Yaron Minsky joined Jane Street in 2003, where he started
out developing quantitative trading strategies, going on
to found the firm's quantitative research group. He
introduced OCaml to the company and managed the transition
to using OCaml for all of its core infrastructure, turning
Jane Street into the world's largest industrial user of
the language. In the meantime, he's been involved in many
different aspects of Jane Street's technology stack,
including trading and risk systems, developer tools, and
user-interface toolkits. Yaron has lectured, blogged and
written about programming for years, with articles
published in
Communications of the ACM and the Journal of
Functional Programming.
Anil Madhavapeddy is Professor of Planetary Computing at the
Department of Computer Science and Technology in the
University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Pembroke
College. He has worked in industry (NetApp, Citrix, Intel),
academia (Cambridge, Imperial, UCLA) and startups
(XenSource, Unikernel Systems, Docker) over the past two
decades. At Cambridge, he is a member of the Energy and Environment
Group which delves into the intersection of technology and
conservation. He is a long-time maintainer on
open-source projects ranging from OCaml, OpenBSD, Xen and
Docker, and a seasoned entrepreneur who advises companies
and foundations on technology strategy.
