René Winkelmeyer
Senior Director, Developer Relations
Finnentrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top expert inSalesforce Development with Lightning Web Components and Heroku Integration
René Winkelmeyer is a Senior Director of Developer Relations at Salesforce with over a decade of experience leading global developer advocacy, content strategy, and cross-cloud technical programs. He blends hands-on engineering chops—contributing to prominent open-source and Salesforce sample projects like lwc-recipes, dreamhouse-lwc and the shiki syntax highlighter—with executive leadership of a distributed team that builds high-scale demos, tooling, and activations. René is known for working closely with R&D and product teams as a “Customer Zero,” shaping early product functionality and messaging for developer-focused launches. His background spans backend API work (including a Salesforce provider for ScribeJava) through front-end LWC improvements and testing, reflecting a full-stack fluency that informs practical developer experience decisions. Based in Germany, he brings a pragmatic mix of enterprise systems experience, community stewardship (former IBM Champion and OpenNTF board member), and a bias toward demonstrable, production-ready developer tools.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (41)
salesforce-api10
javascript10
apidoc10
lwc10
css10
textmate10
typescript10
web-components10
ui-design10
java10
grammar10
javas10
uid10
grammars10
api10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
trailheadapps/lwc-recipes
Dec 2018 - May 2020
A collection of easy-to-digest code examples for Lightning Web Components on Salesforce Platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 40 commits, 121 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:René primarily worked on improving the codebase of Lightning Web Components (LWC) on the Salesforce platform. They fixed Apex return statements, updated package versions, and removed trailing commas. Furthermore, the user added several Jest tests for various LWC recipes, including those involving Apex methods, events, and LDS (Lightning Data Service) operations. This demonstrates a focus on both the front-end and back-end aspects of the project.
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trailheadapps/easy-spaces-lwc
Dec 2018 - Apr 2020
Sample application for Lightning Web Components on Salesforce Platform. Part of the sample gallery. Event management use case. Get inspired and learn best practices.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 42 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:René primarily focused on front-end development using Lightning Web Components (LWC) within the Salesforce ecosystem. They implemented UI improvements, fixed formatting issues, and integrated components for reservation management and customer details. Additionally, the user made minor code adjustments and configurations. The user also updated the README for GA, updated CI configuration, and added GA unlocked packages.
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