Host

Ron Minsky

Ron Minsky

Head of Technology at Jane Street, the quantitative trading firm, and host of Signals and Threads. A long-standing advocate of functional programming and OCaml, Minsky co-authored Real World OCaml and led Jane Street’s adoption of the language across its trading systems.

Minsky’s interviews go deeper into engineering craft than almost any other podcast: a single guest, usually a Jane Street engineer or researcher, talks through one layer of the stack — garbage collection, build systems, clock synchronisation, performance, machine-learning compilers — at the level of detail practitioners actually work at. The register is collegial and unhurried; Minsky tends to restate each technical idea in his own words, which makes the conversations unusually legible to non-specialists.

Show

Signals and Threads — in-depth technical conversations about every layer of the tech stack, produced by Jane Street. Roughly one to two hours, a few episodes a year. Full free transcripts on each episode page; audio on all podcast platforms.

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