Nektarios Leontiadis
Security Engineering Manager, Insider Trust at Meta
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNektarios Leontiadis is a security engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing detection systems and empirical research frameworks to protect large-scale platforms and users. Currently managing Meta’s Insider Trust team, he builds instrumentation, data pipelines, and experimentation practices that surface insider risk and enable high-impact investigations. His background spans threat research, threat intelligence, and Trust & Safety leadership at Meta, grounded in a PhD-focused career studying the economics and measurement of online crime. He also teaches a cyber forensics capstone at Carnegie Mellon, reflecting a commitment to translating research into practice and mentoring the next generation. Notably, he blends deep empirical analysis with operational security—turning complex data sources into reliable, production-ready defenses inside one of the world’s largest tech companies.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information systems at Athens University of Economics and BusinessDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Engineering and Public Policy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Greek
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
facebook/ThreatExchange
Mar 2016 - Mar 2019
Trust & Safety tools for working together to fight digital harms.
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years
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