Jean-Yves is the Co-Founder & CEO of Data Mechanics, a serverless platform making Spark easy to use and performant. The mission of Data Mechanics is to make Spark more developer-friendly and cost-effective for data engineering teams. Before Data Mechanics, Jean-Yves was a software engineer at Databricks, where he led the Spark infrastructure team. In this interview, we spoke about the mission of Data Mechanics, the story of how it came to be, Jean-Yves’ recommendations for when it might make sense to bring Spark into your stack, and more.