Philip Nelson
Pilot at AVIATION CHARTER, INC.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Nelson is a founder and technology leader with 13 years’ experience building Salesforce-focused products and teams, currently leading KLĪMVIA while also flying medevac and charter missions as a Beechcraft First Officer. He recruits, trains, and scales distributed, non-traditional talent to deliver efficient Salesforce implementations and has led product and engineering organizations that built CRM and grants-management solutions for nonprofits. A hands-on operator, Philip has contributed DevOps improvements to the widely used CumulusCI Python tooling—streamlining CI/CD for Salesforce projects and private repo deployments. He combines entrepreneurial grit (co-founding KLĪMVIA with his wife) with operational discipline from aviation and enterprise product leadership, enabling reliable delivery in high-stakes environments.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
AA, General Studies, AA, General Studies at University of Northwestern - St. Paul
Github Skills (5)
bash10
continuous-integration10
github10
cicd10
salesforce8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SFDO-Tooling/CumulusCI
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Python framework for building portable automation for Salesforce projects
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 36 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Philip's contributions primarily focused on modifying the CI/CD pipeline configuration within the `ci/codeship.sh` script. They updated the script to handle deployments to private GitHub repositories, refined exit code evaluations using `$?`, and integrated better test matching. Additionally, they worked on fetching tags and incorporating a script for updating dependencies related to mrbelvedere. These changes are aimed at improving the automation and reliability of the build and release process for the project.
pythonsalesforceautomationportablepython-framework
almostthor/Metaforce
Aug 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:132 commits in 9 months
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