Our DevOps Leaders help shape the future of development on the Salesforce platform. As pillars of the ecosystem, this group of experts have each made a unique impact in the Salesforce community. The mission of the DevOps Leaders is to continue to educate and advocate for DevOps best practices on Salesforce, and inspire release teams to build better.
Amit Kumar Tiwari
Head of Salesforce Architecture and Practice at Intellect Design Arena Limited
Amit is an Architect Leader with over 15 years of experience designing, architecting, configuring, developing, and implementing digital solutions. He’s played a pivotal role in establishing an Enterprise-wide Centre of Excellence for Salesforce. His expertise extends to executing large-scale, multiyear migrations for Wealth Management platforms on Salesforce. Currently, he’s contributing to one of the largest Salesforce implementations for Wealth. Passionate about problem-solving, Amit provides strategic vision and thought leadership, driving innovation and transformative change within the organization and for his clients.
Cristine Otero
Senior Salesforce Developer at MathWorks
Cristine is a senior Salesforce developer working in the sales space of the platform. In her spare time she likes to spend as much time outdoors as possible be it biking/hiking or gardening. Cristine has two beautiful pups that she likes to take on outdoor endeavors.
Deema Rahim
Director of Architecture at MTX Group
Deema is a Salesforce fanatic. She is excited by strategies and processes, and loves to mentor her team.
Deepak Veera
Product Manager III, CPQ & RevOps at MongoDB
Deepak is an experienced product manager and consultant with a specialization in CPQ/Revenue Cloud. Deepak has deep knowledge of the Salesforce platform and his strong strategic thinking results in the design of scalable solutions. He holds six Salesforce certifications including Revenue Cloud Consultant Accredited Professional, CPQ Specialist, and Sales Cloud Consultant. Deepak is a graduate of North Carolina State University and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Jeremy Foster
Manager of Salesforce Development at The Pilot Company
Jeremy has been working in the Salesforce ecosystem for 8 years, building skills with a variety of platform clouds and experience working with different large enterprise instances over his career. His primary focus with The Pilot Company has been implementing a DevOps practice to support the growing variety of projects on Salesforce. Always interested in problem solving and facing new challenges, DevOps with Gearset provided a new avenue for implementing a positive change in development lifecycle with his team.
Jesse Fusselman
Manager Business Applications at Thumbtack
Jesse stumbled into the Salesforce space around 8 years ago and realized he had a real knack and passion for designing well run and scalable solutions that drove an impact. Now he has the opportunity to lead a team of even more talented admins/developers and strives to reduce as much friction as possible while empowering them to do their best work. A major part of that is to make the deployment and version control process as smooth as possible and laying a foundation of standards and strategies that allow them to focus on what they do best without compromise.
Jolene Mair
Salesforce Applications Engineer IV at HackerOne
Jolene is currently a Salesforce Applications Engineer IV at HackerOne responsible for the technical ownership of Salesforce & Salesforce DevOps. Falling into the world of Salesforce was a happy accident for her. Jolene left university and started a Graduate Software Developer position at a company that happened to use Salesforce and here we are 5 years and a few jobs later. Her ideal world would always involve a challenge. Jolene loves an org she can really make a difference in and a team that she can help to grow theirs and her own Salesforce & DevOps skills.
Jonny Harris
Salesforce DevOps Engineer at Zurich Insurance Ltd
Jonny is Salesforce DevOps Engineer at Zurich. He has been in the Salesforce ecosystem for 5 years moving from a Salesforce admin to a developer and now to a DevOps engineer. Jonny has found a great passion for DevOps, its culture and improving processes for developers and admins around the way they move changes through the Salesforce landscape. Being a part of the DevOps Leaders’ program is a great honor and he’s excited to make a difference to the wider community. In his personal time, Jonny is a keen golfer and gamer - a good balance in the British weather, summer is for golf, winter is for games!
Justin Stasio
Sr. Salesforce Architect at McKesson
Justin is a seasoned Salesforce professional with over a decade of experience, having progressed from a developer to a Salesforce Enterprise Architect. He has worked on various Salesforce instances and led numerous projects from conception to completion. Known as a lifelong learner, he is acclaimed for discovering inventive ways to maximize technology. Most recently, he applied this skill by leading the rollout of Gearset pipelines across the McKesson enterprise. Outside of work, he values family time, gaming, and perfecting his sourdough craft.
Lauren Krcatovich
Development Manager, CRM Applications at Cision
Lauren Krcatovich is the Manager of the Salesforce engineering team for Cision, LLC. She was introduced to Salesforce less than 2 years ago and quickly learned how valuable the Gearset DevOps tool is to her team. Prior to working within the Salesforce ecosystem, Lauren spent her time as a consultant leading teams towards delivering custom product solutions.
Michael McNeeley
Director, Salesforce Program at Spotter
Michael’s journey from accidental admin to self-taught developer to architect led to 15 certifications and eventually leadership roles guiding admin and developer teams in startup environments. Having managed Sales Cloud, Pardot, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Experience Cloud implementations, he’s passionate about instilling DevOps processes, even in the smallest Salesforce orgs. Michael loves co-leading a Salesforce Saturday group, sharing his experiences as well as learning from industry peers, fostering a vibrant community of continuous learning.
Nikhil Reddy
Sr. Technical Program Manager at Amazon
Nikhil is a Senior Technical Program Manager (Sr TPM) with a unique professional journey that spans from Databases to Salesforce administration and, eventually, to Architecture. With nearly nine years of dedicated experience in the realms of Salesforce and DevOps, he’s not only honed his technical expertise but has also become an advocate for DevOps methodologies and Salesforce governance processes. Throughout his career, he’s successfully implemented and scaled these processes for multiple companies, contributing to their operational efficiency and growth. Outside of the professional realm, Nikhil finds joy in spending quality time with his family. To unwind and recharge, he has a passion for video games and movies.
Oscar Hemmelgarn
Salesforce Product Development Manager at Arvest Bank
Oscar is based in Knoxville, TN where he started his Salesforce career in 2016 with experience on nearly every Cloud Salesforce has offered. He has a passion to help development teams build exciting and engaging solutions on the Salesforce platform quickly. Oscar loves to collaborate and leverage the tools that marry progress with collaboration, like Gearset!
Praveen Kumar Rajasekaran
Sr. Manager at MongoDB
Bio coming soon!
Sami Hawkins
Business Systems QA Manager at West Shore Home
Sami is a DevOps enthusiast with a passion for virtual and real-world adventures. When she's not automating deployments or optimizing workflows, you can find her embarking on epic quests in action-adventure RPGs, or exploring the great outdoors, hiking and biking through scenic landscapes. Her DevOps mission is to share knowledge and help teams understand the 'why' behind best practices.
Samuel Amiri
Salesforce Architect at Blackline Systems Inc
Samuel is a jack of all trades software/product evangelist looking to make a significant positive impact on the success of a company. His outlook on engineering and product involves a balance between the philosophies of continuous integration, behavior driven development and atomic design following the do not repeat yourself principle are necessary for the long-term health of any given product. He believes products and business goals should be metric driven, and that the big picture should be taken into account no matter how small a change is. He believes you can never prevent problems, only mitigate them, and that not everything needs to be solved by a computer.
