700+ Engineers on Wall Street -- D.E. Shaw's Technology DNA

D.E. Shaw employs over 700 developers and engineers building proprietary technology platforms, contributes actively to open source (Jupyter, Dask, IPython), and has spun off technology companies like Arcesium and DESRI. This module explores what it means to be a technologist at a firm where computing is not a support function but the core competitive advantage, and how D.E. Shaw's engineering culture differs from both traditional finance and pure tech companies.