Naveen Gabrani is a Force.com architect and the founder/CEO of a Salesforce consulting company, Astrea IT Services. Astrea is a leader in providing Salesforce.com services. Astrea has seven apps on AppExchange, such as Smart vCard, Astrea Clone, Smart Calendar, Print It, Format Me, Chatrules, and Object Hierarchy that were envisioned by Naveen. He has 20 years' experience in the IT Industry in various technical and management positions. Naveen is passionate about providing high-quality software deliveries that exceed customers' expectations, and building teams of motivated and happy members.
Srikanth Goati is a Salesforce-certified professional and the cofounder of Salesforce Hyderabad User Group. Currently, he is working as a Salesforce Administrator with Birlasoft India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India. He is an MCA graduate from Hyderabad and has certificates in DEV401 and ADM201. Overall, he has four years' experience in developing and administering Salesforce.com. Birlasoft is a global IT services provider and part of the 150 year old, multibillion dollar CK Birla Group. With a global workforce of over 4,000 employees, Birlasoft has global footprints and best-in-class delivery centers in China and India.
Srikanth has reviewed Force.com Tips and Tricks, Packt Publishing. He can be contacted via e-mail at <[email protected]> and followed on Twitter at @srikanthsfdc. He can be searched on LinkedIn using the name Srikanth Goati and on Facebook with /srikanth.goti.
Aruna A Lambat is an enthusiastic architect working on Salesforce.com technology with a profound understanding of software design and development. She is passionate about building better products and providing excellent services, thereby leading to healthier customer satisfaction. She has been working on the Salesforce.com platform since 2008. She entered IT acquaintance as a student in 2004. She has completed her master's degree in Computer Applications from Maharashtra, India. She is associated with the IT industry since 2007. Having started her career as a Java developer, she has shifted her focus to cloud computing, specifically in Salesforce.com.
She is a Salesforce-certified developer (DEV401), administrator (ADM201), and advanced administrator (ADM301/211) along with her regular contribution to the Salesforce developer community. Also, she is certified in Java as a Sun Certificated Java Programmer (SCJP) and Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD).
Before contributing to this book as a reviewer, she worked as a technical reviewer for Force.com Tips and Tricks, Visualforce Development Cookbook, Visualforce Developer's Guide, and Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook. All these books were published by Packt Publishing. She has also contributed for a technical example cited in Force.com Developer Certification Handbook (DEV401), Packt Publishing.
Aruna works with a reputed India-based IT MNC; it is primarily engaged in providing a range of outsourcing services, business process outsourcing, and infrastructure services. She works as a project manager on Salesforce.com technology-based customer services. She can be contacted via e-mail at <[email protected]> and on LinkedIn using the name Aruna Lambat. She can be contacted via Twitter at @arunalambat and on Facebook with /aruna.lambat.
Caleb Poitevien is an analytic philosopher with a deep passion for continual improvement. He has grown due to diverse experiences ranging from eight years in financial operations to over 12 years in IT in enterprise application development based on Java and Salesforce. He has been consulting for XM Satellite Radio, Motorola, Level3 Communications, Quick Loans, MTS, NBTY, Apple, and currently Tata Consultancy Services. Caleb lives by Colin Powell's quote:
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Karanraj Sankaranarayanan, who likes to go by Karan, is a certified Salesforce.com developer and works as a Salesforce consultant at HCL Technologies. Karan holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Anna University with a specialization in Computer Science. He has more than three years' experience in the Salesforce platform and IT industry. He is passionate about the Salesforce platform and is an active member/contributor of the Salesforce customer community/developer forum. He writes technical blogs too.
He is also the leader of Chennai Salesforce Platform Developer User Group based in Chennai, India. He is one of the reviewers of Force.com Tips and Tricks and Visualforce Development Cookbook, both by Packt Publishing. He can be reached via Twitter (@karanrajs) and through the Salesforce community at https://success.salesforce.com/profile?u=00530000004fXkCAAU.
Michael Edward Vargas Jr. is an American software engineer and entrepreneur who is best known for his ongoing involvement in the development of federal and private enterprise application systems using the best of breed technologies. He is currently a member of the Java User Group in Miami. In addition, he is a huge fan of Douglas Crockford and John Resig for their involvement with the JavaScript community. On his mornings, nights, and sometimes weekends, he is passionately devoted to the discipline of software engineering. Originally, he started out in the field working at Motorola and has gone on to contribute to organizations such as ADT Security Services, Interval International, and Engility Corporation.