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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

How do Sifflet's AI agents like Sentinel and Forge improve data pipeline monitoring?
Sentinel recommends monitoring strategies based on metadata, making it easy for non-technical users to set up robust data quality monitoring. Forge goes a step further by suggesting contextual fixes grounded in historical patterns. Together, they enhance data pipeline monitoring by enabling proactive issue detection and resolution.
What should I consider when choosing a modern observability tool for my data stack?
When evaluating observability tools, consider factors like ease of setup, support for real-time metrics, data freshness checks, and integration with your existing stack. Look for platforms that offer strong data pipeline monitoring, business context in alerts, and cost transparency. Tools like Sifflet also provide fast time-to-value and support for both batch and streaming data observability.
What should I look for in a reverse ETL tool?
When choosing a reverse ETL tool, key features to consider include reliable syncing, strong security and privacy controls, and broad integration capabilities. These features help ensure smooth data pipeline monitoring and support data governance across your organization.
Who should be responsible for data quality in an organization?
That's a great topic! While there's no one-size-fits-all answer, the best data quality programs are collaborative. Everyone from data engineers to business users should play a role. Some organizations adopt data contracts or a Data Mesh approach, while others use centralized observability tools to enforce data validation rules and ensure SLA compliance.
What if I use tools that aren’t natively supported by Sifflet?
No worries at all! With Sifflet’s Universal Connector API, you can integrate data from virtually any source. This flexibility means you can monitor your entire data ecosystem and maintain full visibility into your data pipeline monitoring, no matter what tools you're using.
Why is the new join feature in the monitor UI a game changer for data quality monitoring?
The ability to define joins directly in the monitor setup interface means you can now monitor relationships across datasets without writing custom SQL. This is crucial for data quality monitoring because many issues arise from inconsistencies between related tables. Now, you can catch those problems early and ensure better data reliability across your pipelines.
Can Sifflet help reduce false positives during holidays or special events?
Absolutely! We know that data patterns can shift during holidays or unique business dates. That’s why Sifflet now lets you exclude these dates from alerts by selecting from common calendars or customizing your own. This helps reduce alert fatigue and improves the accuracy of anomaly detection across your data pipelines.
Can classification tags improve data pipeline monitoring?
Absolutely! By tagging fields like 'Low Cardinality', data teams can quickly identify which fields are best suited for specific monitors. This enables more targeted data pipeline monitoring, making it easier to detect anomalies and maintain SLA compliance across your analytics pipeline.
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