Solving Puzzles in Production with Liora Friedberg

About this episode

Liora Friedberg discusses the intersection of production engineering and software engineering at Jane Street.

Liora Friedberg is a Production Engineer at Jane Street with a background in economics and computer science. In this episode, Liora and Ron discuss how production engineering blends high-stakes puzzle solving with thoughtful software engineering, as the people doing support build tools to make that support less necessary. They also discuss how Jane Street uses both tabletop simulation and hands-on exercises to train Production Engineers; what skills effective Production Engineers have in common; and how to create a culture where people aren’t blamed for making costly mistakes.

People in this episode

Host: Ron

Guest: Liora Friedberg

Topics covered

• production engineering
• software engineering
• training
• puzzle solving
• company culture

Keywords

• production engineering
• software engineering
• training
• puzzle solving
• company culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jane Street

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