Keerthan Ganapathi, Developer in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Keerthan Ganapathi

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Salesforce Developer

Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Toptal Member Since
June 23, 2021

Keerthan Ganapathi is a senior Salesforce developer with 12+ years of experience building enterprise solutions on the Salesforce platform. As a 11x Salesforce Certified Application Architect, he specializes in designing and developing highly scalable solutions in the Salesforce ecosystem. Keerthan's solutions have helped clients transform their business processes and get digitized.

Portfolio

Freelance Client
Salesforce, Certified Salesforce Administrator, Salesforce REST API...
Freelance
Salesforce Sales Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), JavaScript...
Freelance
Salesforce, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Team Management, API Integration...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), GitHub, MacOS, Salesforce

The most amazing...

...solution I've delivered was a digital transformation of the vendor onboarding process on Salesforce Experience Cloud.

Work Experience

Salesforce Expert

2022 - 2023
Freelance Client
  • Spearheaded the development and architecture of a real-time multilingual chat translation application within Salesforce, both as a developer and a solution architect.
  • Collaborated closely with the client's business and technical teams to conceptualize, construct, and continually elevate the application's user experience and features.
  • Directed the successful deployment of the translation app for Salesforce across various enterprise clients, encompassing thousands of sales agents who effectively utilized this application.
  • Engaged with all the customers of clients efficiently, ensuring their seamless transition onto the advanced translation app for the Salesforce platform.
Technologies: Salesforce, Certified Salesforce Administrator, Salesforce REST API, Salesforce Apex, Apex Triggers, API Integration, Development, Salesforce AppExchange, AppExchange Security Review, Google Translate API, Salesforce Service Cloud, Design Patterns, System Design, REST APIs

Senior Salesforce Developer

2021 - 2022
Freelance
  • Led the development of a highly scalable solution to digitize the vendor onboarding experience for an eCommerce company and then for 20+ entities across the globe.
  • Reduced the average time for vendors to get onboarded to Salesforce from three weeks to less than 10 mins.
  • Ensured a highly configurable solution, providing complete flexibility for individual entities in different countries to enable the process as they wish.
  • Built a solid Salesforce team locally, including a global culture that enabled the team to collaborate with other Salesforce developers and admins working from different locations.
  • Led the migration of one of the client's acquisitions to the Salesforce.com platform, mapping the entire business process from Microsoft Dynamics to Salesforce.com.
  • Collaborated with the computer security incident response team (CSIRT) to ensure that data policies and GDPR were actively monitored and that sensitive data was not leaking out of the system.
  • Led the refactoring and redesign of an existing implementation to scale it in a way that can handle exponential transactions on the platform.
  • Revamped the entire implementation in the configuration-driven approach, providing capabilities to scale with changing requirements and increasing transactions on the platform.
Technologies: Salesforce Sales Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), JavaScript, Salesforce Lightning, Salesforce, System Architecture Design, Solution Design, Business Process Automation, Apex Triggers, API Integration, Apex, Triggers, Salesforce Community, Lightning Components, Salesforce API, Software as a Service (SaaS), Salesforce REST API, Communities, JavaScript 6, Batch Apex, HTML, Hotjar, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Architecture, Software Consulting, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Team Leadership, Scrum, Salesforce System Administration, APIs, CRM APIs, Certified Salesforce Administrator, Customer Engagement, CSS

Senior Salesforce Developer

2019 - 2021
Freelance
  • Grew the Salesforce team from the ground up, from one to 20+ team members.
  • Oversaw all efforts to map business requirements to technical solutions.
  • Implemented business process automation. Improved processes to streamline development and ensure every change is carefully monitored and validated.
  • Enhanced existing solutions built on Salesforce.com and managed the technical solutions that affect 20+ entities using Salesforce.com.
  • Constantly improved the technical debts on Salesforce to make sure that the platform scales to the fullest extent possible and has the ability to handle five million orders being processed every minute.
Technologies: Salesforce, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Team Management, API Integration, System Architecture Design, Solution Design, Business Process Automation, Apex Triggers, Apex, Triggers, Salesforce REST API, Salesforce API

Senior Salesforce Developer

2016 - 2019
Freelance
  • Developed an in-house business process management (BPM) application that was deployed to almost every Free Zone entity in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
  • Assisted in getting the BPM application approved for deployment on Salesforce AppExchange.
  • Worked on digital transformation projects for major companies in the GCC, enabling front-office digital transformations with BPM and then building integrations with back ends and payment gateways.
Technologies: Salesforce Sales Cloud, Batch Apex, Visualforce, JavaScript, API Integration, Team Management, Business Process Management (BPM), Salesforce, Salesforce AppExchange, Salesforce Apex, System Architecture Design, Solution Design, Business Process Automation, Apex Triggers, Apex, Triggers, Front-office Transformation, Salesforce API, Salesforce REST API

Senior Software Engineer

2014 - 2016
Freelance
  • Collaborated with the team in developing a configure-price-quote (CPQ) solution built on force.com to enable a quote-to-cash (QTC) process for the healthcare business.
  • Worked on complex integrations with multiple back ends, including Oracle, SAP, and other ERP systems.
  • Enhanced an existing Salesforce Sales Cloud implementation.
Technologies: JavaScript, Triggers, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Visualforce, Batch Apex, Salesforce, Apex Triggers, Salesforce Apex, Solution Design, API Integration, Apex, Salesforce REST API, Salesforce API, ETL

Software Engineer

2012 - 2014
Freelance
  • Played a key role in a wide range of enhancement projects for an existing Salesforce Sales Cloud implementation.
  • Built a subversion (SVN) app called CVT on the Force.com platform (100% native), adopted by all the business divisions.
  • Implemented a completely custom pricing model for a client with a configuration-driven approach.
Technologies: Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce, Batch Apex, Visualforce, Triggers, Subversion (SVN), Pricing Models, Apex Triggers, Salesforce Apex, API Integration, Apex, HubSpot, Visualforce Pages, Python

HexaBPM

A business process management solution built on force.com for the front-office transformation of Free Zone entities in the retail, real estate, healthcare, and travel and hospitability sectors. As a senior developer, I took care of implementing all the major product change requests and then rolling them out to clients.

Salesforce Migration Project

Migrated a CRM application from Microsoft Dynamics to Salesforce CRM, which involved mapping all the business processes from MS Dynamics to Salesforce.com. I also enhanced and streamlined existing processes according to clients' standards.

Partner Onboarding

Collaborated on an experience cloud solution for 20+ brands under an eCommerce giant to get themselves on to Quick Commerce solutions.
Partners can now sign up in less than 10 minutes to complete all the legalities.
Completely integrated with back ends to enable partners to get online in less than 10 mins after e-signing contracts.

Languages

Apex, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript 6, Python

Frameworks

Lightning Components, Visualforce

Libraries/APIs

Salesforce API, Salesforce REST API, Google Translate API, REST APIs

Tools

Salesforce Sales Cloud, Batch Apex, IntelliJ IDEA, Visualforce Pages, Qualtrics, Hotjar, GitHub, Subversion (SVN), Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel

Paradigms

ETL, Scrum, Design Patterns

Platforms

Salesforce, Salesforce SOQL/SOSL, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Amazon Web Services (AWS), MacOS

Other

Business Process Automation, Solution Design, System Architecture Design, Salesforce Apex, Salesforce Lightning, Apex Triggers, API Integration, Customer Engagement, Front-office Transformation, Team Management, Business Process Management (BPM), Pricing Models, Data Architecture, Salesforce Platform Developer II Certification, Certified Salesforce Administrator, Triggers, Integration, Software as a Service (SaaS), Payment APIs, Software Consulting, Architecture, Team Leadership, Salesforce System Administration, Salesforce.com Administration, APIs, CRM APIs, CRM Systems, System Design, Salesforce AppExchange, Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder, Middleware, Communities, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), AppExchange Security Review, Salesforce Community, HubSpot, Development, Salesforce Service Cloud

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

2008 - 2012

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University - Belgaum, India

NOVEMBER 2023 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified JavaScript Developer I

Salesforce.com

JUNE 2019 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Application Architect

Salesforce.com

JUNE 2019 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer

Salesforce.com

JUNE 2019 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Designer

Salesforce.com

JANUARY 2018 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II

Salesforce.com

AUGUST 2017 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant

Salesforce.com

AUGUST 2017 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator

Salesforce.com

JULY 2017 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Platform Developer

Salesforce.com

JULY 2017 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant

Salesforce.com

MARCH 2017 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder

Salesforce.com

JANUARY 2015 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Administrator

Salesforce.com

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