About
Jean Yves Stephan co-founded Data Mechanics, a data engineering platform, which was acquired by Spot in 2021. He subsequently held a product management role at Spot through 2022 and has since been exploring opportunities in climate and sustainability tech while advising early-stage companies.
Jean-Yves Stephan @jystephan
Our Data + AI summit talk on Running #Spark on #Kubernetes reliably on #spot instances is now on Youtube: https://t.co/FKp51rokcM 1) Spark driver => On-Demand, Executors => spot. 2) Avoid 80% of spot kills by optimizing spot node selection 3) Handle executor kills gracefully
Jul 26, 2022 Β· β₯ 4 Β· β 1
Jean-Yves Stephan @jystephan
Delight, our free monitoring dashboard for Apache Spark, just got a big upgrade: https://t.co/NM5acWfhGf Delight gives you access to the Spark UI (we run the Spark History Server for you) and key system metrics (CPU, Memory, I/O) to help you understand the performance of Spark.
Jul 19, 2022 Β· β₯ 4
Jean-Yves Stephan @jystephan
Data + AI Summit is a wrap! If you couldn't attend our session, we just released the same content as a blog post - How to run Spark on Kubernetes reliably on spot instances :) ! https://t.co/4ZZoHIkAL2
Jun 30, 2022 Β· β₯ 4 Β· β 1
Founder at Data MechanicsYC S19
Intro paths
Jean went through Y Combinator (Summer 2019) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer β the partner who ran Data Mechanics's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Jean can intro founders to Data Mechanics's investors below.
