About Me

Hello and welcome. I am so glad you are here.

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Introduction:

Hi! My name is Rakesh Gupta. Thank you for being a part of my community! After reading the introduction you will be convinced, beyond doubt, that in life, nothing is impossible, if you put your heart and mind to it! This is far from a cliché – I am living proof!

I will achieve my objective if, after reading about me, you begin doubting your doubts – about yourself, your skills, and your ability to achieve heights beyond your expectations!

A peek into my childhood:

I am a graduate of SRM University, Chennai, with a degree in information technology. I previously worked at iGate Computer System Ltd (now a part of Capgemini).

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I come from a small village (where people still walk a few miles to find a good school) of Sonaili (District – Katihar) Bihar and live in Mumbai, India.

Life has not been easy, to say the least. There have been many ups and downs – especially, a healthy dose of the latter, during my childhood. I am deeply grateful to my dad, mom, and my sister, for shielding me, as much as possible from life’s hardships, by bestowing on me their love, dedication, and disproportionate sacrifices.

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My dad is a retired teacher. To-date, I remember my dad walked for miles, on rainy days during floods, due to the scanty irrigation system, to go to his ‘office’ (i.e. School). I will never ever forget those days when my dad did not get paid on time (sometimes, he would not get paid for 6 months).

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Our situation became so dire that, at the age of 13, for the first time, I took up a small job to earn money to contribute towards buying food for the family. My dad took loans from others to pay for my education. My parents refrained from buying basic necessities for themselves, even things like clothes, to save money so my sister and I could go to a good school and a better college.

Not only did we not have any good schools in my village, but there was no English Medium school for miles.  As a result, I did not receive any formal training in English. Consequently, occasionally, I still struggle to write blogs. Writing in English continues to be a challenge for me. However, fortunately, my desire to help others – to achieve mastery in Salesforce – is stronger than the challenge!

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I am a six-time Salesforce MVP, evangelist, Author, Salesforce coach, and avid blogger! I have been working on the Salesforce.com platform for over 10 years.

I am Mumbai based Salesforce MVP, an evangelist with experience in Salesforce as a Developer, Consultant, and Solution Architect. Best known as an automation champion in the Salesforce ecosystem, I have penned over 250 articles on Salesforce Flow and Process Builder to show how someone can use Salesforce Flow and Process Builder to minimize code usage. Furthermore, I am a principal team member of a biweekly online webinar, Automation Hour (http://www.automationhour.com).

Recently, I was featured on Salesforce corporate website. Check it out here: https://www.salesforce.com/products/salesforce-advantage/

In addition to the above, I offer online and corporate training for various Salesforce certifications. I have trained more than 1000 individual professionals around the globe and conducted corporate workshops.

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I offer training for various courses such as Salesforce Administrator, Salesforce Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Platform Developer I, Platform Developer II, Pardot, Marketing Cloud, and Salesforce Flow. 

I am boundlessly passionate about the Salesforce platform! I frequently share my insights through various channels including Salesforce Trailblazer Community, lead user groups, and, continue to get certified in as many Salesforce Certifications as possible.

Read my complete story here: 

  1. My Journey: From Helping My Family Put Food On the Table to Salesforce Essentials Customer and MVP
  2. Why This Trailblazer Says Adversity Is Essential to Success

Honors & Awards:

Thank you Mr. Benioff.
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Salesforce happens to be an app builder platform that, in addition to doing it so well, builds careers and develops mentors! It has played a pivotal role in my, and the lives of many others. I am grateful for the same, as are many others.
 
I am indebted to Salesforce for bestowing on me, for four consecutive years, the honor of #SalesforceMVP! Thank you! Today, however, I am speechless!
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I am pleasantly surprised, honored, and humbled to be selected as one of Mason Frank’s 30 recommended bloggers! Thanks again!
  1. Top 50 Salesforce Influencers on Twitter for 2015
  2. The Top Salesforce Influencers for 2016
  3. Salesforce MVP Summer ’14
  4. Salesforce MVP Summer ’15
  5. Salesforce MVP Summer ’16
  6. Mason Frank’s 30 recommended Salesforce bloggers
  7. Salesforce MVP Summer ’17
  8. TOP 124 Salesforce Influencers of 2017
  9. Salesforce MVP 2018
  10. TOP 200 Salesforce Influencers on Twitter for 2018
  11. Salesforce MVP 2019
  12. Salesforce MVP 2020
  13. Salesforce MVP 2021
  14. 20 Most Popular Salesforce Admin & Developer Blogs 2020 
  15. 20 Most Popular Salesforce Admin & Developer Blogs 2021

Below is a glimpse of my various involvement in the community:

Leader of several User Groups as listed below:

  1. Salesforce Architect Group Mumbai

Mastery in the following areas of Salesforce Platform:

  1. Salesforce Certified Administrator
  2. Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator
  3. Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer
  4. Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant
  5. Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant
  6. Salesforce Certified Community Cloud Consultant
  7. Salesforce Certified Nonprofit Cloud Consultant
  8. Salesforce Certified Einstein Analytics and Discovery Consultant
  9. Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder
  10. Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I
  11. Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II 
  12. Salesforce Certified Pardot Specialist
  13. Salesforce Certified Pardot Consultant
  14. Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Designer
  15. Salesforce Certified Data Architecture & Management Designer
  16. Salesforce Certified Application Architect
  17. Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle & Deployment Designer
  18. Salesforce Certified Identity and Access Management Designer
  19. Salesforce Certified Integration Architecture Designer
  20. Salesforce Certified Certified System Architect!
  21. Salesforce Certified User Experience Designer
  22. Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Administrator
  23. Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Email Specialist
  24. Salesforce Certified Field Service Consultant 
  25. Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Certification
  26. Salesforce Certified JavaScript Developer I

About My Blog:

If this is your first visit to my website, you might want to start with my tutorials. Here are the tutorials that I have published so far:

You can also check my latest blog posts or use the search function on the sidebar.

In addition to my blogs, I penned the following books:

Furthermore, I have been a technical reviewer of the following books:

  1. Learning Force.com Application Development
  2. Mastering Application Development with Force.com

Speaking engagements:

  1. Dreamforce’15
  2. Dreamforce’16
  3. Netherlands Nonprofit User Group
  4. Southeast Dreamin’17
  5. Midwest Dreamin’17
  6. Dreamforce’17
  7. Atlanta Developer User Group – April’17
  8. North Fulton Salesforce User Group – July’17
  9. Dreamforce’18
  10. Dallas Developer User Group– March’19
  11. TrailheaDX’19
  12. Texas Dreamin’19
  13. Midwest Dreamin’19
  14. Salesforce Saturday – Dallas – August’19
  15. Austin, TX Administrators Group – September’19
  16. San Antonio, TX Administrators Group – January’20
  17. Salesforce Saturday – Dallas – September’20
  18. Dreamforce 2021
  19. ParDreamin’2021
  20. Singapore Dreamin’2021
  21. NorthEast Dreamin’2022

Upcoming Speaking engagements:

  1. Pakistan Dreamin’2022

Currently, in addition to offering online and corporate training for various Salesforce certifications, I am working as a Salesforce solution/Technical architect.

In light of the above, I hope, by now, you have begun doubting your doubts – about yourself, your skills, and your ability to achieve heights beyond your expectations!

Why not take the next step and Contact Me!? Or, follow me on Twitter:  @rakeshistom / @automationchamp

Thank you for reading!
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Rakesh Gupta
– Salesforce MVP | Author | Coach
– Founder AutomationChampion.com, AutomationHour.com, and Virtual Dreamin.

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  7. Hi,
    Very nice, truly inspiring… I too started with Admin certification and cleared PD1 recently. I am aiming for solutions architect in an year (Goal). Thanks a lot for process builder posts. I loved those posts.

  10. Hi Rakesh,

    Your story is very inspiring . I have recently started my Salesforce journey after being 6 years in IT . I look forward taking inspiration for your posts and learning Salesforce.

    1. Thank you so much!

      There are tons of documentation available on WWW, but start your Salesforce career with Trailhead.

      Good luck!

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  12. Hi Rakesh,

    I hope you remember me. 🙂 Awesome work you are doing, seriously very appreciating one! We had started when Salesforce has just come up in the market, never knew you will go so far in such a small duration. Hats Off!! Saying perfectly suits you “When there is a will there’s a way”. Keep up the good work going.

    Regards,
    Amrin

  17. Hi Rakesh,

    I have implemented “Display notice when users log in to Salesforce” using Flow and Login Flow. By mistake I had inactivated Login Flow due to this I am not able to login in my developer edition. Its showing me below message

    Flow not found
    Flow “flow_Name” is not found or doesn’t have an active version. Please contact your administrator for more information.

    Could you please help me out on this issue.

    Thanks,
    Imran

  20. Hello Sir.
    I am a big follower of your blog and hats off to you. I have read all your chatter feed post through process builder and its amazing .

    . An interesting scenario came to my mind that how to download all chatter feeds posted by User. Is it possible to Do?

  27. Rakesh, the site and content are excellent for learners. Biggest in this I see is explanation about the topic. I have seen the mass transfer of chatter files.

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