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.
EJ Sherman
Senior Consultant at Coastal Cloud
EJ is an Admineloper and DevOps Darling. A senior consultant at Coastal Cloud with extensive experience with all the major DevOps tools. A proud RAD Women grad and active community member, her passion is to share the knowledge and come up with amazing puns. Their own DevOps journey focuses on process and empowering every role.
Jeb Garrott
Platform Solutions Manager at Morgan & Morgan PLLC
Jeb is a 10 year veteran on Salesforce. Shortly after graduating with his Bachelors in Management Information Systems, he was introduced to Salesforce in 2013 while responsible for managing integration partners on a new org for the company he was working for. By 2016, Jeb started a Consulting Firm building custom integrations, products and buildouts. Currently, he manages a Salesforce solutioning team consisting of 11 Admins. He believes communication is the ultimate tool for solving problems and fosters an environment of engagement, comradery, and fulfillment.
Matias Colombo
Platform Architect at The Coca-Cola Company
Matias was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and traveled a lot through his infancy due to his father’s job eventually settling in Atlanta, GA for four years at the age of 6, then over to Madrid, Spain for another 4 years before heading back to Atlanta. He graduated with a degree in Comp Sci and took an internship at the Coca-Cola Salesforce COE that was just being implemented as a developer where he has worked till this day, performing every role imaginable in the Salesforce ecosystem and getting to implement the majority of their cloud products.
Monica Thornton Hill
Senior Technical Consultant at Fusion Risk Management
Monica is a Sr Technical Consultant on Fusion Risk Management's Professional Services Technical Architecture team, specializing in configuration and security best practices and low-code scalable solutions. She started out as a Salesforce Admin in 2017, and is now a certified Salesforce Admin, App Builder, Platform Developer, Sharing and Visibility Architect and a 2x Trailhead Ranger. She spoke about the importance of source control within Salesforce development at the first DevOps Dreamin’. She's currently based in Chicago, IL and outside of work, Monica enjoys art, music, and getting outdoors on her bike or traveling to National Parks.
Ray Ensley
Staff Engineer
Ray is from New Jersey, United States. He’s been working with the Salesforce platform for about 12 years, and has implemented DevOps with Gearset for about 6 years. He’s worked on Salesforce instances large and small as well as solutions both on and off the Salesforce platform (including integrations and solutions built on AWS). When Ray is not behind the keyboard, he’s usually spending time with his partner and children adventuring across the greater Northeast US, riding his bike wherever he can, or playing some sort of video game.
Blanca Leon-Carter
DevOps Architect at Slalom / VP of Community Engagement at RAD Women
Blanca’s journey went from Admin to Architect. She is a DevOps Advocate, a Salesforce Well-Architected Ambassador, and leads the way by empowering women and newcomers to dive into the DevOps space. She is so passionate about DevOps and breaking down barriers, she co-founded the Women in DevOps Book Club (more like a support group). Blanca helps lead RAD Women, on a mission to close the gender and diversity gaps in tech.
Eric Kintzer
SFDC System Architect at Helix
Eric Kintzer has been deep into the SFDC ecosystem since 2008. He is a top ten contributor to Stackexchange where he gives back to the community. As SFDC architect, he has rolled out the Enterprise Patterns (aka fflib) into every org he has worked on. Since 2017, he has provided countless Gearset product feedback items and participates in most Gearset pilot programs.
Laurel Jones
Sr. Product Manager - Tech at Amazon
Laurel has 10+ years of architecting, implementing and supporting cloud-based tools (largely in Salesforce) as a consultant, architect, and product manager. Originally from the US midwest, she spent 15 years in Los Angeles, and recently moved to Seattle with her family and is loving the outdoors in the pacific Northwest.
Michael Halliwell
Salesforce Manager at Steward Health Care
Michael has been involved with Salesforce for 7 years and a moderator of the SFXD Salesforce Discord for almost 5 years. He’s passionate about helping others working within Salesforce to teach them about design, implementation, and best practices. As well as meeting new experts and making lifelong friendships with people in the industry.
Nanners Lamet
Salesforce Principal Enterprise Architect
Bio coming soon!
Sean Lague
Director, CRM Center of Excellence at Covetrus
Sean is a former CIO with over 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions at leading companies such as American Express and IBM. Throughout his career, Sean has been recognized for his expertise in strategic planning, driving business growth through technology innovation, and delivering outstanding customer service. He is passionate about ensuring the highest level of customer experience in everything that he and his teams deliver. Sean has a proven track record of successful implementations of enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives that have led to increased revenue, optimized processes, and improved operational efficiency.