Meet Tsuga

Enterprise-grade observability
running in your cloud

About us

Tsuga was founded in 2024, building Bring Your own Cloud to observability. We address the explosion of costs while scaling, governance issues with SaaS observability tools, and vendor lock-in by providing Log Management, Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Performance Management (APM) and Observability Pipelines directly in your cloud environment.

Our Story

Cloud adoption has increased the need for effective observability, but SaaS solutions often create cost and dependency problems. Tsuga offers a self-hosted platform that integrates into your infrastructure for better control and efficiency.

Our Team

Our team brings deep expertise from Datadog and complementary backgrounds in observability, engineering, and sales to drive Tsuga's mission.

Gabriel-James Safar
Co-Founder & CEO
GJ leverages his experience as Senior Director of Product Management at Datadog, where he was responsible for the DEM (Digital Experience Monitoring) product group, inclusive of RUM (Real User Monitoring), Synthetic Testing, and Continuous Testing. He co-founded Madumbo, which exited to Datadog developing an AI-powered SaaS for detecting website defects. He is a graduate of HEC Paris and ENSAE.
Sébastien Deprez
Co-Founder & CTO
Sébastien leads technical development. He served as Senior Engineering Manager at Datadog, managing the 35 engineers that built Datadog’s fourth product. He co-founded Madumbo with Gabriel-James creating a language-agnostic front-end debugging tool for improved web application efficiency. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and ENSAE.
Nils Bunge
Head of Product
Successively Principal Product Manager and Director of Product Management, at Datadog, Nils has been influential by overseeing critical platform teams including Event-based query and storage, Alerting, and Referential asset inventory, and the AI capabilities with Watchdog. Before that he launched and drove the fastest growing Log Management product ever. He is also the author of various best practice blog posts on log management across multiple languages and technologies. He is a graduate of Telecom Paris and Imperial College, London.
Valentin Jacquemont
Head of Go-To-Market
With over 10 years in sales, Valentin served as one of Datadog's first European sales representatives, building key customer relationships in the observability space. His expertise helps Tsuga Data expand reach while addressing enterprise needs in cloud environments. He is a graduate of Audencia.
Cécile Guyon
Software Engineer
Cécile served as Engineering Manager for 7 years at Datadog, working on the Data Science and Security products. She is a graduate of Dauphine University.
Andrada-Elena Preda
Software Engineer
Andrada served as Software Engineer at EA, Meta and ADP. She is a graduate of the Polytechnic School of Bucharest.
Halvor Fladsrud Bø
Software Engineer
Halvor worked at Palantir for 4 years, where he worked as a Forward Deployed Engineer, and as Team Lead. He is a graduate of NTNU.
Marine Guy
Product Designer
Marine served as Product Designer at Datadog for over 3 years, where she worked on the Synthetics and Integration products. She’s a graduate of Nantes School of Design.
Gerry Agbobada
Software Engineer
Gerry is an Engineer specializing in high performance in Rust. He notably worked at Ledger and Fiberplane. He’s a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique.
Théodore Otzenberger
Software Engineer
Théo served as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir, focusing on the banking sector. He’s a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique.
Thomas Pilewicz
Software Engineer
Thomas served as a Software Engineer and Data Engineer at Luko and Aircall. He’s a graduate from HEC Paris.
Tales Marra
Data Scientist
Tales served as Data Scientist and ML Engineer at AssessFirst and Tinyclues. He’s a graduate from University of Goias and CentraleSupelec.
Tales Marra
Data Scientist
Tales served as Data Scientist and ML Engineer at AssessFirst and Tinyclues. He’s a graduate from University of Goias and CentraleSupelec.
Emmanuel Vacher
Software Engineer
Manu served as SRE at Qonto and Software Engineer at Shine. He’s a graduate from Telecom Paris.
Antoine Dupuis
Software Engineer
Antoine served as a Software Engineer in the core team creating the Husky event platform at Datadog, where he spent 8 years, including his time at Logmatic. He’s a graduate from University Paris 13.
Baptiste Rios Campo
Software Engineer
Baptiste served as a Staff Software Engineer at Cardiologs and Ekino. He’s a graduate from University Paris Gustave Eiffel.
Louis Rémus
Software Engineer
Louis served as Engineering Manager at Joko, and Software Engineer at Uber. He’s a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique.
Pierre Guyot
Software Engineer
Pierre served as Software Engineer successively at Madumbo and Datadog. He’s a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique.
Soukaina Sedki
Sales Ops
Souki interned in a variety of positions related to digital, marketing and communication prior to joining Tsuga. She’s a graduate from Bayes Business School and HEC Paris.
Julien Teyssier
Account Executive
Julien served as SDR and Enterprise AE at AB Tasty and Datadog. He’s a graduate from Toulouse Business School and Ecole des Mines d’Albi.
Antonin Bruneau
Forward Deployed Engineer
Antonin last served as Staff Enterprise Sales Engineer at Datadog. Before that, he served as Sales Engineer at Cloudera and Streamset, and as Consultant at Oracle. He’s a graduate from ISEP.
Arthur Verrez
Data Scientist
Arthur was CEO and co-founder from Flaneer, a cloud-based computer. He then served as Lead Data at NielsenIQ. He’s a graduate from Mines de Paris.
Seif El Gamil
SDR
Seif interned in various VC, tech M&A and Entrepreneurship positions. He’s a graduate from Sciences Po Paris.
Dimitri Le Parc
Account Executive
Dim served as Sr Account Executive at AWS, after serving as SDR and Account Executive at Datadog.

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Our team of engineers and data specialists works to deliver
flexible, cost-effective observability for cloud-native setups.
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