Learning Salesforce on the Job

The Skills That Stacked Up

Apex, LWC, Marketing Cloud, Einstein Bots, JIRA workflows, data migrations — the whole enterprise toolkit. None of it learned from a bootcamp or a YouTube playlist. All of it learned from production bugs, Friday deploys, and people smarter than him saying “try this instead.”

The People Who Mattered More Than the Certifications

Laura, Josh, Jordon, Catherine, Rob, Phil. Glen built shrine pages for several of them on his website. Not because they asked. Because working with good people for a decade leaves a mark, and the least you can do is write it down.

The Friday Weeklies

Glen misses conversations with Chris from GSU and their Friday weeklies. The kind of meetings where you actually solve problems instead of talking about solving problems. The kind where someone says “that's a terrible idea” and means it as a compliment because at least you're thinking.

Still hopes to get Innovate on Delivery Hub someday — with unique logins for all the people he used to work with. That's not a business pitch. That's a thank-you note disguised as a product demo.

A Decade of Compound Learning

Ten years at one company is rare in tech. Rarer still to leave and actually miss the people. Glen didn't become a Salesforce developer because of a career plan. He became one because someone gave him a chance, a few people showed him the ropes, and he was too stubborn to quit before it clicked.

The certifications came later. The skills stacked up over years. But the thing that actually mattered was the team — the people who made showing up worth it, even on the days when the deploy failed and the deadline hadn't moved.