Naveen Gabrani is a Force.com architect and is founder of the Salesforce consulting company Astrea IT Services. Astrea is a leader in providing Salesforce.com services. Astrea has three products on AppExchange, Smart vCard, Astrea Clone, and Object Hierarchy, which were envisioned by Naveen. Naveen has 20 years of experience in the IT industry in various technical and management positions.

Srikanth Goati is a Salesforce-certified professional and co-founder of Salesforce Hyderabad User Group. Currently, he is working as a Salesforce administrator with Y-Axis Solutions Pvt Ltd, Hyderbad, AP, India.

Srikanth is an MCA Graduate from Hyderabad. He has acquired the Salesforce Certifications DEV401 and ADM201. He is one of the top three bloggers in the Salesforce community. He has conducted Salesforce training sessions for more than 350 users in his company.

Overall, he has more than 2 years of experience in Salesforce.com development and administrating. He has experience in the Sales cloud, Service cloud, Apex, Visualforce, Database.com, Site.com, and Customer portal.

Internally in his company, he has written more than 50 training manuals on different modules of Salesforce.com.

Aruna A. Lambat is an enthusiastic Technical Leader 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 leading to healthier customer satisfaction.

She has been working on the Salesforce.com platform since 2008. She entered into IT in 2004 as a student. She completed her Master's Degree in Computer Applications from the state Maharashtra, India. She has been working in the IT industry since 2007. She started her carrier as a Java developer and later shifted her focus to cloud computing, specifically in Salesforce.com. She is a Sun-certificated Java developer, web component developer, and Salesforce-certified developer. She is a regular contributor to the Salesforce developer community. She helped the author to cite the example in the book, Force.com Developer Certification Handbook (DEV401).

Aruna works for HCL Technologies; it is primarily engaged in providing a range of outsourcing services, business process outsourcing, and infrastructure services. Aruna works as a Lead Consultant on Salesforce.com technology-based customer services.

Aruna resides in Pune, the cultural capital of Maharashtra, also known for its educational facilities and relative prosperity. She is from Nagpur, the orange city. Her parents staying in the heart of the orange city. She completed her education in this city and achieved success at different time points in her career with immense support from her parents Mr and Mrs Anandrao Lambat. Aruna loves travelling for nature visits, reading fiction books, playing pool, and roaming with friends in her free time.

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Karanraj Sankaranarayanan is a certified Salesforce.com developer and works full time at Tiara Consulting Services (I) Pvt Ltd, Chennai, the Indian operations of Tiara Consulting headquartered in California, USA. Karan holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from Anna University with a specialization in Computer Science. He is passionate about the Salesforce platform, an active member/contributor of the Salesforce customer community/developer forum, and writes blogs. He is also the leader of the Chennai Salesforce Developer user group based in Chennai, India. He can be reached via Twitter (@karanrajs).