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Published inSep 2013
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Keir Bowden
Keir Bowden
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Keir Bowden

Keir Bowden is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry from the United Kingdom. After spending the early part of his career in the defence industry, he moved into investment banking systems, implementing systems for Banque Nationale de Paris, CitiGroup, and Deutsche Bank. In the late 1990s, Keir moved into Internet technologies, leading to a development of the order management and payment handling systems of one of the first European Internet shopping sites. Keir started working with Force.com in late 2008 and has been recognized multiple times by Salesforce as an MVP for his contribution and leadership in the community. In 2012, he became the first certified technical architect outside of Salesforce in EMEA, and he has served as a judge on several EMEA Technical Architect Certification Review Boards. Keir is also a prominent blogger on Apex, Visualforce and Lightning Components solutions; and a regular speaker at events such as Dreamforce, Cloud World Forum, and Salesforce World Tour. Keir is a chief technical officer of BrightGena—a Salesforce.com Platinum Cloud Alliance Partner in the United Kingdom, where he is responsible for the present and future technical strategies. Keir acted as a technical reviewer for the CRM Admin Cookbook before accepting the challenge of authoring this book, which also happens to be his first.
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Santosh Kumbar started working on the Force.com platform in the year 2009. He is an expert in Force.com technologies and currently, he is working as a Senior Software Engineer with a Force.com partner in Pune. He has worked on many Salesforce custom applications for end users, and has also been a part of application development for AppExhange apps. He owns a website www.santoshkumbar.com, which is purely built on Visualforce and Apex and also, he is always passionate about exploring new technologies.

Santosh received an Engineering degree from Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Bangalore, specializing in Electronics and Communication. He can be contacted at or found on Twitter @san_224.

Aruna Lambat is an enthusiastic Technical Leader working on the 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 a higher rate of customer satisfaction.

She started working on the Salesforce.com platform since 2008. She entered into IT acquaintance in 2004 as a student. She has completed her Master's degree in Computer Applications from Maharashtra, India. She has been associated with the IT industry since 2007 having started her carrier as a Java developer, and later shifted her focus to Cloud computing, specifically in Salesforce.com.

She is a Salesforce Certified Developer (DEV401), Administrator (ADM201), and Advanced Administrator (ADM301/211), giving regular contributions to the Salesforce developer community. She is also certified for Java knowledge as a Sun Certificated Java developer (SCJP), and Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD).

Before contributing to this book as a reviewer, she worked previously on the following two Salesforce books:

  • She helped author for citing the example during the book Force.com Developer Certification Handbook (DEV401) by Packt Publishing.

  • Worked as a Technical Reviewer for the book Force.com Tips and Tricks by 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. Aruna works as a Lead Consultant/Salesforce Application Architect on Salesforce.com technology based customer services.

Aruna resides in Pune, a cultural capital of Maharashtra, also known for its educational facilities and relative prosperity. She is from Nagpur, also known as "Orange City" where her parents are currently staying. She completed her education from this city and achieved success at different points in her career with immense support from her parents. Aruna loves going on nature visits, reading fiction books, playing pool, and catching up with friends in her free time.

Aruna can be contacted via e-mail at . Her LinkedIn profile name is Aruna Lambat, her Twitter handle is @arunalambat, and she is available on Facebook at /aruna.lambat.

Christopher Alun Lewis is a Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Advanced Developer with many years' experience developing on the platform. He works for Desynit, a Salesforce partner based in Bristol in the South West of England, where he helps design, architect, and build Force.com solutions for a wide variety of clients.

Christopher is a key contributor to the Salesforce development community. In his spare time, he writes a popular blog (christopheralunlewis.blogspot.com), organizes local Force.com developer community meetings, and volunteers his Force.com skills to local charities.

Karanraj Sankaranarayanan (Karan) is a certified Salesforce.com developer and works as a Salesforce consultant in HCL Technologies. Karan holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Anna University with a specialization in Computer Science. Overall, he has 3 years of experience in the Salesforce platform and the IT industry. He is very much passionate about the Salesforce platform, an active member/contributor of the Salesforce customer community/developer forum, and writes technical blogs too.

He is also the leader of the Chennai Salesforce Platform Developer user group based in Chennai, India. He was one of the reviewers of the book Force.com Tips and Tricks by Packt Publishing. He can be reached via Twitter (@karanrajs) and through Salesforce community https://success.salesforce.com/profile?u=00530000004fXkCAAU.

Jitendra Zaa (@ilovenagpur) is a Force.com developer and owner of the known Salesforce blog blog.shivasoft.in. He has worked extensively on almost every area of Force.com such as Integration, Data Loading, AppExchange, and Application Development. He is a Java and Salesforce Certified Developer, Administrator, and Consultant.

Jitendra has more than six years of experience in software development using Salesforce, Java, PHP, ORMB, J2ME, and ASP.NET technologies. He is currently working with Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune, and graduated from RTM Nagpur University.

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Keir Bowden

Keir Bowden is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry from the United Kingdom. After spending the early part of his career in the defence industry, he moved into investment banking systems, implementing systems for Banque Nationale de Paris, CitiGroup, and Deutsche Bank. In the late 1990s, Keir moved into Internet technologies, leading to a development of the order management and payment handling systems of one of the first European Internet shopping sites. Keir started working with Force.com in late 2008 and has been recognized multiple times by Salesforce as an MVP for his contribution and leadership in the community. In 2012, he became the first certified technical architect outside of Salesforce in EMEA, and he has served as a judge on several EMEA Technical Architect Certification Review Boards. Keir is also a prominent blogger on Apex, Visualforce and Lightning Components solutions; and a regular speaker at events such as Dreamforce, Cloud World Forum, and Salesforce World Tour. Keir is a chief technical officer of BrightGena—a Salesforce.com Platinum Cloud Alliance Partner in the United Kingdom, where he is responsible for the present and future technical strategies. Keir acted as a technical reviewer for the CRM Admin Cookbook before accepting the challenge of authoring this book, which also happens to be his first.
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