Surendra Verma, left, and J.R. Tipton are Facebook engineering managers in the company's Seattle office. They are on the storage team charged with building the tools to store the billions of photos and videos uploaded to Facebook and Instagram. (Alan Berner/Seattle Times/TNS)
SEATTLE: More than 2 billion people log into Facebook every month. Every day, the social-media crowd uploads billions of photos, calls up hundreds of millions of hours of video, and fires off a prodigious flurry of likes and comments. Somebody has to store that slice of humanity's digital record.
Much of that task falls to Surendra Verma, a Seattle engineer who for more than 20 years has been building software that files away and retrieves large volumes of data.
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