About

Abhinav Gupta

Passionately โค๏ธ empowering global businesses with Tech ๐Ÿ’กsince 2004.

Abstract     

Featured at TrailheadDX 2019 (India)

Featured at TrailheadDX 2019 (India)

Abhinav Gupta is a tech leader specializing in Salesforce and Web3 technologies. Heโ€™s been delivering software for worldwide enterprises since 2004 and frequently speaks at various domestic and international tech events. Abhinav was the first Salesforce MVP from India, a title heโ€™s held for eight years.

In 2022, he focused on learning Web3 and earned a Blockchain certification from IIT Kanpur. He co-authored the book Force.com Tips & Tricks and has made notable open-source contributions.

Speaker Journey

Since 2012, Abhinav is delivering sessions/presentations/webinars on Salesforce, Web2, Mobile and Web3 in many domestic IRL(In Real Life) and online meetups, community events like Dreamin and international events like Dreamforce.

2011 - Became Indiaโ€™s 1st Salesforce MVP

1st from India to be rewarded with MVP (Most Valuable Professional) title in 2011, renewed the same for eight consecutive years for Salesforce platform expertise, and contributions towards Trailblazer community.

Judged $1Million hackathon at Dreamforce 2014.

Abhinav was honoured to be a judge in the final round of $1 Million hack at #DF14, along with other solid jury panel and talented hackers.

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ TAGS - Abhinavโ€™s Salesforce Podcast

Previous Podcast Episodes

It started in 2024 with a mission to converse with Salesforce experts from diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Watch on YouTube | Listen on Spotify, Amazon, Apple, etc.

Abhinavโ€™s Salesforce Certifications

Web3 Certifications

Abhinav spent most of his 2022 acquiring and learning Web3 technologies, including a professional certification course from reputed IIT Kanpur about โ€œBlockchainโ€. He is well versed with NFTs(Art, PFP, Token Gating, etc.) and how various Smart Contracts and other stuff are tied up together.

Abhinavโ€™s Salesforce Book

Author of internationally-selling Cloud Computing and Salesforce book โ€œForce.com Tips & Tricksโ€

Education

  • Master of Computer Science [M.Sc]

  • โ€œBโ€ level (DOEACC) - equivalent to MCA (Masters in Computer Applications). 

  • Bachelors in Computer Application (BCA)

  • PGDCA (Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications) - DOEACC A Level

Open Source Contributions

Tolerado for Salesforce APIs

  • Salesforce Developer Blog (July 2010)

    Salesforce Developer Blog (July 2010)

    Quinton Wall from Salesforce Developer relations covered the Tolerado library in his blog โ€œSupercharge your Java apps for better use of Force.com Web Service APIs with Toleradoโ€

  • Salesforce Handbook By Wes Nolte, Jeff Douglas ยท 2011

    Salesforce Handbook

    Salesforce Handbook was written By Wes Nolte and Jeff Douglas in 2011. It features the Tolerado library.

โ€œTolerado: Java Client Wrappers for Salesforce SOAP web servicesโ€ is a SOAP + Java + Salesforce integration framework to support transparent retrying of recoverable exceptions rather than failing hard and caching session IDs to save API calls. It's a pretty popular lib for SOAP-based integrations. It is featured in the Salesforce developer blog and a book named โ€œSalesforce Handbookโ€ by Salesforce MVPs Wes Nolte and Jeff Douglas. 
References:
  • View on Google Code 
  • Move to GitHub now, as Google code is shut down. Find the project on the following links:
https://github.com/abhinavguptas/tolerado-salesforce-web-services-client-wrappers
https://github.com/abhinavguptas/tolerado-sfdc-wsc-apis

Salesforce Lookup Rollup Summaries

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This library contains a key class called "LREngine" i.e. "L"ookup "R"ollup Engine, which:

  • Performs rollup on multiple such fields in a single aggregate SOQL query.

  • Allows easy addition/removal of new fields to rollup as requirement changes over the span of time.

  • A developer needs to write only a single trigger for multiple rollup fields.

  • Allows the developer to filter the child records getting rolled up, just like standard roll-up summary fields.

Highlights

  1. Related Article in Salesforce Tech Library by Andrew Fawcett

  2. Used in popular GitHub project declarative-lookup-rollup-summaries.

References

Salesforce Lookup Rollup Summaries Banner

Apex Fast XML DOM

Apex wrapper on Apex DOM classes(Document, XmlNode). It exposes W3C DOM API for XML manipulation, which is pretty popular and known to most developers, so saves development time and cost on integration projects. It's pretty popular and featured in Mar'10 Salesforce developer newsletter as well.
References

As a Salesforce Blogger

Abhinavโ€™s blogging journey started in 2010, when he mainly logged his learning in a tech journal. Since the article is subject to public scrutiny on the Internet, it allows him to reflect, dig deeper, and research further on topics of interest.

You can read his blogs here, or pick a recent one from the grid below:

A Trip down memory lane

Dreaming, Planning, and Organising India's 1st Salesforce Dreamin Event (Jaipur Dev Fest in 2017)