The Changing Craft of Programming with John Crepezzi
John Crepezzi has spent his career building tools for other programmers—at Tumblr, at Square, and then at GitHub, where he worked on the mer...
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Signals and Threads
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers who are working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable h...
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20 of 33 episodesLearning Goals and the Goals of Learning: Teaching in the Age of AI with Aaron Bauer
Aaron Bauer is a software engineer and one of Jane Street's few developer educators—a role that splits his time between writing code and tea...
Wrestling the world into rows with Eric Mannes
"Alternative data" is Wall Street's name for information that comes from non-traditional sources: satellite photos of parking lots, credit c...
Building a data warehouse from scratch with Jacob Baskin
In university Jacob Baskin studied at the intersection of computer science and economics, thinking about systems that incentivize people to...
The Network as a Program with Nate Foster
Nate Foster is a professor at EPFL in Switzerland in the Networked Systems Abstractions Lab, and a visiting researcher at Jane Street on the...
Why Testing is Hard and How to Fix it with Will Wilson
Will Wilson is the founder and CEO of Antithesis, which is trying to change how people test software. The idea is that you run your applicat...
Why ML Needs a New Programming Language with Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner is the creator of LLVM and led the development of the Swift language at Apple. With Mojo, he’s taking another big swing: How d...
The Thermodynamics of Trading with Daniel Pontecorvo
Daniel Pontecorvo runs the “physical engineering” team at Jane Street. This group blends architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical en...
Building Tools for Traders with Ian Henry
Ian Henry started his career at Warby Parker and Trello, building consumer apps for millions of users. Now he writes high-performance tools...
Finding Signal in the Noise with In Young Cho
In Young Cho thought she was going to be a doctor but fell into a trading internship at Jane Street. Now she helps lead the research group’s...
The Uncertain Art of Accelerating ML Models with Sylvain Gugger
Sylvain Gugger is a former math teacher who fell into machine learning via a MOOC and became an expert in the low-level performance details...
Solving Puzzles in Production with Liora Friedberg
Liora Friedberg is a Production Engineer at Jane Street with a background in economics and computer science. In this episode, Liora and Ron...
From the Lab to the Trading Floor with Erin Murphy
Erin Murphy is Jane Street’s first UX designer, and before that, she worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory building user interfaces for...
Performance Engineering on Hard Mode with Andrew Hunter
Andrew Hunter makes code really, really fast. Before joining Jane Street, he worked for seven years at Google on multithreaded architecture,...
A Poet's Guide to Product Management with Peter Bogart-Johnson
Peter Bogart-Johnson was one of Jane Street’s first program managers, and helped bring the art of PMing—where that “P” variously stands for...
The Future of Programming with Richard Eisenberg
Richard Eisenberg is one of the core maintainers of Haskell. He recently joined Jane Street’s Tools and Compilers team, where he hacks on th...
Swapping the Engine Out of a Moving Race Car with Ella Ehrlich
Ella Ehrlich has been a developer at Jane Street for close to a decade. During much of that time, she’s worked on Gord, one of Jane Street’s...
State Machine Replication, and Why You Should Care with Doug Patti
Doug Patti is a developer in Jane Street’s Client-Facing Tech team, where he works on a system called Concord that undergirds Jane Street’s...
Memory Management with Stephen Dolan
Stephen Dolan works on Jane Street’s Tools and Compilers team where he focuses on the OCaml compiler. In this episode, Stephen and Ron take...
What Is an Operating System? with Anil Madhavapeddy
Anil Madhavapeddy is an academic, author, engineer, entrepreneur, and OCaml aficionado. In this episode, Anil and Ron consider the evolving...