Sleuth - Founders and Team

Our mission

Empower teams to ship faster by making Engineering measurable & easy to improve.

Throughout my career, my passion has always been focused on building and scaling high performing engineering teams. However, a dirty little secret in engineering is that we've never had a real quantitative and trustworthy measure of engineering efficiency. Sleuth is changing all that.

Our values

Focus on the User and the Rest Will Follow

We are here for you in every way. First, our amazing tools help you achieve your goals. Then our teams go the extra mile to provide you with delightful experiences and superior services. Our fanatical focus on your success is sure to make you a fanatical Sleuth user.

Choose Action

We believe it’s better to solve a problem quickly with an imperfect solution than to waste time striving for perfection. We encourage our team members to change what they think is broken. When in doubt: iterate, improve, then DO.

Be Open, All the Time

Sleuth service and user experience teams are always available to you. We share information and collaborate freely to bring you the best solutions from our brightest minds.

Seek to Understand

We seek to understand your needs — to build trust with you, and to provide you with the best services and experiences.

Our values

Our founders

Dylan Etkin

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Atlassian alum Dylan has spent the last 15 years building dev tools with Jira, Bitbucket, and Statuspage. Dylan brings an excellence at building high performing engineering teams that build successful products.

Michael Knighten

Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Michael brings a love of building and shipping to Sleuth. Laser-focused on customer experience, simplification & ease of use, Michael built Atlassian's cloud offerings from the ground up following stints at PGP & Apple.

Don Brown

Founder & Chief Technical Officer

Don lives & breathes software, wearing developer, architect, & manager hats for over 20 years. His passion is to nudge developers to better connect with customers by owning their code to production and beyond.