Marcelo is available for hire

Marcelo Marsson Gonçalves da Costa

Verified Expert in Engineering

Salesforce Developer

Location

Brisbane, Australia

Toptal Member Since

April 4, 2016

Marcelo is an experienced, highly skilled Salesforce developer and architect. He has worked on big, mind-blowing projects for some great companies. His previous clients and employers include Embraer, The Warehouse, Les Mills, Kotahi, Meeta Web, and more. Marcelo is 23x Salesforce certified and eager to share his platform knowledge. He has experience in the most complex business scenarios and how to implement them in a scalable and performant way in the Salesforce platform.

Salesforce SOQL/SOSL Visualforce Apex Agile Software Development Salesforce SOAP API Salesforce REST API Salesforce Dataloader iOS Objective-C Salesforce API

Portfolio

Datacom

Salesforce

Mult-e/EMBRAER

iOS

Simova

iOS, Objective-C

Experience

Salesforce Dataloader - 12 years Visualforce - 10 years Salesforce - 9 years Apex - 9 years Digital Transformation - 7 years Agile Software Development - 7 years Salesforce API - 4 years Continuous Integration (CI) - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Salesforce, Apex, Salesforce SOQL/SOSL, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce DX, Salesforce API, Salesforce SOAP API, Salesforce Apex, Salesforce Dataloader, Salesforce REST API

The most amazing...

...application I've ever coded was an operation and maintenance manual control system for the most prominent aircraft company in Brazil.

Work Experience

Senior Developer/Technical Lead

2016 - PRESENT

Datacom

Implemented the customer portal.
Architected solutions.
Implemented SSO.
Built Apex controllers on portals.
Utilized Jitterbit and REST Web Services.

Technologies: Salesforce

Lead iOS Developer

2011 - 2016

Mult-e/EMBRAER

Developed a application for EMBRAER for reading and updating the aircraft manual, which reduced company mailing expenses by over USD $200,000 per year.
Implemented the capability to download big files with CRC checking and minimal memory usage.
Developed a system for updating manuals on demand with seamless CRC checking and minimal memory footprint.
Supported, fixed bugs, and provided continuous improvements for the application.

Technologies: iOS

iOS Developer

2010 - 2011

Simova

Developed a time tracking application based for a lead Brazilian time tracking company, using Core Data for remote synchronization and offline updates on the user schedule.
Developed a DOM parsing library for information extraction on home pages.
Designed a POC application using Layar to write a map kit implementation of an augmented reality application that helped field representatives to discover which company had the best mobile coverage on the desired area.
Created an augmented reality back-end server for POIs.
Included a Core Location and geolocation-based search feature.

Technologies: iOS, Objective-C

Trainee/Developer

2008 - 2009

Tricode Netherlands

Helped develop Tricode's target marketing platform using Gigaspaces and Java.
Used Gigaspaces' best practices for achieving linear scalability.
Helped implement cloud infrastructure and deployment for applications using Amazon EC2.
Built media interaction with customers using Java media framework.
Optimized offline content storage and logic.

Technologies: Eclipse, GigaSpaces, Java

Experience

Salesforce Certifications

Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer
(August 3, 2015)

Salesforce Certified Administrator
(December 22, 2015)

Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder
(October 20, 2016)

Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I
(December 8, 2016)

Salesforce Certified Data Architecture & Management Designer
(May 18, 2017)

Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle & Deployment Designer
(June 2, 2017)

Salesforce Certified Application Architect
(June 15, 2017)

Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Designer
(June 15, 2017)

Salesforce Certified Integration Architecture Designer
(September 1, 2017)

Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II
(Feb 1,2018)

Single Sign-on on Salesforce/Microsoft AD

Architect and sole developer on the implementation of a single sign-on solution for the Salesforce platform for The Warehouse Group in Auckland, New Zealand, setting the federated user authentication up with Microsoft AD.

Shared Access Signature Authentication Token Generation for APEX Platforms

Developed a token generator for SAS authentication for future projects that authenticates HTTP requests for BizTalk and Azure Platform. As there is some real time calculation and cryptography needed, custom apex classes for generating the token had to be built from scratch.

Salesforce Gigya SSO Integration

Set up SSO integration between Gigya (IDP) and Salesfoce (SP). IDP initiated single sign-on with user generation control using Jitterbit as ESB.

This was a challenging project; even though it had some drawbacks, we finished it up quite successfully.

Les Mills JIRA/Salesforce Integration

Responsible for the POC and later implementation JIRA/Salesforce integration on Les Mills International, for synchronizing cases and Issues in a seamless fashion through both platforms using Salesforce/JIRA Cloud connector.

Kotahi Costumer Portal

Responsible for the technical design and system architecture of a customer community responsible for extracting data from an External datasource using Lightning Connect. The project is currently being brilliantly implemented by Datacom developers.

Skills

Languages

Apex, Objective-C

Frameworks

Visualforce

Libraries/APIs

Salesforce SOAP API, Salesforce REST API, Salesforce API

Tools

Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce DX, Salesforce Dataloader

Paradigms

Agile Software Development, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Development (CD)

Platforms

Salesforce, Salesforce SOQL/SOSL, iOS

Other

Remote Work, Salesforce Apex, Digital Transformation, Business Models

Education

2020 - 2021

Graduate Certificate in Digital Transformation in Business Administration

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Melbourne, Australia

2005 - 2012

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Universidade do Vale do Paraíba - Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

Salesforce

DECEMBER 2015 - PRESENT

Salesforce Certified Administrator

Salesforce

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