantly refreshing summary of updates about the activities of one's friends. The concept was relatively new at the time, with Twitter having launched only a few months in advance.
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