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At Sifflet,
Data Means Business.

Data drives every strategic decision, guides innovation, and powers transformation. But how do companies ensure their data is reliable? How can they trust the insights that guide critical business choices? How do they turn raw information into actionable intelligence, high-performing products, and superior strategies? Enter Sifflet.

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Who We Are

We are a data observability platform. 
We offer end-to-end oversight into the entire data stack, helping teams to uncover, prevent and overcome the technical and organizational obstacles that get in the way of better quality, more reliable data.

Our Mission

We help companies see data breakthroughs. Sifflet delivers smoother running data stacks by providing detailed oversight and solutions that reduce data breaks, improve team alignment and operations, and build confidence in the numbers. The result? Superior insights, value and products from data.

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Meet our Executive team

Sifflet was built by a data-obsessed team for
data-obsessed teams.

Chief Executive Officer
Salma Bakouk
Before founding Sifflet, Salma worked in quantitative sales & trading at Goldman Sachs, where she saw firsthand how unreliable data could undermine even the most sophisticated models. She holds two master’s degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from École Centrale Paris. Named among Europe’s Top 100 Women in Tech, Salma is a frequent speaker at leading industry events including Gartner D&A Summit and Big Data LDN. Outside of work, she loves running mountain trails, discovering new cities, and spending time with her dog always chasing the same clarity and balance she strives to bring to data.
Head of Sales
Joe Steadman
Joe is Head of Sales at Sifflet, focused on solving the data trust problem by helping teams detect broken data, understand business impact, and fix issues before they drive bad decisions. Previously at Matillion for 9 years, he led enterprise and strategic sales across EMEA, built and scaled high performing teams, consistently outperformed targets, and started as the company’s first sales hire, helping shape early go to market and partnerships.
Head of Operations
Rémi Bastien
Rémi is Head of Operations at Sifflet where he drives operational execution and scale. Previously at Contentsquare for nearly a decade, he led strategic cross functional projects and built operational excellence capabilities, spanning BI and KPIs, data governance and master data, knowledge management, tooling, process optimization, and PMO leadership.
Head of Product
Laura Malins
Laura Malins is the Head of Product at Sifflet. She spent a decade at Matillion, joining when the company was around 10 people and helping drive its growth to unicorn scale, including leading major product launches, evolving pricing and billing, optimising GTM approaches and improving the customer onboarding journey. She later led product at ALTR where she drove forwards a comprehensive vision and more complete product processes. Laura is passionate about building great products and supports individuals and small companies through board roles and mentoring.
Head of Solution Engineering
Alex Iorga
Alex is Head of Solutions Engineering and Customer Success at Sifflet, leading technical presales and post sales to drive smooth adoption and measurable outcomes. Previously at Deepomatic, he built and scaled Sales Engineering from first hire to Director, defined sales methodology with leadership, shaped the roadmap with product, built key partnerships, signed the company’s first North America customer, and expanded into LATAM. Earlier, he was a data and analytics consultant at Accenture in the UK, delivering BI and reporting programs and leading agile project work.
Head of Marketing
Romain Doutriaux
Romain Doutriaux is Head of Marketing at Sifflet, driving brand and pipeline with a sharp go to market lens. Previously, he led global marketing at Pigment, scaling inbound pipe gen, ABX and influence plays, and a 20 plus person team. Before that, he spent over seven years at Dataiku, moving from France Marketing Manager to VP EMEA Marketing, owning EMEA strategy across PR, digital, events, ABM, partnerships, and positioning in tight alignment with Sales and Product.
Head of Engineering
Benoit Faucon
Benoît Faucon is the head of Engineering at Sifflet, leading integrations and infrastructure. Previously, he held lead infrastructure and security roles at Terality and Mindsay, where he built reliable cloud platforms, improved developer velocity, and drove security and compliance efforts, including SOC 2 readiness. Earlier in his career at Withings, he delivered automation and observability systems across large scale bare metal and cloud environments. He is a graduate of Ecole Centrale Paris.

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Frequently asked questions

Why are traditional data catalogs no longer enough for modern data teams?
Traditional data catalogs focus mainly on metadata management, but they don't actively assess data quality or track changes in real time. As data environments grow more complex, teams need more than just an inventory. They need data observability tools that provide real-time metrics, anomaly detection, and data quality monitoring to ensure reliable decision-making.
How is data volume different from data variety?
Great question! Data volume is about how much data you're receiving, while data variety refers to the different types and formats of data sources. For example, a sudden drop in appointment data is a volume issue, while a new file format causing schema mismatches is a variety issue. Observability tools help you monitor both dimensions to maintain healthy pipelines.
Why is a centralized Data Catalog important for data reliability and SLA compliance?
A centralized Data Catalog like Sifflet’s plays a key role in ensuring data reliability and SLA compliance by offering visibility into asset health, surfacing incident alerts, and providing real-time metrics. This empowers teams to monitor data pipelines proactively and meet service level expectations more consistently.
What role does Sifflet’s data catalog play in observability?
Sifflet’s data catalog acts as the central hub for your data ecosystem, enriched with metadata and classification tags. This foundation supports cloud data observability by giving teams full visibility into their assets, enabling better data lineage tracking, telemetry instrumentation, and overall observability platform performance.
How does data observability complement a data catalog?
While a data catalog helps you find and understand your data, data observability ensures that the data you find is actually reliable. Observability tools like Sifflet monitor the health of your data pipelines in real time, using features like data freshness checks, anomaly detection, and data quality monitoring. Together, they give you both visibility and trust in your data.
Can I trust the data I find in the Sifflet Data Catalog?
Absolutely! Thanks to Sifflet’s built-in data quality monitoring, you can view real-time metrics and health checks directly within the Data Catalog. This gives you confidence in the reliability of your data before making any decisions.
What makes traditional data monitoring insufficient for modern retail operations?
Traditional monitoring often relies on batch processing, leading to delays in inventory updates. It also struggles with data silos, lacks robust data quality monitoring, and is mostly reactive. In contrast, modern observability tools provide real-time insights, dynamic thresholding, and predictive analytics monitoring to keep up with fast-paced retail environments.
How does data observability help detect data volume issues?
Data observability provides visibility into your pipelines by tracking key metrics like row counts, duplicates, and ingestion patterns. It acts as an early warning system, helping teams catch volume anomalies before they affect dashboards or ML models. By using a robust observability platform, you can ensure that your data is consistently complete and trustworthy.
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