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Joshua Long

Senior Salesforce Developer and Architect. 16 years in the Salesforce ecosystem. 7 active certifications. The person you called when your SOQL query broke at midnight and you needed someone who actually understood the platform.

517 shared calendar events~10 years working together

The Arc

Josh Long has been writing Salesforce code since 2010. That was sixteen years ago. Most people in the Salesforce ecosystem have been doing it for five, maybe seven years. Josh has been doing it for sixteen. Eight certifications earned, seven still active. That's not a resume line — that's a lifestyle.

At Innovate! Inc., Josh was the senior technical lead you wanted on your project. EPA government implementations, Georgia State University's entire Salesforce ecosystem, UCI Ascend at the University of California, Irvine — Josh built the things that mattered. He wrote the APEX, he designed the integrations, he debugged the Jitterbit pipelines, and when something broke in production, he was the one who fixed it.

He also built systems that made everyone else's life easier. AutoDocs — a document automation system that became so essential to the team, they created a training session called “AutoBots Love AutoDocs.” That's when you know you've built something real: when the team names a training after it.

Career Timeline

~2010

Salesforce Developer

Innovate! Inc.

Started in the Salesforce ecosystem when most people were still calling it Salesforce.com. Began writing APEX, building VisualForce pages, and learning the platform inside-out. One of the early Salesforce developers at Innovate, establishing the technical foundation for what would become years of government and higher education implementations.

~2012 - 2016

Senior Salesforce Developer

Innovate! Inc. — EPA & Government Projects

Worked on critical government Salesforce implementations including EPA programs like HSRAP, OPEEE, CAS/BMC, NISS, and CIS. Built integrations, wrote complex SOQL queries, and developed automation that kept federal programs running. Led CROMERR summary work and became the go-to technical resource for the team.

~2016 - 2020

Senior Salesforce Developer / Technical Lead

Innovate! Inc. — GSU & Higher Education

Took the lead on Georgia State University's Salesforce implementation. Organized POCs, ran knowledge transfer sessions, and built the Eventbrite-Salesforce integration that the university relied on. Collaborated extensively with Glen on GSU — their shared calendar reads like a buddy comedy: 'josh and glen gsu', 'glen josh gsu yee haw', 'josh/glen eventbrite gsu'.

~2020 - 2022

Salesforce Architect / Technical Lead

Innovate! Inc. — UCI Ascend & Integrations

Led technical work on the UCI Ascend project for the University of California, Irvine. Built and maintained Jitterbit integration pipelines, designed AutoDocs — a document automation system the team loved so much they created a training called 'AutoBots Love AutoDocs'. Continued to be the person everyone turned to for the hardest technical problems.

2010 - 2026

16 Years in the Salesforce Ecosystem

8 Certifications Earned, 7 Active

Sixteen years of continuous Salesforce development, architecture, and technical leadership. Eight certifications earned across the platform. The kind of deep, sustained expertise that only comes from solving real problems for real organizations, year after year, across government, higher education, and enterprise.

What Josh Brings

Salesforce Development

APEX, SOQL, VisualForce, Lightning — Josh writes the code that makes Salesforce do things it wasn't designed to do. The kind of developer who doesn't just solve the problem but makes the solution elegant.

Systems Integration

Eventbrite, Jitterbit, Data Loader, custom APIs — Josh built the bridges between systems. When two platforms needed to talk to each other, Josh was the one who made the introduction and wrote the translation layer.

Government & Higher Education Salesforce

EPA, Georgia State University, UCI — Josh has implemented Salesforce in environments where the requirements are complex, the stakeholders are many, and the consequences of getting it wrong are serious.

AutoDocs & Document Automation

Co-created AutoDocs, a document automation system that became so integral to the team's workflow they built a whole training program around it. The 'AutoBots Love AutoDocs' session is still legendary.

Technical Leadership & Knowledge Transfer

Ran GSU knowledge transfer sessions, organized POCs, trained team members, and mentored developers. The kind of technical leader who makes everyone around them better, not just himself.

By the Numbers

Years in Salesforce

Active Certifications

517

Shared Calendar Events

Total Certs Earned

How I Know Josh

Nearly a decade at Innovate! Inc., side by side

Josh and I worked together at Innovate! Inc. for close to a decade. Five hundred and seventeen shared calendar events. That's not a typo. 517. We built things together, broke things together, and fixed things together — usually on a deadline, usually for a government agency or a university that needed it yesterday.

When I had a SOQL problem at midnight — the kind where you can't loop and update the main record for exclusion, and offset only goes to 2000 — Josh was the person I'd message. I literally created a calendar event called “Ask Josh About soql looping w/o being able to update main record for exclusion, offset is only 2000.” That's how you know someone is the real deal: when your calendar becomes a queue of questions specifically for them.

We built AutoDocs together. We integrated Eventbrite with Salesforce for GSU. We debugged Jitterbit pipelines that nobody else wanted to touch. “glen josh gsu yee haw” was literally a calendar event. That tells you everything you need to know about how we worked — heads down, building, and still having a good time doing it.

Innovate was a special place, and Josh was a big part of what made it special. Working alongside Catherine Nolan, Jordon Schulman, Larry Spackman, Mark Filpus, Matt Brumberger, Stacey Cogswell, Tom Perkowitz, Chris Burge, Rebecca Thomas, Paul Stephens, and Tim Lynch — that was a team. And Josh was the technical backbone of it.

Why He Matters

There's a difference between someone who can pass a Salesforce certification exam and someone who can architect a solution for a federal agency, build the integrations, write the APEX, train the team, and keep the whole thing running for years. Josh is the second kind.

Sixteen years of continuous, deep Salesforce work. Government agencies trust him with their data. Universities trust him with their student systems. Teams trust him with the hardest problems. When you've been doing this as long as Josh has, the certifications are just confirmation of what everyone already knows: this is someone who has mastered the platform.

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