I am interested in applying for a position in Quantitative Research and Software Development. I learned about Jane Street Capital from a gentleman I met at the LispNYC user's group meeting earlier this month (Mike, he works in software development, though he had no business cards at the time and I didn't get his last name). What he told me about the programmer-centric culture and use of OCaml intrigued me, and after researching the company in more detail, it sounds like a Xanadu for coders.
I have specialized professionally in Java/.NET enterprise applications with a half-decade of experience under my belt after receiving my degree in Math from the University of Texas, but have recently become infatuated with functional programming. In studying some GNU/Linux window manager source, I stumbled across XMonad, which is written in Haskell. I had some experience in the language from college, but at the time I had not really grok'd functional programming as anything more than a curiosity; studying a medium sized piece of 'wild' code in the language really solidified the concept of designing *real* software functionally, and I've been hooked ever since. Later, I discovered Clojure, and fell in love with the homoiconic simplicity and the ability to leverage my knowledge of Java libraries in a functional/concurrency oriented setting, and have been using it almost exclusively in both my professional capacities and all of my side projects/personal studies.
Of course, the best way to learn any technology is to live in it, and to that end I am determined to find employment in an environment that excels at developing large scale functional applications, and Jane Street is clearly the gold standard in this (admittedly miniscule) industry. I've only recently begun to learn OCaml (on Mike's suggestion), but what I've learned is interesting, and it would be a dream come true to truly learn the paradigm from the masters themselves.
Please take a look at my attached resume and let me know if my skill set would be a good match for the Jane Street Capital culture. I have a number of small-medium sized applications written in a number of languages available for your perusal, but I would direct your attention mainly to my Clojure sources (which are my most recent and of which I am the most proud). The current project occupying the most of my free time is MusicBox, a zero-knowledge algorithmic music composition engine that uses random monophonic musical phrases in a random hierarchy to compose long polyphonic compositions that balance theme and variation:
