Meet The Indian Girl Who Was Facebook's First Female Engineer
In an urge to pursue her passions and dreams, Ruchi left Facebook in 2010. According to Ruchi, “I no longer ‘felt inspired’ by the work I was doing at Facebook.” So she set up her own company Cove, with her husband Aditya Agarwal, who was also an early Facebooker.
In February 2012, in order to own her talent, Dropbox, the cloud storage service brought Cove and made Ruchi their VP of operations.
“We’ve known Ruchi and Aditya for awhile and have been longtime admirers of their work, there are not too many people in this world who not only think big but have also created things that hundreds of millions of people use,” told Dropbox’s CEO Drew Houston to TechCrunch about the Cove acquire.
From the first female engineer of Facebook to the VP of Dropbox at the age of 30, Ruchi has an advice to the aspiring women community:”My philosophy is that you should go full force ahead until you are ready for the next step. A lot of women decide to take a back seat in their professional careers even before they are pregnant or are ready to have children.”
