Akshay Poddar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Salesforce Developer
Akshay is a Certified Salesforce Developer with over six years of real-world development experience covering Salesforce implementations spanning AppExchange product development, service, nonprofit, community, Salesforce Einstein, and Force.com app cloud. He is an expert in design and development with Apex, VF, Aura, LWC, and integration patterns. Akshay has conceptualized, designed, developed, packaged, and submitted several AppExchange free-listing and paid products.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Salesforce, Salesforce Community, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Bitbucket, Windows, MacOS, Postman
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is an AppExchange-published wealth management product integrated with portfolio management platforms.
Work Experience
Application Development Senior Analyst
Accenture
- Designed, conceptualized, and developed AppExchange free-listed reusable components from scratch and published them on the AppExchang platform.
- Collaborated with an onshore development team to understand their day-to-day development activities and the production problems they deal with.
- Wrote, updated, and maintained a technical program, end-user documentation, and operational procedures.
- Developed fixes for high-priority production issues and participated in a change control process to complete deployment.
- Customized and configured Salesforce solutions. Also, I integrated different systems with Salesforce.
- Participated in recruitment, training, and grooming resources to level up in the area of technology.
Application Development Analyst
Accenture
- Customized and configured Salesforce solutions. Also, I integrated different systems with Salesforce.
- Developed Apex classes, Lightning components, Visual Force pages, and Apex triggers. Upskilled a team and helped them understand business requirement documents (BRD) and an integration process relating to different capabilities.
- Provided maintenance to an application codebase by analyzing, debugging, diagnosing, and resolving defects and errors.
Application Development Associate
Accenture
- Participated in all phases of a project, from planning to project launch.
- Created technical specification documents following business requirements.
- Provided solutions by developing proposals and participating in research and development (R&D) activities as clients requested.
Experience
Record Highlights Component | AppExchange Component Solution for a Large Media Partner
Also, I designed, developed, packaged, and submitted for AppExchange review, conducted security testing using Checkmarx, Zap, and Burp Suite, and maintained the AppExchange product release cycle.
Large Media Partner
I branded the community using OOTB styling features and components and built custom LWC to personalize the community following client needs.
Also, I implemented a photo gallery app functionality for community and internal users that integrates with the AWS S3 bucket and genericized community implementation to support prospective client demos. Finally, I used ExperienceBundle APIs to package the finalized solution for the distribution.
Community Portal for a Healthcare Digital | Healthcare Sector
I gathered, developed, and analyzed business requirements for the portal's solution design. Also, I developed Salesforce features, such as single sign-on (SSO), canvas app integration, and Lightning components, to create a user-friendly portal. The following objects were used with a fully customized user interface:
• Accounts
• Contacts
• Cases
• Knowledge
• Collaboration groups
• Ideas
• Feed items
• Automated case deflection that allows fast processing for thousands of articles by showing relevant and dynamic knowledge articles to the user.
Finally, I created a customized library management component in Lightning to show documents and libraries. I oversaw the entire development lifecycle, from requirement gathering to design, code, testing, and production deployment.
Child Research Institute
I implemented address management and replication functionality integrated with the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) and Mappify external endpoint. Reusable LWC service assets were introduced to boost developer productivity. Also, I designed and implemented a unique record management solution and created and developed many utility LWC components to work inside the Lightning Flows used extensively during user story implementation to reduce the delivery timeline and modularize the solution. Finally, I proposed and implemented an SMS notification service that integrates with Twilio.
Education Cloud for a Large Media Partner
• Designing and implementing processes in Jitterbit Studio to migrate a significant volume of data to Salesforce from an SQL database.
• Migrating more than 100,000 related or unrelated records.
• Working on multiple stages of data and process migration.
• Automating 25% of post and pre-migration work using the JitterScript language.
• Integrated migration processes with Google Drive to store exception or error reports.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Pune - Pune, India
Certifications
Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Designer
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified JavaScript Developer I
Salesforce
Copado Certified Administrator
Copado
Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified Tableau CRM and Einstein Discovery Consultant
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified Experience Cloud Consultant
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified Platform Developer
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified Administrator
Salesforce
Computer Hardware and Networking
Government Polytechnic
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Salesforce API, Salesforce REST API
Tools
Postman, Lightning Design System, Git, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Bitbucket, Salesforce Einstein, Visualforce Pages
Frameworks
Lightning Components, Visualforce
Platforms
Salesforce, Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS, Litify, WordPress
Languages
Apex, Java, JavaScript, C++, SQL
Paradigms
REST, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), DevOps, API Architecture
Storage
Databases, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
Salesforce Community, Certified Salesforce Administrator, Lighting, Salesforce Lightning, Salesforce Apex, Salesforce Cloud Flow, Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder, Force.com, Manual QA, API Testing, API Integration, Salesforce Service Cloud, Jitterbit, Platforms, Web Components, Salesforce AppExchange, User Interface (UI), Back-end, Events, API Connectors, API Design, Microprocessors, Hardware, Network Design, Single Sign-on (SSO), Payment Gateways, Community Clouds, APIs, AppExchange Security Review, Data Matching, NPSP, UX Flows, Data Migration, Jitterbit Data Loader, AdvoLogix
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