Michael Smith
Lead Member Technical Staff, Nonprofit Cloud at Salesforce.org
Warwick Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Smith is a seasoned technical leader with over three decades of hands-on experience in application development, infrastructure, and Salesforce platform engineering, currently serving as Lead Member Technical Staff for Nonprofit Cloud at Salesforce.org. He brings deep expertise as a 7x certified Salesforce consultant/developer and has spent the last several years enhancing the open-source Nonprofit Success Pack to expand impact for mission-driven organizations. Michael blends legacy-language and systems experience (Clipper, VB.NET, Lotus Notes) with modern automation and Python-based tooling contributions, notably improving the popular CumulusCI framework for Salesforce project automation. As a former consultant, entrepreneur, and long-tenured technical manager, he’s equally comfortable architecting solutions, writing integration code, and strengthening developer tooling. Based in rural Pennsylvania, he pairs practical, production-focused engineering with a strong commitment to open source and nonprofit outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science in Commerce Degree, Bachelors of Science in Commerce Degree at Rider University
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Github Skills (7)
salesforce-api10
apex10
python10
salesforce10
testing9
cicd8
continuous-integration8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SFDO-Tooling/CumulusCI
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
Python framework for building portable automation for Salesforce projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Salesforce Automation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Salesforce Automation SpecialistContributions:3 reviews, 36 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `cumulusci` project, a Python framework designed for Salesforce automation. Their work focused on enhancing the Anonymous Apex task, adding support for optional parameters and improving the existing test suite. Furthermore, the user added a custom setting value wait task. These changes indicate a focus on expanding the framework's capabilities for Salesforce development and testing. The commits also include code formatting and documentation updates.
pythonsalesforceautomationportablepython-framework
force2b/MassTransferContacts
Jul 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 11 pushes in 11 months
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