Sofiane Rouz

Critic
DISC Type : C

Director of Engineering at Elastic

London, England, United Kingdom

Overview

Sofiane Rouz is the Director of Engineering at Elastic, leading the platform billing team. With over 15 years of experience at companies like Amazon and Amadeus, he specializes in delivering large-scale, high-impact platforms for the travel, media, and security industries. He is a graduate of ENSEEIHT.

There is no publicly available information regarding Sofianes personal life or hobbies.

At a previous company, he reduced infrastructure costs by €5 million through platform optimizations and helped achieve a world record throughput for Splunk technology.

Personality Overview

ROI Driven

Critic

Objective Thinker

They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms.  They choose to analyze logically and value facts to emotions. They like to do things independently and don’t look for support from others.

Topics They Care About

Platform Billing
Currently leads the Platform Billing engineering team at Elastic, focusing on creating scalable, reliable, and transparent usage-based billing systems for a global customer base.
Empathetic Leadership
Frequently posts about hiring empathetic leaders who care about people and know how to build high-performing, psychologically safe teams.
Mentorship & Growth
Expresses a deep care for team well-being and developing people through mentorship and purpose-driven leadership, a quality highlighted in recommendations he has received.

Media Appearances

Sofiane has no verified media appearances

Work History

6-2025
Director of Engineering at Elastic
7-2023 - 4-2025
Software Development Manager - Identity & Access Management at Amazon
2-2021 - 7-2023
Software Development Manager - Prime Video at Amazon
2-2016 - 2-2021
Software Engineering Manager - Logging and Monitoring at Amadeus IT Group
11-2013 - 1-2016
Software Development Manager - Advertising Solutions at Amadeus IT Group

Education

2004 - 2007
2007 from ENSEEIHT
2002 - 2004
Physical Chemistry from IPEST

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Insights For Selling To Sofiane

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Leverage facts and figures wherever possible; use percentages, numbers etc.
  • Tell them what ROI they can expect
  • Be formal and objective, they will appreciate it more

DONT's

  • Do not use very emotional or colorful language
  • Avoid pushing them too much to involve other stakeholders unless it is critical
  • Make extra effort to not seem pushy or confrontational

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Sofiane is

  • Proven ROI, pricing and objective proof points are the factors that sway their decision.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Sofiane

  • They are comfortable saying no if they are convinced that it is the correct decision.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Sofiane move?

  • They are neither the fastest nor the slowest decision makers, they are somewhere in the middle.
  • Can Sofiane take some risk or not?

  • They can bear some risk if their analysis backs the decision.

You And Sofiane

Personality Compatibility


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