Excellent breakdown, anyone who says "I'm new to Salesforce and I want to be a Technical Architect" should be forced to watch this video. Congratulations on the 3rd kiddo! I love for my little girl, it's all that matters. I'm happy to see you being dad of the year on this topic in my opinion 🙏
Welcome back David!!! Your insight and clear explanations has definitely helped tens of thousands of people find new opportunities in this space! Congrats on the new kid! woooo
Thanks so much for explaining all these terms and responsibilities. I like to thank you from my bottom of heart, 6 years ago my journey from full stack web developer to Salesforce developer is because of your blogs and tutorials, appreciate your time and effort to share your knowledge.
Hi David, awesome video as always. Thanks for sharing your courses with me, I plan to take the Platform Dev 1 cert before the year ends! Wish me luck and I hope your channel grows
Hi David, Glad to see you back after a long break. I really want to be hands on and never lose my touch. Is it possible to be an architect and still be hands on ? I know just like you said a lot of job roles are not truly architect positions, but if I clear my CTA very long road ahead will I still get to keep my coding part with me ?
I'd love to know where they don't both load TAs with meetings, design, and have them cover hands on, the board, and the dev and admin teams... I have head that for years and not once in my 10 years as a tech arch experienced it in practicality- from small shops to the big 5.
Yay you're back ! You've been such an inspiration for me since I've began my Salesforce journey back in 2018 ! I'm now a Salesforce dev with the PD2 and on my way to become an architect ! Thank you SO much for all you're doing for the community :)
Hey David, Congratulations on becoming father once again. You are my inspiration. Heck I pinged you in twitter previously regarding some career decision I had. Thanks for replying though. With your motivation and inspirations, I made it to Salesforce... Finally 🤘🏻 It was my goal becoming an architect in next 5 yr... Maybe its a bit harder journey than I thought and you made me rethink about being one. I feel I can't handle long meetings and not getting chance to make hands dirty with real implementation. Thanks, 😊
OMG I'm an STA and didn't know it. I just work really hard (or really efficient), know every nook & cranny of my 1800 user system, work directly and make great relationships with business leads all over the world, run the dev team, ghost-run the SCRUM, but also do 80% of the development (so I guess that's why I'm not?)... but I have always turned down literal people management despite being a mentor. I make hella good PPT and Visio, record training or provide it on-site... I don't know what I am. Except doomed; I outlive everyone who's ever given me huge props so there won't be anyone left to write my LinkedIn recs when I move on :(
Get 100x certified by memorizing exam questions via many websites available online and then BS your way through at large organization pretending you know how to solve something. That's the experience I've had with most Salesforce professionals in last 3 years.
Great to see you back David! Congrats on your 3rd kiddo. Ever since I watched your first video 2 years ago I was hooked and watched all your videos in 2 days. I go back from time to time and watch a lot of your videos for inspiration. Thank you so much for everything you do for the Salesforce and IT community. P.s. Will you be at Dreamforce this year? Would love to meet you in person.
Congrats on your third kid! Any advice on a supply chain major who has worked with SAP, Oracle and logistics at big firms now transitioning into a job utilizing Salesforce ERP and implementation therein for a mid-size company? Thanks!
Get certified, play around in a dev org to try to understand the parallels and differences between platforms, and use your previous experience to your advantage from a process perspective
David! I’ve been waiting for this vid for almost a year! 😁🤘Congratulations on your 3rd little one! 🎉 Thank you for the great value in this video and I sincerely look forward to the content / courses you’re working on.
Knowledgeable and with a mix of humor? I'm an immediate fan! As a new admin who is being trained to inherit the bulk of the salesforce responsibilities in my small company. This is the guidance I've been searching for the past few weeks. Thank you so much for the digestible breakdown. Its a year late, but congrats on the baby!
Many many congratulations 🎉 for the third child David .. best wishes for good health of mommy and baby.. and you rocked RU-vid with another video .. appreciate your time and efforts to make this video
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!!! Thanks a lot, David K.Liu for the insights! It really helps me to decide on my career path. and Great to see you back! Appreciate your advice! 👍
So right about knowing complementary technologies. That’s probably the most underrated skill for a Salesforce professional. And Congrats on the new kiddo. 🎉
I am a Java & Java script student , and i learnt them. Please suggest me should i pursue SalesForce a career ? How r the prospects ? Or should i pursue another field ?
Good to see you back in front of the camera David. All the Technical Architect points sound right, but I don’t know how you can describe a solution architect as just a glorified admin who can’t code. There’s now a Solution Architect cert that includes Platform Developer I as a prerequisite, and you need to be able to write Apex for that.
Thanks for the info! Can't say I agree with Salesforce's choices here, as it's odd to me that a Solutions Arch cert would require a marketing cloud cert and a pd1. But it's all pretty new and I'm curious to see how it shakes up.
Congratulations on your thrid kiddo 🎉🎉 Happy to see you back and I request you to upgrade your Salesforce courses on Pluralsight. 😊 My career path or destination is to become a Salesforce Solution Architect and I need your brief guidance on it. Waiting for your further updates.
Welcome back David and congratulations on the 3rd Kiddo🎊 Recently I started my career as a Salesforce admin in startup. Your videos helped me, and success stories in sfdc99 makes me motivated to earn new certs. I am planning for PD1 now😊. Thanks for everything, it's good to see you back🤝
Hi Sir, I been working as a Salesforce admin from past two years for a big project, I want to change my career as Salesforce developer or commerce cloud developer, can you please help me to choose one of them, I been worked as a Java developer 3 years and moved to sfc admin role
So basically anyone who's ever worked in a smaller company as the sole Salesforce admin has also been the technical architect. Not necessarily a very good one, but a technical architect none the less.
David, is it better to be an admin/dev who mostly updates and modifies existing code and has a very strong admin background….. or is it better to be in a role where you code heavily and are very fluent in code?
That is what I'm betting on myself. Salesforce + AI / data science. If my son was just graduating from college now I'd say go full data science with focus on AI
Hello, David. It is great to see you back again!! Thank you for opening the CTA box!! Now, I am more confident than ever that the CTA path is what I will continue journeying on🥾! But first I need to get a full-time Salesforce Developer job.💪You can probably tell my daughter is helping me with this reply 👧 and one hour less time with my family 😂
