Jane Street Status Report

  • Yaron Minsky Jane Street
September 15, 2012 10:00 - 10:30 AM

Abstract

Jane Street is a proprietary trading company that has been using OCaml as its primary development language for nearly a decade. In those years, both the firm and the firm's technology stack have grown and matured. This talk will describe that evolution, and discuss the role that OCaml plays at Jane Street today.

Yaron Minsky

Yaron Minsky obtained his BA in mathematics from Princeton and his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, focusing on distributed systems. In 2003, he joined Jane Street where he founded the quantitative research group there. Since 2005 Yaron has managed the technology group at Jane Street, and has been involved in both research and software development efforts across the firm.