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Jane Street Visit website › Technology · EN · 34 episodes · latest 2026-11-13

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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 hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly. You can find transcripts along with related links on our website at signalsandthreads.com.

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  1. 2026-11-13 · 1 hr 34 min · Episode 32

    Chloe Casale was planning to be an auto mechanic before taking an intro CS class on a bet. After a stint as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir, Chloe came to Jane Street with no background in OCaml or finance. Now…

  2. 2026-10-16 · 1 hr 48 min · Episode 31

    John Crepezzi has spent his career building tools for other programmers—at Tumblr, at Square, and then at GitHub, where he worked on the merge queue and the early versions of Codespaces. He came to Jane Street to build…

  3. 2026-09-23 · 1 hr 37 min · Episode 30

    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 teaching other people how to write it. Before joining the firm, he taught computer…

  4. 2026-09-02 · 1 hr 25 min · Episode 29

    "Alternative data" is Wall Street's name for information that comes from non-traditional sources: satellite photos of parking lots, credit card panels, weather forecasts. Eric Mannes has spent over a decade at Jane…

  5. 2026-06-24 · 1 hr 34 min · Episode 28

    In university Jacob Baskin studied at the intersection of computer science and economics, thinking about systems that incentivize people to express their true preferences. He put those ideas into practice at Google,…

  6. 2026-06-01 · 1 hr 35 min · Episode 27

    Nate Foster is a professor at EPFL in Switzerland in the Networked Systems Abstractions Lab, and a visiting researcher at Jane Street on the Networking team. In this episode, he and Ron consider what happens when you…

  7. 2026-03-17 · 1 hr 48 min · Episode 26

    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 application inside a special hypervisor environment that intelligently (and…

  8. 2025-09-03 · 1 hr 13 min · Episode 25

    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 do you make the process of getting the full power out of modern GPUs productive…

  9. 2025-07-25 · 59 min · Episode 24

    Daniel Pontecorvo runs the “physical engineering” team at Jane Street. This group blends architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and construction management to build functional physical spaces. In…

  10. 2025-05-28 · 1 hr 20 min · Episode 23

    Ian Henry started his career at Warby Parker and Trello, building consumer apps for millions of users. Now he writes high-performance tools for a small set of experts on Jane Street’s options desk. In this episode, Ron…

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08/2020 · over 6 years
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1 hr 4 min
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