Tameem Bahri - Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect: Prepare for the review board by practicing example-led architectural strategies and best practices

Prepare for the review board by practicing example-led architectural strategies and best practices

Tameem Bahri

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To my mother, Raefa Arwani, my first teacher, and the most brilliant person I have ever known. To my wife, Lana, and my son, Ameer, for their love, support, and inspiration.

Tameem Bahri is the European Salesforce CTO at Capgemini and a Salesforce CTA with a demonstrated work history in the information technology and business consultation industry, with over 17 years of experience across business transformation, digital services, innovation, process design and redesign, enterprise system security, identity and access management (IAM), and enterprise solution architecture. He has worked across several industries, such as manufacturing, Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), travel and transportation, energy and utilities, property management, and software development. He has led dozens of Salesforce implementations worldwide and currently heads Capgemini's program to develop the next generation of CTAs.

I'd like to thank the following people at Packt who made this book possible: Alok Dhuri, who was the first to express faith in me, and Nitee Shetty, Ruvika Rao, Francy Puthiry, and Prajakta Naik, who worked tirelessly with me to improve my drafts. I'd also like to thank the reviewer, Ali Najefi, an admirable CTA himself, for his helpful advice and support.

Ali Najefi is an enterprise architect with 18 years' experience of which 13 years has been in Salesforce. He is a Salesforce CTA with a track record of delivering complex digital transformation projects on the Salesforce platform.

He has led the Salesforce architecture and design authority team, responsible for ensuring all Salesforce delivery teams adhere to Salesforce's best architecture and design principles. He has a significant interest in cybersecurity, IAM, digital data management, MDM, analytics, and AI. He has worked on several enterprise clients directing both architectural domain and delivering solutions that have proven to be secure and scalable for millions of end customers and thousands of enterprise users.