Nadia is a lead engineer at Meta Platforms in the Instagram Product Performance team working on automating all aspects of reliability, quality and performance. Previously she was leading the team that created Virtual Alpha, a population of realistic bots that the apps are released to first to get early reliability and performance signal. Virtual Alpha is used today as part of the release process for most major Meta apps. Before joining Meta, Nadia worked at JP Morgan Chase in Cyber Security and Information Architecture. She was also a researcher on automated software testing and malware detection at UCL and the University of Luxembourg.