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Akshay Mewada

Verified Expert in Engineering

Architect and Developer

Location

Berlin, Germany

Toptal Member Since

December 29, 2022

Akshay is a certified Salesforce architect with nine years of experience working on various enterprise-level projects. He also has experience in domains such as quote-to-cash, CPQ, CLM, billing management, and taxation products in Salesforce. Akshay specializes in Salesforce integrations and solutions that deliver business values.

Integration Salesforce.com Administration Salesforce REST API Visual Studio Code (VS Code)Software Development CPQ Salesforce Lightning MacOS Jira Confluence Notion GitLab Bitbucket Postman Linux Apttus CLM

Portfolio

LeadIQ

Salesforce, Integration, Lightning Components, Batch Apex, GitLab...

Tata Consultancy Services

Salesforce, CPQ, Salesforce Lightning, Apex Triggers

Apttus

Apttus Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), CPQ, Order Management, Taxation...

Experience

Salesforce - 9 years Salesforce Apex - 8 years Integration - 4 years Application Architecture - 3 years APIs - 3 years Data Architecture - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Jira, Confluence, Notion, GitLab, Bitbucket, Salesforce.com Data Loader, Postman, Linux

The most amazing...

...thing I've architected and designed is a product for data enrichment in Salesforce, helping the sales and marketing team work efficiently.

Work Experience

Senior Salesforce Consultant

2020 - 2022

LeadIQ

Led the data enrichment product development on the Salesforce platform and the entire system architecture.
Collaborated closely with the business stakeholders and product head to understand the real-time challenges of end users and architected Salesforce solutions accordingly.
Architected the REST integration of the external system with Salesforce for data analytics and to support core enrichment features.
Owned the Salesforce security review clearance of the product and launched it on AppExchange.
Optimized the core enrichment feature by 41%, which reduced the time taken by 99.9%.
Performed code reviews and ensured the quality and scalability of the product.

Technologies: Salesforce, Integration, Lightning Components, Batch Apex, GitLab, CI/CD Pipelines, REST, GraphQL

Lead Salesforce Consultant

2019 - 2020

Tata Consultancy Services

Helped implement and customize Apttus CPQ on Salesforce for the end customer, Swift.
Created technical design documentation and design solutions for real-time business challenges and efficiency, collaborating closely with counterparts from Belgium for requirement gathering.
Composed detailed technical documentation and dashboards to provide a customer and stakeholders with a clear view of the implementation, complexity, and maintainability.

Technologies: Salesforce, CPQ, Salesforce Lightning, Apex Triggers

Salesforce Consultant

2015 - 2019

Apttus

Collaborated with various enterprise-level Apttus customers in different domains and implemented and customized a quote-to-cash solution on Salesforce as per business needs.
Provided Apttus products, including configure, price, and quote contract lifecycle management, order management, and advanced approvals on Salesforce for end customers.
Handled Salesforce deployments and migrations for customers with large Salesforce ecosystem environments.
Implemented asynchronous apex that was schedulable, batchable, and queueable for long-running and complex processes.

Technologies: Apttus Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), CPQ, Order Management, Taxation, Quote-to-cash (QTC/Q2C)

Experience

LeadIQ Refresh

https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N3A00000G0z4XUAR&tab=e

LeadIQ helps eliminate incomplete and stale Salesforce data so the sales and marketing teams can trust their CRM. By empowering teams with better data, they can focus on accounts and prospects that fit the company's ICP.

Apttus CPQ Implementation for SWIFT

I lead the team of Salesforce engineers for the Apttus CPQ implementation on Salesforce. The tailor-made solution provided the client's sales team with required information at the quote level at a glance and made the overall business process very efficient.

Skills

Platforms

Salesforce, MacOS, Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Other

Salesforce Certified Developer, Apex Triggers, Salesforce Apex, Integration, APIs, Salesforce.com Administration, Cloud Services, Salesforce.com Data Loader, Software Development, CCNA, IP Networks, Data Architecture, Data Management, CI/CD Pipelines, CPQ, Salesforce Lightning, Order Management, Taxation, Quote-to-cash (QTC/Q2C), Salesforce Service Cloud, Access Control

Libraries/APIs

Salesforce REST API

Paradigms

Application Architecture, Management, REST

Languages

Java, GraphQL

Frameworks

Lightning Components

Tools

Jira, Confluence, Notion, GitLab, Bitbucket, Postman, Batch Apex, Apttus Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)

Storage

Databases

Education

2011 - 2014

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

Charotar University of Science and Technology - Gujarat, India

Certifications

MARCH 2022 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Application Architect

Salesforce

MARCH 2022 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 2022 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect

Salesforce

DECEMBER 2021 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 2018 - PRESENT

Salesforce Platform Developer I

Salesforce

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