Chakra Dhari Gadige
Austin,TX
Summary
Highly skilled and results-driven Salesforce Technical Architect with over 14 +years of experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing Salesforce solutions for complex enterprise environments.
Expertise in customizing Salesforce applications, leading technical teams, and delivering scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions. Adept in aligning technical strategy with business objectives and ensuring seamless integration across platforms.
Certified Salesforce.com Application Architect, Certified Salesforce.com System Architect PF DEV I & PF DEV II Certified Developer, and 14 X Salesforce certified Developer With close to 14+ years of professional experience in Application Designing and Development.
Helping design and deliver healthy implementations for enterprise-grade customers using Salesforce products.
Recommend the best solution for a given set of requirements and articulate the trade-offs involved in choosing one solution over another.
Strong knowledge and expertise in integrating Salesforce with other technologies and vice versa, as well as experience with governance and development operations which will empower business and IT to work together towards a stronger future
Plays a crucial role in designing and implementing complex solutions on the Salesforce platform and responsible for understanding business requirements, analyzing the technical feasibility of proposed solutions, and designing scalable and robust architecture.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Salesforce Technical Lead
Splunk
Austin, TX
08.2021 - Current
- Responsible for the overall design of the functional Salesforce.com solution and for recommending best practice solution designs based on client business needs
- Work closely with the Project Management Office and various business stakeholders to drive and/or facilitate development of requirements, specifications, and use cases for assigned projects
- Leading the Salesforce Team, Suggesting/Mentoring team about practices and performing code reviews
- Design & Delivery Responsibilities for Provisioning and Fulfillment of Multiple Cloud Products
- Guide solution based on an informed decision making between business and implementation teams to address trade-offs between out of the box Salesforce platform features
- Implementing and supporting large scale, technically complex solutions on Salesforce and associated ecosystems
- Coach, Align, collaborate and coordinate with implementation Teams to deliver seamless value to the business
- Callout to back end Product Systems for Provisioning By Building and Firing Platform Events with Custom Payload Which can be accessed by Mulesoft
- Processing the Callback from Platform Events, Update the Product Fulfillment status information
- Lead the team and make sure of the product delivery to the business stakeholders
- Performing code reviews and making sure the team is following Salesforce and Splunk standard coding practices
- Integrating the Salesforce platform with internal and external systems like Mulesoft, CPQ, Calendly, DocuSign & REST based endpoints
- Creating and using RESTful web services and calling API's in salesforce platform
- Using Admin features of salesforce for data security & controls
Salesforce Tech Lead
TriNet
Austin, TX
04.2019 - 08.2021
- Work closely with the Project Management Office and various business stakeholders to drive and/or facilitate development of requirements, specifications, and use cases for assigned projects
- Building Solution Architecture and IT solution road-map for Salesforce oriented digital transformations
- Active collaboration with existing clients on hitherto business pain points, providing solutions and building trust
- Follow and understand new Salesforce product and technical capabilities resulting from product releases and acquisitions
- Leading the Salesforce Team, Suggesting/Mentoring team about practices and performing code reviews
- Providing architectural insights for topics related to business process implementation, integration patterns, high data volumes, scalability, security
- Responsible for the overall design of the functional Salesforce.com solution and for recommending best practice solution designs based on client business needs
- Able to work on multiple projects and initiatives with different/competing timelines and demands
STAFF SW Engineer, Salesforce
VISA
Austin, TX
09.2016 - 04.2019
- Design and develop solutions for our business partners using Salesforce CRM
- Responsibilities include the creation of conceptual approach, technical analysis, fit-gap assessment, design, development, unit testing, deploy and support activities
- Aligning business goals with value delivery via DevOps
- Coordinating and Supporting Solution Architects on the overall architecture vision
- Organizing workshops about user experience design with stakeholders
- Work closely with the Project Management Office and various business stakeholders to drive and/or facilitate development of requirements, specifications, and use cases for assigned projects
- Able to work on multiple projects and initiatives with different/competing timelines and demands
- Engage with and support the Global Sales and Merchant Sales organizations to deliver projects and provide support services
- Lead collaboration activities with business partners on requirements elaboration, workflow design, configuration, and business re-engineering
- Manage and collaborate with product vendors and systems integrators on delivery of solutions
- Work with delivery partners to review and finalize technical specifications, code review, version management, and implementation related activities
- Collaborate with business partners on user acceptance testing
- Work with limited direction, usually within a complex environment, to drive delivery of solutions and meet service levels
- Collaborate across global businesses and technology organizations, providing sound business analysis, process, and change leadership
- Mentor junior developers in following best practices
Salesforce.com Sr. Developer
Sunpower
CA, USA
01.2016 - 09.2016
- Worked with the user group for requirement gathering throughout the planning and implementation
- Implemented the requirements on Force.com platform and Force.com IDE Plug-in using Eclipse
- Created new User Accounts and assigned Profiles as per their role in role hierarchy
- Defined Org wide default to restrict access from users
- Customized Page layouts for Standard/Custom objects and assigned Record Types
- Created Data Validation rules and Formulas as per business requirement
- Worked with various salesforce.com Standard objects like Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Cases, Campaigns, Reports, and Dashboards
- Created Workflow Rules to automate Tasks, Email Alerts, Field Updates, time-dependent actions
- Created Reports and Dashboards to track Opportunity pipeline/Stages for Management visibility
- Designed, and developed Apex Classes, Controller Classes, extensions and Apex Triggers for various functional needs in the application
- Designed various WebPages in VisualForce for capturing various customer enquiries and Implemented logic for migrating cases to different queues based on the type of customer enquiry
- Used SOQL & SOSL with consideration to Governor Limits for data manipulation needs of the application using platform database objects
- Environment: Salesforce.com platform, Apex Language, VisualForce, Data Loader, HTML, Java Script, Workflow & Approvals
Salesforce.com Team Lead
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
, INDIA
04.2014 - 12.2015
- Worked as Team Leader managing the developers and performed the roles of Salesforce.com Architect/Analyst and Developer in the organization
- Worked closely with the sales team and business analysts and performed detailed analysis of business and technical requirements and designed the solution by customizing various standard objects of SalesForce.com (SFDC)
- Implemented the requirements on Salesforce.com platform and Force.com IDE Plug-in using Eclipse
- Implemented web based case management automation - Web to Case (on Case Object) to track and solve customer's issues
- Designed, and developed Apex Classes, Controller Classes, extensions and Apex Triggers for various functional needs in the application
- Worked on various salesforce.com standard objects like Accounts, Contacts, Cases, Opportunities, Products, Opportunity Line Items, Leads, Campaigns, Reports and Dashboards
- Designed, and deployed the Custom objects, Custom tabs, Entity-Relationship data model, validation rules, Workflow Rules, Auto-Response Rules, Page layouts, Components, Visual Force Pages to suit the needs of the application
- Used SOQL & SOSL with consideration to Governor Limits for data manipulation needs of the application using platform database objects
- Involved in data mapping and migration of data from legacy systems to SalesForce.com Objects and fields
- Customized page layouts for Opportunity, Contacts, and Accounts depending upon user roles, and groups
- Used Data Loader for insert, update, and bulk import or export of data from Salesforce.com sObjects
- Environment: Salesforce.com platform, Apex Language, VisualForce, Data Loader, HTML, Java Script, Workflow & Approvals
Salesforce.com Consultant
POLARIS Financial Technology
, INDIA
05.2012 - 04.2014
- Involved in various activities of the project, like information gathering, analyzing the information, documenting the functional and nonfunctional requirements
- Lead planning meetings, JAD sessions, analysis development, test inspections, and other project meetings throughout project life cycle
- Designed, developed and deployed Apex Classes, Controller Classes and Apex Triggers for various functional needs in the application
- Created page layouts, search layouts to organize fields, custom links, related lists, and other components on a record detail and edit pages
- Created workflow rules and defined related tasks, time triggered tasks, email alerts, filed updates to implement business logic
- Created UI for new application and AppEx Packages for different Applications on Salesforce.com
- Created various Custom Reports for standard objects as well as custom objects to give a complete detailed overview of Customer (Account) Orders, Renewal Forecasting, and Customer Balance Report with Multi-Currency support
- Created profiles and implemented Object level, field-level and record-level security
- Provided support ongoing salesforce.com maintenance and administration services including periodic data cleansing, custom objects, workflow, campaign management
- And triggers
- Used the sandbox for testing and migrated the code to the deployment instance after testing
- Environment: Salesforce.com platform, Apex Language, VisualForce, Pages, Data Loader, HTML, Java Script, Workflow & Approvals
Salesforce.com Sr. Developer
CapGemini India Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad, INDIA
05.2011 - 04.2012
Package Solution Consultant
IBM India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad, INDIA
01.2010 - 05.2011
Siebel Developer
Nexxoft Infotel LTD
Bengaluru, INDIA
08.2007 - 12.2009
Education
Bachelor of Science -
SKU
06.2005
MS - Data Analytics
Western Governors University
Skills
- Salesforce Architecture & Design
- Salesforce Integration (APIs, Web Services, Middleware)
- Apex
- Visualforce
- Lightning Web Components (LWC)
- Data Modeling & Security
- Technical Leadership & Mentoring
- System Integration & Migration
- Agile & Scrum Methodologies
- Performance Optimization
- CI/CD Pipeline
- DevOps
- Salesforce Governor Limits & Best Practices
- Multi-Org Strategy and Management
- Cloud Platform & Infrastructure
- Requirements Analysis & Solution Design
Certification
- Certified System Architect
- Certified Application Architect
- Salesforce Certified Integration Architecture
- Salesforce Certified Data Architecture
- Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Designer
- Certified Platform App Builder
- Certified Force.com Administrator 201
- Certified Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant
- Certified Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant
- Certified Platform Developer I
- Certified Platform Developer II
- Certified Force.com Developer 401 (Expired)
- Oracle Database SQL Certified 1Z0-071
Websites
Trailhead Profile
https://trailhead.salesforce.com/users/profiles/cgadige
Blog
https://cloudworldsalesforce.blogspot.com/
Timeline
Salesforce Technical Lead
Splunk
08.2021 - Current
Salesforce Tech Lead
TriNet
04.2019 - 08.2021
STAFF SW Engineer, Salesforce
VISA
09.2016 - 04.2019
Salesforce.com Sr. Developer
Sunpower
01.2016 - 09.2016
Salesforce.com Team Lead
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
04.2014 - 12.2015
Salesforce.com Consultant
POLARIS Financial Technology
05.2012 - 04.2014
Salesforce.com Sr. Developer
CapGemini India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2011 - 04.2012
Package Solution Consultant
IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 05.2011
Siebel Developer
Nexxoft Infotel LTD
08.2007 - 12.2009
Bachelor of Science -
SKU
MS - Data Analytics
Western Governors University
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