Success Story : Debasis Jena
Your
current profile
Currently
working as Technical expert with 10+ Years of experience.
Why have
you chosen Salesforce as your career?
I started
as a .NET developer but when I looked on the market and trend of technology,
found the love of my life Salesforce. From there started self-learning, made
myself dirty with salesforce's multiple PDF/books and many salesforce developer
orgs to practice. Initial days failed many
times to prove myself but the knowledge what we learnt will push us
up always. Got a click to start salesforce Journey and proved myself today
:)
What do you
want to learn next?
I learn
everyday something that might be salesforce or nonsalesforce related or
anything. Without learning and knowledge, you cannot success in your life. I
have plan to make my hand dirty with Salesforce functions soon.
How many
Certifications you have?
Not so many
like everyone have but to exact its 9X
How was
your initial Days as a fresher?
Back to
year 2012, I joined Capgemini, Hyderabad as Associate consultant
and there started my days with projects, meetings, client and code :) That
days, salesforce does not have trailhead and many blogs which anyone can refer
and learn something. I used to follow few PDF and limited available resources
to learn salesforce. I can say only one thing- How much time you spend in the
learning, that will give 100times value to your knowledge.
Suggestion
for becoming salesforce expert.
Be the
brand of yourself, keep your world open and welcome to the people who wants
your help or guidance. Your knowledge will be sharpening only when you share
it. I learnt many things when I started teaching salesforce in various
platforms like Meetup, YouTube channel, My Own Udemy sessions, blogs etc.
What’s the
Advice for new Salesforce developer
only one
formula - Think you are the best developer and show it to the world. Gain
knowledge, implement and Help others
Happiness
in one word -
New learning.
Contact Links:
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Twitter: @debsalesforce
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Success Story
- Amrik Das
1. Your
current profile
–
Lead Developer, Salesforce
2. Why have
you chosen Salesforce as your career?
- I did not choose Salesforce, rather Salesforce
was chosen for me based on my performance in the generic training conducted in
my first company – Gyansys Inc, where I joined as a fresher. I just happened to
love it from day one.
3. What do
you want to learn next?
- I want to learn and understand management better.
I aspire to become a Technical Manager, keeping my hold in Salesforce while
sharpening my skills to elevate the performance of my team and myself.
4. How many
Salesforce certifcation do you have?
- I have 9
certifications, the latest one being Advanced Admin. I achieved the Application
Architect certification in April 2019.
5 . How
were your initial Days as a fresher?
- My initial days as a fresher in Gyansys changed
my career. The atmosphere was demanding and aggressive because of the small
team size and the lack of experience in it. We used to work on at least 2
projects at a time along with POCs and estimations. The atmosphere, although
hectic, gave me an exponential learning curve which I cherish till date.
6.
Suggestions for becoming a Salesforce expert?
- Depending
on your project in the office isn’t enough. You have to do more and be more.
Salesforce expands in multiple directions each quarter. One has to be proactive
to call themselves an expert. So I’d suggest, be updated with what’s going on
in the Salesforce Ecosystem, be active on the developer community and be
involved in things other than your project, like helping out with trainings or
POCs.
7. What’s
the Advice for new Salesforce developer
- Be
hungry, be involved. And same advice as above. :D
8. Happiness in one phrase
- Work-life
balance. I love my job, I love Salesforce, I feel IT industry is glamorous by
its own means. Having said that, I do not stretch my ours unless needed. I make
sure I maintain work-life balance so that my work is not my life but a part of
my life which I love. I keep myself open to experiences in the free time even
if I don’t have anything planned. Your life is like a vehicle with 4 wheels –
Work, Relationships, Society and Self – All these aspects should be managed
properly for the vehicle to perform at its best.
Success Story - Aviral Agrawal
"Only Student Group leader who turned into salesforce MVP at the age of 22"
1. Your
current profile:
Currently, I am working as an Associate Salesforce
Developer at Dazeworks. I am working on Aura and LWC Framework. I am a huge
enthusiast of Lightning Flows and prefer to create them.
2. Why
have you chosen Salesforce as your career?
I started discovering Salesforce from my college,
and I always enjoyed doing things in Salesforce! Moreover, I respect
innovation. And Salesforce is one of the most innovative companies so far.
3. What do you want to
learn next?
Well, currently I am learning Marketing Cloud and Field Service Lightning. But
I am looking forward to learning more about Evergreen.
4. How many Salesforce
Credentials do you have?
Currently, I hold 18 Superbadges and 7
certifications.
5. How were your initial
Days as a fresher?
I believe that I am always a fresher, as I want to learn new things! But yes as
the Fresher to the IT industry, I would say that starting learning Salesforce
from college and spending time in networking helped me to get a job and a good
career path.
"Your Network is Your Net-worth"
6. Suggestions for
becoming a Salesforce expert?
Well, you have to be a learner first. Learn everyday! "Because when you
stop learning, you start dying".
So keep learning new things, go to the depth and do more hands-on!
7. What’s the Advice for
new Salesforce developer
Well, go for Trailhead Modules and start doing Superbadges! Then I would advise
starting learning APEX and Lightning and work on the basics (OOPs Concepts, MVC
Architecture, RDBMS, etc.).
8. Happiness in one phrase "Our Happiness Is Our Responsibility" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0kQTk6FJgs
Success story :Amit Singh
Your current profile: Salesforce Consultant ( Salesforce MVP )
Why you have chosen Salesforce as your career? Being honest, I had no idea about salesforce. After getting failed into 30+ interviews I got selected in ASTREA IT SERVICES and there I got into salesforce accidentally.
What do you want to learn next? Marketing Cloud
How many Certifications you have? 11 X
How were your initial Days as a fresher? My initial days were full of suffer and no one was there to help. Trailhead was born so there was very less help.
Suggestion for becoming salesforce expert? I always used to say Inject Trailhead into your blood and you will be Salesforce Expert one day.
What’s the Advice for new Salesforce developer? If you do not help yourself even god can not help you. So have faith in you and start your journey.
Happiness in one word
#SalesforceOhana
Success story of: Raman Manjari
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1. Your current profile – Project Manager
Success story of: Brian fear
> Your current profile
https://trailhead.salesforce.com/me/sfdcfox
> Why you have chosen Salesforce as your career?
I started programming at a young age. When I was about five years old, I had already written my first computer game with the help of my older brother. All through school I wanted to be a developer, and even took some college courses in programming. However, it was hard to break in to the industry, and I always ended up in customer service or technical support roles instead.
This all changed 13 years ago in a call center in a small town in the middle of nowhere. I was working as a satellite radio technical support agent. A new contract had just been acquired, and they were training the first handful of agents that would be supporting the contract. One of them decided they didn't want to do this at the last moment, and so they had a spot they needed to fill. Over in my department, my managers knew about my affinity for computers, and nominated me to go in the empty spot. Up until that point, I had programmed in many languages, including a few databases, but I had no experience in CRM or Enterprise applications in general.
Once through training, though, I quickly became proficient with the technology, and then became involved in the community. By the time a few years had passed, I outgrew the technical support role and wanted more. For the first year or two, perhaps, I could have walked away from Salesforce, but by the time I realized it was time to leave, I was already heavily involved in the community and had a wealth of knowledge about the platform. I knew that this was my career, and I loved it.
One might say that I didn't choose a career in salesforce.com; it chose me. If you'd asked me twenty years ago what I thought I'd be doing in twenty years, I never would have guessed that "enterprise programming" would have been the answer. My passion was always game development, as that is what caught my imagination as a child, but I found enterprise programming to be rewarding both emotionally and financially. Salesforce opened a whole new world to me, and changed my life for the better.
> What do you want to learn
next?
Right now, I want to finish learning what I've started on: Lightning and DX. Lightning is (relatively) simple in its design, but there's a lot of nuances I'm still puzzling out. Tasks that were straight-forward in Visualforce are more challenging because of the extra security in Lightning, for example, so figuring out the "right way" to work with it is a priority. DX promises to change the developer experience for the better, but it's hard to transition from the older, homebrew methods of development management to the new tool that is DX. I'm also considering learning more about compiler design and theory, as I'd like to write an optimizing compiler for Apex Code that can streamline the development experience. I've already come up with a syntax for a new language that feels more like JavaScript and compiles to Apex Code, but I don't know enough about compilers to make it a reality yet.
> How many Certifications you
have?
None. People are often surprised to hear this, given that I have over 100 badges on Salesforce Trailhead, over 24,000 points on the Developer Forums, and over 190,000 points on the Salesforce Stack Exchange. I've never had a need for certification, although I may decide to do so at some point in the future, it's not a priority. My community profiles speak for themselves, without the need for a certification. Almost every single job I have ever had in Salesforce was offered to me, rather than hunting/applying for jobs.
I've always held the opinion that certifications and degrees do not equate to "proof of experience", only the ability to take a test well, and I've never had to provide a certificate to prove that I have well over 10,000 hours of volunteer/unpaid Sales force experience, and more than 20,000 hours of professional Sales force experience. A certificate doesn't explain that nearly as well as my resume does.
> How was your
initial Days as a fresher
Learning the system was a daunting task, and Salesforce was only a small sliver of the huge platform it is today. Just learning reports, customization, S-Controls, and so on took a considerable amount of time; there were no trailheads, few blogs, limited community resources, and so on, with the documentation being the primary way of learning about the platform, and that was close to 2,000 printed pages back then.
It felt overwhelming at first, but each new feature that I learned about helped me become more confident in my skills. Note that since I was in level 1 technical support for the first year or so, I had the luxury of learning the information piecemeal. If I didn't have an answer, I could simply log a case, tell the customer I'd call them back the next day, and research the topic. The more research I did, the more I learned, almost all of it organically, rather than through classes or training.
What I learned is that Salesforce is a big application. It's not something you can learn in a day, or a week, or really even a year. What's important is to approach it one step at a time, instead of trying to see it as a whole. It's much too large to learn everything, so it's important to learn the essentials first: leads, contacts, opportunities, reports. Then, find topics that are interesting, and research those. In my case, I started studying the API extensively, because I wanted to be a programmer, even though I was "only" in technical support (which notably did not include developer/API support).
So, in the beginning, I felt mostly a sense of being overwhelmed, until I invested a significant amount of time learning the platform. I was always intrigued by the possibilities that were available, but I did feel like quitting a few times, thinking I could never catch up. I kept going and eventually found a place where I was comfortable, yet could continue as much as I wanted.
> Suggestion for becoming salesforce
expert
It's been said "If you want to become an expert at something, teach it to someone else." I learned all of the Salesforce essentials by teaching others; I've had only one formal class, technically "ADM 101" (which I don't think is offered any longer), 13 years ago when I first onboarded. I spent the first three years in technical support, handling over 20,000 cases during that time. I taught people reports, configuration, administration, and more. I sent links to documents and knowledge articles that I would often read myself to make sure they're adequate for the situation at hand.
If you're only studying for a certification, or to become a developer, etc, you'll eventually get good, but to become great you need to teach. Go on the Salesforce Stack Exchange or Developer Community, find questions that you don't know the answer to, but think you could find, and then post an answer. Always try to test your work beforehand in your developer org. The more questions you successfully answer, the more you'll learn as a result. And, as always, make sure that you teach correct information. If you don't do the research, don't test the results, then you're not learning anything, and potentially even harming other people's learning.
Also, not everyone is a teacher. And if not, that's okay, too. Maybe you can just read a lot of questions and answers, and try to duplicate the effort in your developer org. The more code you write, the better you'll become. Also, if you're not sure if a particular method is the correct way, or if there might be a better way, do leverage the Salesforce Stack Exchange and Community Forums. By asking questions, and understanding the answers, you'll gain valuable experience that will eventually help you become an expert.
Finally, experiment. Do a lot of crazy things to see what works and what doesn't. Consider building an application or two, and try to make it functional. See what you can make the platform do, then see if you can make the platform do that thing better. The more experiments you perform, the better you'll become.
> whats the Advice for new Salesforce developer
A new Salesforce developer needs to be an experienced Salesforce administrator and an experienced developer in at least one other technology. Salesforce is relatively unforgiving in many aspects, and the worst thing you can do for yourself, your clients, and your users is to think that Salesforce can be your first programming language. Salesforce is not a beginner's programming platform. At minimum, a Salesforce developer should be able to fully administer the Salesforce platform, including running reports, setting up users and sharing, custom objects, modifying the user interface, and so on. You need to understand how these work, or you'll just end up with a bunch of questions about how the code is supposed to work.
You also need to understand how
computers work at a programming level. Writing your first application with no
knowledge of programming will lead to incredibly inefficient code, which runs
the risks of hitting CPU limits, heap limits, query limits, and so on. The
platform is a shared resource, so many of the things you can get away in other
languages you can't get away with in Salesforce. At minimum, I would recommend
learning either Java or C#, both of which are similar to Salesforce, as well as
HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, as those are the building blocks for the Salesforce
UI, and finally, learning at least one flavor of SQL, such as MySQL,
PostgreSQL, or something else.
I myself came from a background
that included twenty years of programming before I ever knew what Salesforce
even was, including programming in BASIC, C, C++, Forth, Java, JavaScript,
HTML, CSS, Visual Basic, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, Lua, Intel Assembler, Turbo
Pascal, LogoWriter, MySQL, and probably a few others. Understanding how
computers organize memory, control structures, classes, and more are all
vitally important. These resources are at a premium in Salesforce, so if you
don't know what you're doing, it's very easy to create code that performs
poorly or crashes frequently.
> Happiness in one word
Ohana. I first heard of the word
from Disney's Lilo and Stitch movie, and more recently, Salesforce has adopted
the term to mean the family of Salesforce users, administrators, developers,
and all other community members that participate in Salesforce events and helps
each other learn more about Salesforce and to improve their local communities
through charity events and donations. It makes me happy knowing that I'm able
to use my expertise to help my ohana in the way that I know best, by teaching
what I know to a newer generation of administrators, developers, and users of
Salesforce technology, and I would encourage anyone looking for happiness to find
their ohana. We are stronger together than we are alone.
Success story of: Deepika Khanna :
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Current Profile: Senior Salesforce developer in Dallas,tx
Success Story :
I started my career as a Java
developer and after couple of years of Java development, one of my close friend
(he was a siebel developer) introduced me to salesforce and helped me to
understand the basics of salesforce. Then i started learning salesforce on my
own. I came across Udemy soon after and there was a great demand of
salesforce courses on that platform during that time. So I created a salesforce
admin certification course on Udemy and it became a huge success. After
the success of my first course, i launched lot of other courses
related to Salesforce and they did pretty well .
2 years ago, i started my own website and my blog. Website is doing pretty good these days.Lot of students are enjoying the courses and my teaching style .
Goal:
My goal is to help more and more students to gain technical skills which will help them to grow in their career.
Links:
Email Us: info@mytutorialrack.com
Success story of: Amit
Salesforce Mvp:Amit
1.Your current profile
I am working in IBM, I provide solutions to meet customer requirements using Salesforce. Developing code and for complex UI and designing APIs are my key responsibilities. Advising on coding practices, configuration and administration are other tasks which keep me busy.
Apart from working to get paid, I spend few hours on the developer forum. I am
an active contributor from couple of years and answered 5300+ queries, of which
1100+ of them were recognized as the best answer. I am regular
blogger at http://amitsalesforce.blogspot.com.
I have created a product, “Code Coverage Report” which is available for a free download at App exchange. I am also Co-Organizer of Farmington Hills Salesforce Developer Group.
2.When you have chosen
Salesforce as your career?
In 2011
3.What do you want to learn next?
AI in salesforce
4.How many Certifications you have?
7
5.Suggestion for becoming salesforce expert
Trailhead is one of the best tool became Salesforce Expert
6.whats the Advice for new Salesforce developer
I will advice new developer to connect on local Salesforce Group and Start using Trailhead.
7.Happiness in one word
#SalesforceOhana :)
Personal Blog Links:
http://amitsalesforce.blogspot.com/
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