Yaron Minsky heads the technology group at Jane
Street, a proprietary trading firm that is the largest
industrial user of OCaml. He was responsible for
introducing OCaml to the company and for managing the
company's transition to using OCaml for all of its core
infrastructure. Today, billions of dollars worth of
securities transactions flow each day through those
systems. Yaron obtained his PhD in Computer Science from
Cornell University, where he studied distributed systems.
Yaron has lectured, blogged, and written about OCaml for
years, with articles published in Communications of
the ACM and the Journal of Functional
Programming. He chairs the steering committee of the
Commercial Users of Functional Programming, and is a
member of the steering committee for the International
Conference on Functional Programming.
Anil Madhavapeddy is a senior research fellow at the
University of Cambridge, based in the Systems Research
Group. He was on the original team that developed the Xen
hypervisor, and he helped develop an industry-leading
cloud management toolstack written entirely in OCaml.
This XenServer product has been deployed on hundreds of
thousands of physical hosts and drives critical
infrastructure for many Fortune 500 companies. Prior to
obtaining his PhD in 2006 from the University of
Cambridge, Anil had a diverse background in industry at
Network Appliance, NASA, and Internet Vision. In addition
to professional and academic activities, he is an active
member of the open source development community with the
OpenBSD operating system, is co-chair of the Commercial
Users of Functional Programming workshop, and serves on
the boards of startup companies such as Ashima Arts,
where OCaml is extensively used.
Jason Hickey is a software engineer at Google Inc. in
Mountain View, California. He is part of the team that
designs and develops the global computing infrastructure
used to support Google services, including the software
systems for managing and scheduling massively distributed
computing resources. Prior to joining Google, Jason was
an assistant professor of Computer Science at Caltech,
where his research was in reliable and fault-tolerant
computing systems, including programming language design,
formal methods, compilers, and new models of distributed
computation. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from
Cornell University, where he studied programming
languages. He is the author of the MetaPRL system, a
logical framework for design and analysis of large
software systems; and OMake, an advanced build system for
large software projects.
