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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 is data quality management so important for growing organizations?
Great question! Data quality management helps ensure that your data remains accurate, complete, and aligned with business goals as your organization scales. Without strong data quality practices, teams waste time troubleshooting issues, decision-makers lose trust in reports, and systems make poor choices. With proper data quality monitoring in place, you can move faster, automate confidently, and build a competitive edge.
How does SQL Table Tracer support different SQL dialects for data lineage tracking?
SQL Table Tracer uses Antlr4 and a unified grammar with semantic predicates to support multiple SQL dialects like Snowflake, Redshift, and PostgreSQL. This ensures accurate data lineage tracking across diverse systems without needing separate parsers for each dialect.
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.
What makes Sifflet different from other data observability platforms like Monte Carlo or Anomalo?
Sifflet stands out by offering a unified observability platform that combines data cataloging, monitoring, and data lineage tracking in one place. Unlike tools that focus only on anomaly detection or technical metrics, Sifflet brings in business context, empowering both technical and non-technical users to collaborate and ensure data reliability at scale.
What does the Sifflet and Google Cloud partnership mean for users?
Great question! This partnership allows Google Cloud users to integrate Sifflet’s data observability platform directly within their private cloud environment. That means better visibility, reliability, and trust in your data from ingestion all the way to analytics.
What role does data lineage tracking play in observability?
Data lineage tracking is a key part of any robust data observability framework. It helps you understand where your data comes from, how it’s transformed, and where it flows. This visibility is essential for debugging issues, ensuring compliance, and building trust in your data pipelines. It's especially useful when paired with real-time data pipeline monitoring tools.
What role do tools like Apache Spark and dbt play in data transformation?
Apache Spark and dbt are powerful tools for managing different aspects of data transformation. Spark is great for large-scale, distributed processing, especially when working with complex transformations and high data volumes. dbt, on the other hand, brings software engineering best practices to SQL-based transformations, making it ideal for analytics engineering. Both tools benefit from integration with observability platforms to ensure transformation pipelines run smoothly and reliably.
What should I consider when choosing a data observability tool?
When selecting a data observability tool, consider your data stack, team size, and specific needs like anomaly detection, metrics collection, or schema registry integration. Whether you're looking for open source observability options or a full-featured commercial platform, make sure it supports your ecosystem and scales with your data operations.
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