️17 Years of Caml Herding

Jane Street is a long-time user of OCaml and the largest industrial user of the language. Today, there are hundreds of people at Jane Street who use OCaml to build rich and complex applications that are essential to our business.

In this talk, I’ll discuss the work we’ve done to provide those people with a great development experience as they write, maintain, and deploy software. I’ll also discuss Jane Street as an example of how OCaml can contribute to a tech-focused company’s success, both in the short and long term.

About the speaker:

Jeremie Dimino is the original author of Dune, a popular OCaml build system. He has been working as a Software Engineer at Jane Street for the past 6 years where he thrived doing what he is passionate about: programming and Open Source. He is also part of the core OCaml development team and has contributed to various aspect of the compiler such as improving the FFI. He is also the initial author of the utop toplevel and was the main maintainer of the widely used Lwt library for several years.