Edward Skrod
Chief Technology Officer at Nighthawk Management Group
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolEdward Skrod is a technology leader and founder who combines enterprise-scale software engineering at Microsoft with hands-on investment leadership as CTO and co-founder of Nighthawk Management Group. He architects AI-driven tooling for investment screening, dashboarding, and risk management to power a momentum-focused hedge fund while maintaining a senior engineering role building widely used developer tooling like the Visual Studio Installer. With 25+ years of personal investing experience and a dual academic background in Computer Science and Philosophy (magna cum laude), he blends quantitative rigor with strategic thinking. His career spans embedded and reliability-focused systems at Thales to large-scale consumer download services at Microsoft, demonstrating a knack for turning messy operational data into automated, reliable workflows. Based in Florida, he is passionate about the intersection of AI, product-quality engineering, and disciplined portfolio construction.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Florida State UniversityBachelor's degree, Philosophy, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University Harriet L. Wilkes Honors CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (132)
nuget10
visual-studio-mac10
windows10
csproj10
visual-studio10
fsharp10
wpf10
continuous-testing10
githubactions10
dotnet10
sdk10
visual-studio-extension10
visual-studio-for-mac10
powershell10
winget10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
edwardskrod/winget-pkgs
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository
Contributions:772 pushes, 507 branches in 2 years 4 months
windows-desktopmdtwindows-package-managerwindowsmanifest
edwardskrod/Visual-Studio-Administrative-Templates
Oct 2022 - Apr 2024
Contains the administrative template defining the Visual Studio functionality that can be centrally managed by group policy
Contributions:18 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 6 months
policygroup-policygroup-byadministrativevisual-studio
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