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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 Subdomains support self-service and reduce platform team bottlenecks?
Subdomains empower each team to manage their own observability setup, from configuring monitors to setting thresholds. This decentralization speeds up time-to-value and reduces the need for constant involvement from the central platform team, making self-service data observability a reality.
Will there be live demonstrations of Sifflet’s observability platform?
Absolutely! Our team will be offering hands-on demos that showcase how our observability tools integrate into your workflows. From real-time metrics to data quality monitoring, you’ll get a full picture of how Sifflet boosts data reliability across your stack.
What is a data platform and why does it matter?
A data platform is a unified system that helps companies collect, store, process, and analyze data across their organization. It acts as the central nervous system for all data operations, powering dashboards, AI models, and decision-making. When paired with strong data observability, it ensures teams can trust their data and move faster with confidence.
Can Sifflet support real-time metrics and monitoring for AI pipelines?
Absolutely! While Sifflet’s monitors are typically scheduled, you can run them on demand using our API. This means you can integrate real-time data quality checks into your AI pipelines, ensuring your models are making decisions based on the freshest and most accurate data available. It's a powerful way to keep your AI systems responsive and reliable.
How is AI shaping the future of data observability?

AI enhances data observability with advanced anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and automated root cause analysis. This helps teams identify and resolve issues faster while reducing manual effort. Have a look at how Sifflet is leveraging AI for better data observability here

How can data observability support a Data as a Product (DaaP) strategy?
Data observability plays a crucial role in a DaaP strategy by ensuring that data is accurate, fresh, and trustworthy. With tools like Sifflet, businesses can monitor data pipelines in real time, detect anomalies, and perform root cause analysis to maintain high data quality. This helps build reliable data products that users can trust.
How does Forge support incident response automation?
Forge is our resolution agent that turns insights into actions. It recommends specific fixes based on past incidents, and with your approval, it can execute them automatically. Whether it’s retrying a dbt job or running a backfill, Forge reduces manual work and speeds up recovery. It’s a big step forward in incident response automation and keeping your data pipelines healthy.
How does Sifflet support data pipeline monitoring for teams using dbt?
Sifflet gives you end-to-end visibility into your data pipelines, including those built with dbt. With features like pipeline health dashboards, data freshness checks, and telemetry instrumentation, your team can monitor pipeline performance and ensure SLA compliance with confidence.
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