Nikhil Pote

CTO

Pune, Maharashtra, India11 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of experience in strategic account management.
  • Led successful Salesforce implementations across multiple industries.
  • Expert in driving AI strategy and technical architecture.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Salesforce Architect specializing in AI-driven solutions for enterprise applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Salesforce ArchitectureAi SolutionsProduct DevelopmentTechnical ArchitectureTechnical DeliverySolution ArchitectureTeam LeadershipSalesforce DevelopmentTechnical ImplementationImplementation

Other Skills

AI strategyAWS Elastic BeanstalkAgile MethodologiesAmazon BedrockAmazon Web Services (AWS)ApexAppexchangeArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business AnalysisBusiness ApplicationsCI/CD processChange ControlCloud ComputingCoaching & MentoringCode Review

About

Chief Architect at Expedite Commerce and playing the role of "Head of Product & Architecture". "Executive Leadership Management" member. Heading Product development and delivery. Your guide, critic & advisor on the path toward achieving "Success". • Motivated • Meticulous • Strategic thinker • Creative Leader • Resourceful • Collaborative • Technically proficient • Problem Solver • A firm believer of Keeping things simple • Driven by Zeal to attain the highest pinnacle of excellence 10+ years of experience in strategic account management, product development & up-skilling teams on cutting-edge technologies. Helped the company to achieve the sub second site performance. Innovative & strategic technology leader at the forefront of delivering solutions that solve critical business problems across a variety of domains ranging from Aviation, Financial Services, Real estate, Telecommunications, Health Care, and Social Impact. Enabling customer success by establishing efficient, performant, and cutting-edge technology solutions. Developing and executing strategic initiatives pertaining to establishing architectural & development best practices. Passionate about driving Architecture, leading new initiatives, and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. Internally coaching and mentoring teams to be better architects & to solve business problems with the best possible solutions. Responsible for hiring skilled resources. Had been fortunate to work on: • Salesforce AI/ Einstein Copilot • Appexchange product development using 1st & 2nd generation packaging • Salesforce CPQ • Expedite CPQ • Field Service Lightning • Marketing Cloud • Financial Service Cloud • AWS Amplify & EBS • ​Systems architecture for product, requirements analysis with key stakeholders • Technical sprint planning and delivery, ensuring releases meet delivery timelines • Designing & implementing DevOps, governance processes • Designing and developing applications using the Salesforce platform • Configuration and customizations 1. Integration 2. Automation as per business specifications (process builder, flow, apex, etc.) 3. Rich UI/UX (LWC, AURA, Visualforce) • Products such as Ownbackup, Conga Composer, Drawloop, DocuSign, etc. An effective communicator with excellent relationship-building & interpersonal skills. Robust Leadership techniques with analytic, problem-solving abilities. My expertise and leadership experience is in strategizing with business in creating high value out of transformation projects, and building future capabilities.

Experience

11 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
11 mos
Current Experience

Eightfold

Senior Manager Salesforce Architecture

Jul 2025Present · 11 mos · India · Hybrid

  • Leading the AI strategy, scalability, and integration of the Salesforce ecosystem across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, and Partner functions. Responsible for designing and delivering enterprise-grade, AI-driven solutions that enable revenue operations, streamline GTM workflows, and support product-led growth. Oversee a high-performing team of Salesforce developers and admins, driving cross-functional initiatives and ensuring seamless integration between Salesforce and platforms like Workato, Netsuite, Snowflake, and Eightfold’s Talent Intelligence Platform using AI agents and tools.
SalesforceAI strategyintegrationenterprise solutionscross-functional initiativesSalesforce Architecture+1

Expedite commerce

Chief Architect & Head of Architecture

Jan 2024Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · India · Remote

  • As a Chief Architect of Product Development & Head of Architecture, my major responsibilities includes following:
  • 1. Guiding the successful launch of Expedite Commerce Quote-to-Cash products built upon Salesforce.com.
  • 2. Collaborate with the Leadership, Development and related teams to develop technical solutions and plans for the Expedite Commerce solution suite of products.
  • 3. Guide the Expedite Commerce Development team in the performance and delivery upon stated objectives and delivery timelines.
  • 4. Create technical architecture to be used in the development processes.
  • 5. Develop clear and detailed implementation instructions for the development team to achieve the technical solution
  • 6. Direct various team members to achieve proposed solutions.
  • 7. Conduct code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to development best practices
  • 8. Design and develop integration needed between SF and external platforms to meet requirements
  • 9. Create Best Practice solution accelerators.
  • 10. Run technical workshops to assess and model customer needs
  • 11. Provide technical documentation for solutions
Salesforce.comtechnical architecturecode reviewsintegrationbest practicesProduct Development+1

Cloudwerx

3 roles

Salesforce Technical Architect | Architecture and Development Chapter Lead

Promoted

Apr 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • In my role as a Salesforce Technical Architect at Cloudwerx, I have worked on
  • different activities including
  • ● Understand the full extent of the solution, integration components and
  • how they fit into the Salesforce architecture
  • ● Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges
  • ● Implementing solutions that support business requirements and drive
  • key decisions that improve processes and productivity
  • ● Led the technical delivery of more than 30+ Salesforce implementations
  • ● SME for Architectural deliverables
  • ● Received multiple appreciations for successful deliverables of multiple
  • projects
  • ● Development of custom solutions and integrations
  • ● Coach and mentor technical team members from the project and
  • Cloudwerx team
  • ● Running TechX sessions, an active member of Cloudwerx's Architect
  • Review Board and OpenSource initiative
  • ● Running multiple Architect groups for colleagues focusing on Application
  • and System architect certifications
Salesforce implementationstechnical deliverycustom solutionscoachingmentoringSalesforce Architecture+1

Salesforce Architect | Team Lead

Aug 2020Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • ● Worked extensively as an onshore/offshore coordinator to help the
  • team build a more dynamic and robust solution that meets the clients'
  • expectations.
  • ● Analysed business processes and proposed scalable solutions along with
  • designing the data model to support this configurability.
  • ● Designed and developed a foundation that includes defining the product
  • implementation strategy, and defining best practices defined by Salesforce.
  • ● Conducting design reviews and identifying opportunities to re-use
  • components contributing to the definition of development standards
  • ● Provide hands-on, high-level technical assistance to developers and as
  • necessary, develop custom programs and interfaces
  • ● Manage code review and deployments. Help develop and mentor all team
  • members
business process analysisdata model designdevelopment standardstechnical assistanceSolution ArchitectureTeam Leadership

Salesforce Consultant | Associate Team Lead

Aug 2019Jul 2020 · 11 mos

  • Responsible for implementing technical requirements using: Visualforce pages, Apex classes, Apex triggers, Rest API, Lightning components, LWC, Batches, and SFDC OOTB automation.
  • Build/Updated code to adhere to the salesforce security standards and best practices. Implemented the custom Deal Builder and Deal Wizard to cater to the complete Sales and Support process.
  • Defined the application and system security using the best practices.
  • Configuring Salesforce Field Service Lightning to implement the field processes.
  • Configuring Salesforce CPQ to implement the Quote to Contract process.
  • Implementing Docusign for document management.
  • Documenting the configuration and development changes and following the plan during the release process.
  • Providing KT regarding the process, and resolving doubts regarding various functionalities. Communicated with the business user to understand the continuously growing enhancement requirements of the project and translate them into appropriate user requirements.
VisualforceApexLightning componentsSalesforce CPQDocusignSalesforce Development+1

Eternus solutions private limited

Senior Salesforce Developer

Feb 2016Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Pune

  • In this role, I was responsible for implementation using LWC components, triggers and communities. I was also involved in code reviews based on decided coding standards. Set up CI/CD process and carried out deployments. The project was one of a kind project where the new implementation was consolidation of existing implementation in different Salesforce orgs due to which an additional challenge of understanding both the existing systems came up before building anything new. Delivered Sales/Service cloud implementation and customizations to support ongoing business processes. The project involved moving away from the current systems to migrate the processes on Salesforce to make Salesforce the primary/master application to be used by the company.
  • Responsible for low level solution designing and architecture, estimation, code reviews and implementation as well
LWC componentsCI/CD processSales/Service cloud implementationSalesforce DevelopmentImplementation

Venky's (india) limited

Software Engineer

Sep 2013Feb 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune Area, India

Education

Sinhgad Academy of Engineering,Pune

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Information Technology

Jan 2009Jan 2013

Laxmanrao Aapte Junior College

Higher Secondary — Science

Jan 2007Jan 2009

New English School, Tilak Road

Secondary Education

Jan 2007Present

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