Ruchi Sanghvi (born January 20, 1982) was the first female engineer hired by the social-networking website Facebook.

Ruchi Sanghvi was the Principal Product Manager at Facebook, where she oversaw Facebook Platform and News Feed.

She was responsible for the company’s Platform product strategy and new product initiatives.

Ruchi 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.

Ruchi 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 shutdown and the team was hired by Dropbox in 2012.

Women in Business, Marketing, Futurism, Technology, Digital Marketing, Facebook, Communication, Information Technology, Business, Innovation, Business Leadership, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Digital Business, Leadership, Fast Company,