The person
behind the writing.

I'm Mandar — a Salesforce architect (and an engineer at heart). I spent more than 16 years in Salesforce ecosystem. If I remember correctly, I started my journey when sControls were depricated and Salesforce launched Visualforce.

Those days, it was hard to find resources and we had to rely on documentation and community forums. Even the communities were small, it was like living in a small town :). We recognized most of community members and it was a great way to learn and grow. The platform has evolved so much since then, and I've had the privilege of being part of that journey. Though I have worked on platform for so many years, I do have my critics about the platform :)

Apart from Salesforce, I'm also interested in open source, agentic systems, and reactive programming. The reason for coming up with this blog is to share my knowledge (whatever little I have) and experience. I hope this will be helpful to others who are also interested in these areas. I know with AI knowledge has become a commodity and its important to focus on the human side of building and sharing insights.

Certifications

• Salesforce Certified System Architect
• Salesforce Certified Application Architect
• Platform Developer I & II
• AI Specialist
• MuleSoft Certified Developer

Currently exploring

• Project Reactor & reactive programming
• Agentic systems & LLM orchestration
• Building on AppExchange
• MarTech architecture with open source stack