Built by experts
Sixta is built by people who have spent decades running production databases and building monitoring software for the likes of Percona, VividCortex and SolarWinds.
The team has stood in your shoes, supporting clients when things broke, at all hours, in real systems. In that time they learned that solving database incidents takes more than monitoring software. It takes two things at once: an inhuman capacity to parse and analyse vast quantities of metrics quickly and accurately, and a very human capacity to apply context to the problem.
Founders
Ewen Fortune
Founder and CEO25 years in database operations, on both sides of the tooling: early employee at Percona, early employee at VividCortex, product manager for database observability at SolarWinds. Ewen started Sixta to remove toil from database teams and free them for strategic work, so the teams who use it are ahead of the ones who don't. Databases without the pain.
Lori Gagnon
Head of Go-to-MarketYears in database and infrastructure software, all commercial, at VividCortex and then SolarWinds. Lori leads Sixta's sales, partnerships and customer relationships. She knows the market well enough to explain the product in plain English to the people who live with incidents: DBREs, SREs, and the leaders who fund them.
Andrew Morgan
Co-founder and CTOEngineering leadership at RKG, VividCortex and SolarWinds, and years building and operating multi-shard MySQL at scale. Andrew leads engineering at Sixta, turning the way a senior DBA reasons through an incident into a system that does the same: reading what the database already knows, and coming back with a clear fix.
Advisors and backers
Sixta is backed by Baron Schwartz, founder of VividCortex, along with Heavybit, Encoded Ventures and Percona.
Baron Schwartz
Founder of VividCortex, investor and advisor, bringing deep database performance and monitoring experience.
Nitay Joffe
Founder and CTO at ActionIQ, formerly Facebook data infrastructure and an HBase contributor, advising on large-scale data systems.
Andy Ellicot
Veteran of Vertica, VoltDB, Cloudant/IBM and DBOS, advising on how to position Sixta in the database market.
Christian Bilien
Head of Data at BNP Paribas and former Global Head of DBRE at Société Générale, bringing a bank-scale reliability perspective.