Jean-Mathieu Saponaro is Director of Engineering at Datadog, where he leads the Analytics Data Platform, which powers analytical products and AI model training across the company. The platform provides managed batch data processing through Spark and Airflow, real-time processing through Flink, and an Iceberg-backed Lakehouse, running 400k Spark batch pipelines each day across 70 teams. JM has spent the past 11 years at Datadog building and scaling analytics data services, from internal analytics to the data infrastructure behind customer-facing products like Product Analytics and Cloud Cost Management.