Arun Menon
Verified Expert in Engineering
Salesforce Developer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Toptal member since December 8, 2020
Arun is a senior Salesforce developer with 13 years of experience in software development. He currently holds eight Salesforce certifications and has extensive experience in the administration, configuration, implementation, and support of the Salesforce.com CRM and force.com platform. Arun has expertise in Salesforce integration with third-party systems using API and middleware, and he is experienced in implementing version control and CI/CD processes.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Salesforce DX, GitHub, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Slack, Windows
The most amazing...
...Salesforce project I've worked on was for a leading bank in Australia. The project tested the limitations of the Salesforce platform.
Work Experience
Senior Salesforce Developer
DXC Technology
- Worked with several government agencies on their critical Salesforce implementation and received good feedback from clients about my performance.
- Used Jira for user stories and bug tracking and Bitbucket for version control,.
- Delivered a government project for COVID-19 contact tracing on time and with zero bugs in user acceptance testing. It was a high-profile and time-critical project.
- Integrated several external systems using APIs and middleware like Jitterbit and Mulesoft.
- Developed solutions to overcome Salesforce limitations for a project that processed millions of records in Salesforce for a leading banking client.
Salesforce Consultant
Dorner Informatik
- Worked with several customers from Germany and Europe. Managed a team of offshore developers.
- Developed several AppExchange apps and helped clients through the entire publishing process, including fixing security review issues.
- Developed several complex packages involving developing 50 or more Lightning components.
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
- Worked with clients from Australia and the UK in the banking, retail, and utility domains.
- Developed Salesforce practice by cross-training people from other technologies.
- Implemented complex applications involving migrating millions of data to Salesforce and integrating with external systems using API.
Senior Developer
Suyati Technologies
- Contributed to both .NET and Salesforce projects for the leading publishing firm in the US.
- Developed a Salesforce team by training and mentoring interns.
- Developed the first AppExchange application for the company and handled the entire app publishing process, including security review.
Experience
Custom Knowledge Integration
The app has the following features:
1) Add the component to any Salesforce object layout
2) Link the search result with the Salesforce record
3) Provide feedback to the client about each search result
4) Show search results based on the field values in the Salesforce record when loading the page
Lightning Community Upgrade using LWC
• Handled payment reconciliation process using apex batch job and the data coming from MuleSoft.
• Created Platform Events for passing data from MuleSoft to Salesforce to notify Salesforce about the updated data in the third-party system.
Salesforce Remediation and Tableau Integration
• Worked on integrating Tableau charts in Salesforce using JavaScript. Created a generic configurable component for loading client’s different Tableau charts.
Salesforce App Enhancement
• Development of Salesforce AppExchange product that integrates the customer’s Salesforce instance with their TeamViewer account and creates TeamViewer cases and sessions from within Salesforce.
• Integrating the TeamViewer API to provide remote access to the customer system from Salesforce.
Banking Client Salesforce Customization
• Large data migration from CSV file stored in network location to Salesforce using
Apex data loader command line. Since the file contains millions of records and file
size is too large to process, we had to split the file into multiple chunks and then
imported it into Salesforce.
• Creation of custom Visualforce page to display in contact layout for users to search customers investment details in a more interactive way.
Salesforce App for Mass Emailing
• To and fro synchronization of campaign members between Salesforce and CleverReach by manual and batch process.
• Blacklisting email address in CleverReach from Salesforce.
• Creating CleverReach attributes from Salesforce.
• Fetching reports from CleverReach in Salesforce.
• Importing campaigns from CleverReach in Salesforce.
Greenfield Sales and Service Cloud Implementation
Data Cloud Proof of Concept
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
MG University - Kochi, Kerala, India
Certifications
Salesforce Certified Field Service Consultant
Salesforce.com
Salesforce Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer
Salesforce.com
Salesforce Certified Experience Cloud Consultant
Salesforce.com
Salesforce Certified Community Cloud Consultant
Salesforce.com
Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II
Salesforce.com
Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder
Salesforce.com
Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant
Salesforce.com
Salesforce Certified Platform Developer
Salesforce.com
Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant
Salesforce.com
Salesforce Certified Administrator
Salesforce.com
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Salesforce API, Salesforce Development, REST API
Tools
Apex, Lightning Communities, Visualforce, Flow, Salesforce Platform Events, Salesforce CPQ, Salesforce DX, GitHub, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Consulting, Slack Development, Bitbucket, Pardot
Languages
JavaScript, Apex, SOQL, APEX Code, CSS, .NET
Frameworks
Lightning Components, Visualforce, .NET, ASP.NET
Paradigms
Automation, Acceptance Testing
Platforms
Salesforce Design, Salesforce Experience Cloud, Web Development, Salesforce Health Cloud, Windows Development, Visual Studio Development
Other
Salesforce Apex, Salesforce Lightning, Force.com, Salesforce Development, Cloud Engineering, CRM Implementation (Salesforce), NPSP, Reporting, SFDC Configuration, SFDC Customization, Salesforce Community, Salesforce Development, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Integration, Customer Portals, APIs, Salesforce Service Cloud, Aura, AppExchange Security Review, Salesforce Development, API Integration, Managed Packages, CSV, Omni-channel, Data Modeling, CI/CD Pipelines, Data Migration, WCF Web Services, SLDS, Salesforce Development, Field Service, Data Cloud
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