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Enrico Murru is a solution and technical architect at WebResults (an engineering company), an Italian platinum Salesforce partner, and ISV. He completed his MSc in Electronic Engineering at the University of Cagliari in 2007. In 2009, he joined WebResults as a junior Salesforce developer. In 2013, he launched his first blog named Nerd @ Work. In 2016, he was nominated as the first Italian Salesforce MVP due to his commitment to the Salesforce community. In the same year, he started collecting Salesforce certifications, gaining 20 of them over the next 3 years, as part of his own path to the Salesforce Technical Architect certification. In 2016, he started one of his most popular projects, the ORGanizer for Salesforce Chrome and Firefox extension.

Chamil Madusanka was the first Sri Lankan Salesforce MVP and is the director of Sri Lanka's Dazeworks Technologies Pvt. Ltd. office. He has four Salesforce certifications. He is the founder of the Sri Lankan chapter of Salesforce Saturday and a program called TCICThursday.

He has authored Visualforce Developer's Guide and Learning Force.com Application Development. He has also reviewed Salesforce Reporting and Dashboards and Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards.

He completed his first degree, a BSc in computer science, at the University of Colombo's School of Computing. He achieved his MBA in management of technology at the University of Moratuwa. Chamil hails from Polonnaruwa, and can be reached via Twitter at @chamilmadusanka.

Himanshu Atal is a chief information officer at India's Dazeworks Technologies Pvt. Ltd. office , and a very well-known partner of Salesforce with 11 MVPs in the organization . He has more than 8 years' experience in Salesforce and has successfully delivered more than 150 projects using the Salesforce platform.

He has worked with organizations such as IBM India Pvt. Ltd. and Persistent Systems.

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When I was a child, I had a few secret wishes:

• Becoming a great football player: Given my limited football ability, I soon forgot this one.
• Becoming a rock star: Although I love playing drums and piano, I knew this was not my main path.
• Teaching a computer to do what I want: I started coding when I was a small child and this dream soon became reality; not by becoming the best coder in the world, but by being able to adapt to new technologies quickly and productively.
• Being able to draw like a real artist: No chance here I've literally no artistic skills.
• Writing a book.

Writing a book is something that has always been on the list, but I've never had the skill to be a poet or a novel writer. A few years after the start of my career in the Salesforce world, and a few years before my first Salesforce MVP nomination, I casually started to write my own blog, Nerd @ Work, because I discovered that I had something to tell people: not philosophy, not an amazing drama, but my experience on the Salesforce platform. Who was the audience? The Salesforce Ohana, and I was surprised that people liked what I had to say (again, not art but solid technical stuff). This commitment to the community lead me to the unexpected Salesforce MVP nomination and, at the time of writing, I'm approaching my fifth nomination (fingers crossed ).