Edward spent most of his adult life trying to build reusable code in imperative languages. He converted to Haskell in 2006 while searching for better building materials. Edward served as the founding chair for the Haskell Core Libraries Committee and continues to collaborate with hundreds of other developers on over three hundred functional programming projects on Github. He previously wrote software for stock exchanges at Standard & Poors, served as a researcher at MIRI, and ran Groq's Software Engineering team. As Positron's CTO, today he sets long-term software, architecture, and optimization strategy.