Salim ATTOU

Energizer
DISC Type : I

Director of Engineering & Infrastructure at MaintainX

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Overview

Salim ATTOU is an engineering leader with 19 years of experience building and scaling teams and distributed systems. As Director of Engineering & Infrastructure at MaintainX, he focuses on reliability, developer experience, and data-driven decisions. Colleagues describe him as an attentive and empathic manager who excels at coaching talent.

Salim is multilingual, speaking English, French, and Arabic, and is also learning Korean.

At a previous company, he drove a SAP S4 Hana migration that resulted in 4. 8 million in savings.

Personality Overview

Full Of Energy

Relationship Oriented

Believer

Unlike C or D types, they are vocal with their opinions but not so much with their questions.  They are friendly, approachable and love to make new connections. They are really good at seeing what the long-term impacts of their decisions could be.

Topics They Care About

Scaling Engineering Teams
As the first manager at MaintainX, he successfully scaled the engineering organization from 23 to over 100 people across multiple departments.
Developer Experience
His role and headline emphasize his focus on owning and improving quality, reliability, release processes, and the overall developer experience for his teams.
Agile Methodologies
He has extensive experience implementing and training teams on various Agile frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban, to ensure predictable delivery.

Media Appearances

Salim has no verified media appearances

Work History

1-2024
Director of Engineering & Infrastructure at MaintainX
9-2022 - 1-2024
Senior Engineering Manager at MaintainX
2-2021 - 9-2022
Senior Manager of Application Development at SSENSE
10-2018 - 2-2021
Manager of Application Development at SSENSE
9-2017 - 9-2018
Technical Project Manager at Comdata Group

Education

2006 - 2009
Master's degree (Engineer's degree) from Polytech Paris-Saclay
2004 - 2006
Bachelor's degree from IUT de Villetaneuse

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Exp : 12 Location : Montreal, Quebec, Canada Job Level : Mid-senior Designation : Director of Engineering & Infrastructure at MaintainX
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Insights For Selling To Salim

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Use adjectives like ‘amazing’, ‘coolest’, ‘unbelievable’ etc.
  • Be friendly and entertaining in your conversation
  • Talk anecdotally about the customer experience that your product offers

DONT's

  • Don’t be too formal, focus on building comfort and trust
  • Don’t be excessively objective, be a storyteller
  • Don’t assume a yes just because they have not said no

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Salim is

  • Relationship and rapport can play an important role, sometimes more than the other factors.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Salim

  • They will probably never say no directly, you have to make that decision yourself.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Salim move?

  • They are not the quickest decision makers, their friendly attitude could be misleading.
  • Can Salim take some risk or not?

  • They can accept limited risks, ones that they think will not impact them personally.

You And Salim

Personality Compatibility


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