About the Authors

Rakesh Gupta is a Salesforce MVP, evangelist, trainer, blogger, and an independent Salesforce consultant. He is from Katihar, Bihar, and lives in Mumbai. He has been working on the Force.com platform since 2011. Currently, he is working as a Salesforce consultant and is a regular contributor to the Salesforce Success Community. He is the co-author of Developing Applications with Salesforce Chatter, Packt Publishing, and he is also a technical reviewer of Learning Force.com Application Development, Packt Publishing. He is very passionate about Force.com and shares information through various channels, including his blog at http://rakeshistom.wordpress.com.

He has trained almost 150 professionals around the globe and handled corporate trainings. He has 5x certifications in Salesforce. He works on all the aspects of Salesforce and is an expert in data migration, integration, configuration, and customization. He is the leader of the Navi Mumbai and Nashik developer user groups in India. He is also the initiator of the Mumbai Salesforce user group. He organizes Meetups at regular intervals for the groups he is part of.

He can be reached at <rakeshistom@gmail.com>, or you can follow him on Twitter @rakeshistom.

I would like to thank my parents, Kedar Nath Gupta and Madhuri Gupta, and my sister, Sarika Gupta, for supporting me in every step of my life. I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity to share my knowledge via this book. I would also like to thank Adam Seligman, Vice President, Developer and Partner Marketing at Salesforce.com, for encouraging me. A special thanks to all my well-wishers and friends.

Lastly, I would like to thank my good friend and co-author of this book, Sagar Pareek, who came up with good ideas. I thank him for spending many nights and weekends working on this book with me.

Sagar Pareek is a Salesforce enthusiast, blogger, author, and Salesforce certified Force.com developer. He is from Bikaner, Rajasthan, and currently lives in Noida. He has been working on the Force.com platform since 2012, from his college days. Since 2013, he is working for Astrea IT Services Pvt. Ltd., Noida as a Salesforce developer. Prior to that, he worked as a PHP and Java intern at Acme Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bikaner. He was featured by Salesforce in a webinar (Boost Your Career: Get Cloud-Trained and Certified). He won a prize in the Salesforce New Year Resolution 2013 challenge. He actively participates in the Salesforce discussion platforms such as user groups and organizing workshops. He leads the India Salesforce student developer user group and is the co-leader of the Navi Mumbai Salesforce developer user group. You can follow him on his blog at http://forceexperiment.wordpress.com. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Rajasthan Technical University and is an alumnus of Manda Institute of Technology, Bikaner. He spends his spare time with his family and friends and exploring Force.com. He is the co-author of Developing Applications with Salesforce Chatter, Packt Publishing.

You can connect with him on Twitter @Sagarjaipareek.

I would like to thank my parents Sushil Pareek and Chanchal Pareek, my siblings Nikita Pareek and Dr. Sugita Pareek, my gurus Manish Shandilya and Pankaj Kumar Pandey, my mentors Kavindra Patel, Director, Developer Programs and Events at Salesforce.com, and Paresh Gupta, co-founder, Sharp Edge Learning. Special thanks to all the reviewers who spent their precious time reviewing our content. Thanks to the cartoonist Anil Bhargava for his excellent work on the images used in this book.

Last but not least, I would like to thank my best friend and co-author Rakesh Gupta for his constant support and trust that enabled me to reach this level and write this book.