14 Facts About Ruchi Sanghvi

Ruchi Sanghvi was born on 20 January 1982 and is an Indian computer engineer and businesswoman.

Ruchi Sanghvi was the first female engineer hired by Facebook.

Ruchi Sanghvi was sold to Dropbox in 2012 and Sanghvi joined Dropbox as VP of Operations.

In 2016, Sanghvi established South Park Commons, a residential and professional tech space that functions similarly to a hackerspace.

Ruchi Sanghvi pursued her bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Ruchi 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.

In late 2010, Ruchi Sanghvi left Facebook and in 2011, co-founded a stealth collaboration startup called Cove along with Aditya Agarwal.

Ruchi Sanghvi later became the Vice President of Operations at Dropbox, managing product, marketing, communications and other functions.

In October 2013, Ruchi Sanghvi left Dropbox, but continued to retain an advisory role at the company.

In 2015, Ruchi Sanghvi founded South Park Commons, a technical community and co-working space located in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco.

Ruchi Sanghvi serves as both co-head of the SPC community and general partner in the SPC Fund.

Ruchi Sanghvi is on the board of UCSF and was previously on Paytm's board of directors.

Ruchi Sanghvi is married to Aditya Agarwal, who was her colleague at Carnegie Mellon University and later at Facebook, Cove, and Dropbox.

Ruchi Sanghvi was awarded a TechFellow "Best Engineering Leadership Award" in 2011 for her work at Facebook.