MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers
A practitioner’s guide to deploying MuleSoft APIs and integrations for Salesforce enterprise solutions
Arul Christhuraj Alphonse
Alexandra Martinez
Akshata Sawant
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers
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Contributors
About the authors
Arul Christhuraj Alphonse works as a senior integration architect at Cognizant. Before working at Cognizant, he also worked at Akmin Technologies, Quinnox, IBM, and TCS. He has over 18 years of experience in the integration and API domain and has designed over 1,000 integrations. His educational qualifications include Master of Computer Applications and Master of Business Administration degrees, and his professional qualifications include MuleSoft Mentor, MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect, MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect, MuleSoft Certified Developer Level 1, and SoftwareAG webMethods Certified Professional. He was born and raised in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India, and currently lives in Singapore. He shares his knowledge through Udemy and the Tech Lightning YouTube channel.
I thank God because without God I wouldn’t be able to do any of this. I would like to thank my loving and understanding wife, Sahaya Divya, my son, Rithwin, my daughter, Riya, and also my family for their continuous support, patience, and encouragement throughout the long process of writing this book. Big thanks to my team at Cognizant and DFS for being supportive.
Alexandra Martinez is a developer advocate at MuleSoft, creating technical content to enable developers and architects to get started with MuleSoft’s products. Before this, Alex worked as a MuleSoft developer and was part of the MuleSoft community as an Ambassadress and meetup leader for the Toronto, Online Spanish, and Women Who Mule chapters. Alex has more than 10 years of experience in technology and has developed software in other languages, such as Java, Python, and PHP. Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Alexandra’s MuleSoft career was key to moving to a different country, and she currently lives in Niagara Falls, Canada. Alex volunteers at organizations such as Women Who Code and Olascoaga MX to help close the gender gap in STEM careers.
I want to thank my dream team at MuleSoft: Mariana Lemus, Sabrina Marechal, Sabrina Hockett, Isabella Navarro, David Norris, and Meghan Murphy. You have helped me in more ways than you’ll ever know and I really appreciate it. I also want to thank Bits In Glass for changing my life, especially Aaron Wentzell and Graham Fraser for mentoring me.
Akshata Sawant is a developer advocate at MuleSoft. She’s been evangelizing MuleSoft through her blogs, videos, and training sessions. She has around five years of experience as a MuleSoft developer. Apart from this, she's also a MuleSoft Certified Developer and an architect. Akshata has been an active member of the MuleSoft community and is also a former MuleSoft Ambassadress and a meetup leader for the London, Mumbai, and Manchester regions. Her roots go back to Mumbai but she’s currently living her London dream. She’s been a global speaker and mentors women in the integration ecosystem.
I would like to thank my parents, Dan, Shubham, Chetan Parekh Sir, family, and my mentors at Apisero and EPAM for always motivating me. Thanks to all my friends for their honest reviews on my content. Thanks to everyone at Packt for being so patient and Uzma Sherin for trusting me with this book. To my team at MuleSoft and my amazing MuleSoft Community, a big thank you from the bottom of my heart! Ambadnya!
About the reviewers
Gaurav Kheterpal is a well-known name in the Salesforce ecosystem, a Salesforce MVP since 2016, and he holds 40 Salesforce Certifications, 21 Salesforce AP Credentials and 5 MuleSoft Certifications – he is ranked among the top 3 globally certified experts in Salesforce & Mulesoft ecosystems.
Gaurav has been recognized by Salesforce as a Developer Success Story and a Trailblazer. He has delivered several sessions at leading events such as Dreamforce, TrailheaDX, Salesforce World Tour, London’s Calling, and several others. Gaurav is passionate about evangelizing Salesforce and MuleSoft platforms in the broader community.
D Rajesh Kumar is a Lead MuleSoft Integration Architect with 17+ years of extensive experience in the IT industry. For the last 8 years, he has been working on the MuleSoft platform in various domains for end-to-end platform setups, architecture, design and Center for Enablement (C4E) setups and execution. He is a MuleSoft Certified Architect and a MuleSoft Ambassador recognized by MuleSoft for his expertise in Mule. He is currently working for TCS as Solution Architect and previously worked for Infosys, HCL, and Jamcracker.