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title: "Sumanth Naik - Principal Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Sumanth Naik on Tal

## Headline

Salesforce Technical Architect \- Principal Salesforce Engineer @ Kotak Mahindra Bank \|Ex Edelman Financial Engines\|Ex Wells Fargo \|Ex Schneider Electric\|Ex Akamai\|

## About

1\. Salesforce Technical Architect with an experience of architecting,designing,delivering 15\+ end to end Salesforce Projects across different domains that have helped in saving expenditure, Optimizing Business Processes and getting more business 2\. Have built Salesforce Tech teams from Ground Up through efficient Interviewing, Training & Mentoring and reviews 3\. Expert in technologies like Apex, LWC,Flows,REST & Event Driven Integrations \- Platform Events, CDC, and related salesforce tech stack 4\. Skilled in designing reusable components using OOAD design patterns and Fflib framework 5\. Big advocate & adapter of Design Patterns, Clean Code, SOLID principles 6\. Have Designed Advanced Salesforce Courses and given lectures in prestigious stages like Salesforce Developer Days 7\. Skilled in Requirement gathering &analysis and partnering with the business stakeholders to achieve the delivery of Projects in a timely & efficient manner 8\. Tech Content Creator & Reviewer for a book 9

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

deepseek

## Work experience

Principal Engineer at Kotak Mahindra Bank, Oct 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 11 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Handling Salesforce End to End implementation of CLOS \(Corporate loan\)

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Edelman Financial Engines, Jul 2022 \- Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\.Architected & Implemented Salesforce Scheduler while leading a team of 5 people \*\) The project eliminated context switch to different applications outside of Salesforce\. The entire Meeting Scheduling flow was provided as a Single Page App\. \*\) POCs were conducted using Einstein Activity Capture, Revenue Grid but Eventually we had to resort to a complex Integration with Outlook Apis\. 2\) Architected a solution for automated generation of Zoom Links through custom Integration, \*\) This reduced close to 5 clicks just to generate zoom link\. \*\) This also prevented context switch of going to zoom App to get a link 3\) Designed & architected a framework to check Salesforce Health on a periodic basis \*\) This involved assessing and implementing tools like Salesforce Code Analyzer, Apex Guru, Salesforce Graph Analyzer, Salesforce Optimizer \*\) This helped to proactively identify Tech Debts, Code Smells, Unused Code\. \*\) Also designed a governance framework on how these Tech debts must be handled\. 4\) Architected & Implemented an Archival Solution to store data in Grax thus reducing storage on Salesforce 5\) Architected a Solution using Omni Channel where in cases were assigned to a pool of resources\. This eliminated the need to assign Individual support resources to planners 6\) Built a team in India by hiring 5 Devs and 1 QA\. Designed and Implemented a structured KT program to on board resources smoothly 7\) Conducted Tech Talks on 'Dependency Injection', 'Archival Solutions', 'Salesforce Health Check' etc\.

Lead Software Engineer at Wells Fargo, May 2021 \- Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Sr Software Engineer at Schneider Electric, Feb 2020 \- May 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies, Dec 2017 \- Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore, Worked on Various Service cloud Projects Migrated Service Console Apps to Lightning Experience with modern features Used Streaming Api for real time Integrations Worked on email services/Autogen Case Creations Mentored and helped Juniors

## Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Electornics & Communication, GIT Belgaum,VTU

12th PUC, Science, RLS Science Institute

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