Salesforce DevOps

Salesforce Developer Operations Specialist — Vanguard Cloud Operations

Chicago, IL | January 2024 – Present

• Automated continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Copado and GitHub Actions, reducing release cycle times by 35% and saving 6 hours of developer deployment manual effort per week.
• Configured Salesforce DX scratch org configurations and source tracking mechanisms, which accelerated developer onboarding times by 3 weeks and decreased environment synchronization conflicts by 24%.
• Managed multi-sandbox deployment environments for a development team of 14 software engineers, resolving 45 deployment metadata errors per sprint and achieving a release pass rate of 98.6%.
• Orchestrated metadata backups and disaster recovery runbooks utilizing OwnBackup, protecting Salesforce data integrity across 3 production instances storing 2.5M customer records.

Salesforce DevOps Analyst — Summit Technology Group

Indianapolis, IN | August 2020 – December 2023

• Programmed custom shell scripts and Salesforce CLI configurations to automate package creation and deployment validation checks, decreasing production deployment defects by 28%.
• Integrated Salesforce Shield and event monitoring capabilities to track sandbox usage and data export logs, ensuring SOC 2 compliance alignment across 4 production business orgs.
• Collaborated with 8 developers to manage version control branch strategies in Git, reducing merge conflicts by 32% and decreasing feature release turnaround times by 15%.
• Optimized deployment package sizes by partitioning custom metadata components, recovering 15% of pipeline processing capacity and saving 4 weekly hours of administrative work.

Salesforce DX, Salesforce CLI, CI/CD, Git, GitHub Actions, Copado, Gearset, Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Salesforce Flow, Salesforce Shield, OwnBackup, Shell scripting, REST APIs, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Release management, Sandbox management

Enterprise CI/CD Pipelines Overhaul

Role: Salesforce DevOps Lead

Tools: GitHub Actions, Salesforce DX, Copado, Git

Standardized release management pipeline for 15 developers across 5 orgs, reducing production hotfixes by 42% and deployment times by 6 hours.

Multi-Org Sandbox Consolidation

Role: Salesforce DevOps Engineer

Tools: Salesforce CLI, Gearset, Git, Apex

Managed metadata merge and migration of 3 business-unit sandboxes into a single staging environment, resolving 120 deployment conflicts and cutting synchronization cycle times by 30%.

• Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect (2023)
• Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I (2020)
• Copado Certified Developer (2022)
• Salesforce Certified Administrator (2020)

• Languages: English (Native), German (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Mentored students in web development at a local non-profit coding boot camp (2022-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice