Ed Nightingale
Vice President
Systems and Foundations Organization
Microsoft Research
About
Ed is currently a Vice President at Microsoft Research Redmond running the Systems and Foundations Organization.
Ed has a wide range of previous experience as an individual contributor, manager, director and vice president overseeing teams ranging from 5 to hundreds of engineers. Ed enjoys being technically involved and he is passionate about helping grow employees in their own career path. Ed is deeply familiar with agile engineering software development practices, and he really enjoys building large-scale systems.
Ed Nightingale is also a systems researcher and software engineer. Ed has authored papers in top systems conferences such as OSDI and SOSP. He has co-authored 20 conference and journal publications, has won 7 best paper awards, and even helped to set the world record in disk-to-disk sorting (http://sortbenchmark.org). He was Program Co-Chair for OSDI 2023. Finally, he is a Distinguished Member of the ACM.