As Facebook races towards 500 million users and $1 billion in revenue this year, the company has begun to hire increasingly more employees to fill the offices the company has begun to open in places like Austin, Texas and India, among others. We thought it would be useful to look at who was hired at the company in the past week or so.

Here’s a list we complied using data from LinkedIn, in alphabetical order people joining the Facebook team:

• Jimena Almendares: An MBA intern at Facebook; formerly worked as a product marketing intern at Eventbrite, senior strategy consultant at Capgemini Consulting Ernst & Young, and was a partner at JV Especialistas en Comercio Internacional.
• Audrey Bonneville: Marketing communications manager at Facebook, formerly worked as a Marcom & CRM manager at Microsoft, CRM Manager at MSN Finance and was responsible for marketing at Fidélisation at Maximiles.
• Charles Dowd: Manager of platform operations – EMEA at Facebook. Co-founder of ticket truck, worked as an adviser at Edenbee Limited and was an executive at Travelonomy.
• Justin Edmund: Product designer intern at Facebook, formerly a computer consultant at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Ezwan Aizat Abdullah Faiz: Software engineer at Facebook. Was a head developer at UreakaLabs, previously worked as a software engineer for QuebConnect and YouthSays.
• Alberto Fittarelli: Fraud specialist at Facebook, formerly of PayPal as: a risk management analyst in the AUP department, a compliance analyst and a project team member of “Agent Insight.”
• Karen Gaeta: HRIS coordinator, formerly worked as a staffing representative at Brocade, an HRIS analyst at Foundry Networks and a senior human resources administrator at Credence Systems.
• Scott Hartley: Facebook summer associate who worked as a researcher at Harvard Law School, research assistant at the United Nations and as a product specialist at Google.
• Dhiraj Kumar: Strategist of global customer marketing, previously vice president of client service and telecom practice at The Nielsen Company, senior consultant at Deloitte Consulting and a product development manager at UTSarcom.
• Trace Przybylowicz: Account manager; worked at Saatchi & Saatchi as an account supervisor and account executive, and also as an account executive at Campbell-Ewald.
• Fawad Rehoie: A network engineer who previously held a similar position at Yahoo! Search Marketing (in a senior position), Yahoo! and Exodous Communications.
• Andrew Vandever: Site reliability operations technician who previously he worked as a technical trainer at One Course Source, an information systems technician at Fry’s Electronics and a technical advisor at Action Impact Missions.
• Eric Wahlgren: Customer content manager, previously an assistant managing editor at AOL, managing editor at The Journal of Life Sciences an an editor at Red Herring.