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Aparna Ramani

Observer · DISC type ci
VP of Engineering at Meta
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Aparna Ramani is the VP of Engineering at Meta, where she leads the AI, Data, and Developer Infrastructure teams. Her responsibilities include managing exabyte-scale data systems, developing open-source frameworks like PyTorch, and building the large-scale training infrastructure for models such as Llama. She holds an MS from Arizona State University.

Growing up in India, Aparna was the first woman in her family to study STEM and pursue a career abroad, breaking from traditional expectations with strong encouragement from her mother. She is passionate about the power of data to help people and businesses, a focus that has defined her career.

She was the first woman in her family to study STEM and rebel against traditional expectations.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
VP of Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Aparna shows up

Curious
Value Driven
Assertive

They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They often ask many questions and rely heavily on information and documentation.

Priorities

Topics Aparna cares about

AI at Scale
Frequently gives keynotes on the challenges of building and scaling infrastructure for massive AI models, including managing over a million GPUs and developing new cooling technologies.
Open Source AI
Champions Meta's open-source contributions, including PyTorch and the Llama models, believing they foster an ecosystem of innovation beyond a single company.
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Career

Work history

5-2016
VP of Engineering
Meta
2-2011 - 4-2016
Sr. Director, Engineering
Cloudera
9-2007 - 2-2011
Sr. Engineering Manager/Principal Development Manager
Yahoo! and Microsoft
9-1998 - 10-2005
Senior Software Engineer
Fujitsu Network Communications
5-1995 - 8-1996
Software Engineer
Philips, Singapore
In the press

Media appearances

Leadership at Meta: Aparna Ramani. Featured in Tech at Meta (Facebook)
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Aparna Ramani discusses the future of AI infrastructure. Featured in Engineering.FB.com
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Education
8-1996 - 12-1997
MS
Arizona State University
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Bharathiar University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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