Daniel Maher from the Community team at Datadog sat down with Maël Nison, Senior Software Engineer on the Frontend Platform team, to talk about his journey from childhood on a remote island to becoming the principal maintainer of Yarn. Growing up in France and later studying engineering in Paris, Maël developed an interest in programming at a young age, initially using DarkBASIC to create games. He went on to study in Canada before joining various organizations, including start-ups, where he honed his skills and learned to work with different teams. Eventually, he joined Facebook's Yarn project, where he became the driving force behind its development and growth into a community-driven open source tool. After leaving Facebook, Maël joined Datadog, where he continues to work on improving developer experience and is involved in various open source projects, including Yarn and VSCode improvements. Throughout his career, Maël has emphasized the importance of communication with users and making informed trade-offs when implementing solutions.