Some tasteful imperfections kept to heighten Wabi-Sabi effect. Everyone’s heard of how awesome Jane Street is. Fewer people have heard about the times something stupid nearly put it out of business and it was saved by grit and dumb luck.
I was on the systems team for some of those. Jane Street didn’t do titles, and we on the systems team weren’t above getting our hands dirty. You could think of us as the firm’s blue-collar OCaml programmers: when something broke, we were the ones running through the corridors to fix it. Call this story a Star Trek: Lower Decks view of Jane Street.
