Ruchi Sanghvi

Pioneering female engineer who shaped social media's future through innovative tech leadership

Ruchi Sanghvi (born 1980) revolutionized social media architecture as Facebook's first female engineer and Director of Engineering. Her work on News Feed scalability and security frameworks directly enabled the platform's exponential growth from 1 million to over 1 billion users. At Parse, she created the first mobile backend-as-a-service, empowering developers worldwide. Her 2013 TED Talk 'The Future of Social Media' remains influential in discussing platform ethics. Sanghvi's open source contributions to Cassandra database and leadership at DropBox continue shaping tech infrastructure. She co-founded Cove, addressing gender imbalance in tech venture capital through innovative funding models.