James Lentini
Verified Expert in Engineering
Salesforce Developer
New York, NY, United States
Toptal member since July 27, 2020
James has a broad technical skillset with a professional background in full-stack development and over a decade of experience on the Salesforce platform. Proficient in Apex/LWC, he’s also coded front ends from design compositions, built interactive data-driven websites, written ops-related tooling and integrations, and developed features in complex domains such as language parsing, 3D graphics, and computer vision. James learns quickly and thrives on projects with multi-tech needs.
Portfolio
Experience
- Apex - 11 years
- HTML - 10 years
- JavaScript - 10 years
- CSS - 10 years
- Python - 7 years
- PHP - 7 years
- Lightning Components - 4 years
- Node.js - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Atom, Sublime Text, IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PyCharm, Bitbucket, GitHub, Git
The most amazing...
...product I've written was a custom Salesforce email templating system which was more flexible than anything on the market at the time.
Work Experience
Salesforce Developer and Consultant
Nucleus Technologies (Rapid Logistics)
- Created a parametric Rules engine to deep-parse SOQL WHERE clauses and apply custom data context, adding custom functions and other syntax extensions.
- Ported the Ace code editor for use as a Lightning Web Component to support syntax highlighting for the Rules Engine parser,.
- Supported the development team when using the Rules Engine to dynamically select shipping methods.
- Created a system to use NPM for dependency management between modular SFDX feature-sets. Ported codebases from MDAPI to SFDX format.
- Implemented scripts to make SFDX jest unit tests dependency-aware via a package.json file.
Salesforce Developer and Consultant
Rapid Logistics
- Wrote an automatic allocation system to match outbound orders with available inventory across multiple warehouses.
- Created a system to scan barcodes and record scans into a scan session audit trail.
- Developed a system and API to associate scanned values with any record for easy lookup later.
- Built a dynamic user interface to pack orders in a warehouse.
- Created an API that uses organizational data to ensure that asynchronous jobs are run in-order.
Salesforce Developer and Consultant
2U
- Created an automatic license expiration and re-activation system to manage user accounts across more than 20 organizations.
- Implement bulk scripted-deployment and data-migration tools before the advent of SFDX.
- Created Apex-based parametric data sharing across more than 20 organizations using Salesforce-to-Salesforce.
- Generated RSVP links that update campaigns when clicked.
Full-stack Developer and Engineer
International Awards Group
- Collaborated with a graphic designer to convert design compositions into functional web pages.
- Implemented the You Be the Judge website, where users could register an account and judge competition entries.
- Implemented a winners’ showcase website which displayed video and image entries from the company database.
- Created a Gimp plugin for generating bulk graphics from database output.
- Wrote a dynamic UI for uploading files to a media server.
Salesforce Developer and Consultant
Chabad.org
- Created the email templating engine for Chabad.org’s Scribe product, which renders Visualforce components with arbitrarily configurable data context.
- Implemented JWT-based authentication to an external payment system.
- Provided implementation ideas, consulted on coding best practices, and helped less experienced developers.
Salesforce Administrator and Developer
TheInfoPro
- Wrote a WordPress plugin for Salesforce lead capturing.
- Used Apex to implement a custom opt-out system for outgoing emails.
- Helped ensure data integrity on a database of 120,000+ leads and 10,000+ contacts.
Technical Writer
Shoap Technical Services
- Wrote user manuals for numerous point-of-sale devices.
- Composed user manuals and help-desk training material for networking hardware, online web interfaces, and software APIs.
- Edited and maintained content for an online learning management system.
Software Developer and Research Assistant
Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Created a prototype system that combined thermal images, visual images, 3D laser offset data, and temperature probe data to assess the core temperature of food on a moving conveyor belt.
- Developed a real-time imaging system that used color segmentation to detect foreign particles in food process streams.
- Coded a hardware control system that used actuators, cameras, and lasers to generate 3D profiles of objects.
Experience
Front End of a Company Website
https://web.archive.org/web/20190825002526/http:/arclabusa.com/Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, jQuery, OpenCV, React Redux
Tools
Salesforce DX, Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, PyCharm, WebStorm, IntelliJ IDEA, Sublime Text, Atom, Visual Studio, Microsoft Word, Adobe FrameMaker, Apache
Languages
JavaScript, Python, Apex, HTML, CSS, Java, C, SOQL, C++, PHP, Ruby
Frameworks
Lightning Components, Visualforce, Django, OAuth 2
Platforms
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Windows, MacOS, Linux
Storage
MySQL
Other
I/O, MadCap Flare
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