SendGrid Evangelist > Scott Motte
As a SendGrid evangelist, Scott Motte travels the US and parts of the world repping SendGrid’s API. His job can be described as part engineering, part marketing, and part public relations. In addition to spreading adoption of SendGrid’s API, Scott led development on SendGrid’s open source libraries. Scott is also an avid open source contributor, and has authored many popular projects, including the most complete rubygem for DigitalOcean. His latest project was development of an APEX library for SendGrid, which he finished with some help from Daniel Ballinger, AirPair’s Salesforce expert.
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In this AirPair, Daniel helps Scott build SendGrid’s APEX library.
In Scott’s Own Words: Developing SendGrid’s APEX Library
SendGrid didn’t have an APEX library. Now we do. It’s thanks to AirPair.
One month ago, our team at SendGrid made the decision to build an APEX library. Salesforce developers were increasingly choosing SendGrid as their email solution, but there were some unnecessary complexities. An APEX library would smooth out those complexities – making it easier to send email through SendGrid on Salesforce.
But we had a problem. No one on SendGrid’s engineering team had ever done Salesforce/APEX development.
I took on the task of developing the APEX library. I jumped into the Salesforce development environment and started coding. It was unfamiliar, had unique approaches to development, and had an involved configuration. I needed expert knowledge. My friend and colleague Heitor recommended AirPair.
Teaming Up With AirPair
Daniel is a top answerer for Salesforce questions on Stack Overflow.
Daniel was great. He knew his Salesforce and addressed all my questions on the Salesforce development environment.
Within 30 minutes he had guided me to a very nice Salesforce development environment. It fit my development style. I could tell this was going to be good.
I spent another 3.5 hours – broken up over the course of a week – pairing with Daniel over Google hangouts. In that short time, thanks to his guidance, I had a working SendGrid Salesforce library, knowledge of the APEX language, and the foundation I needed to self-teach myself from there. The result was the release of sendgrid-apex.
The Value of Using AirPair
The number one thing AirPair did was match me up with Daniel. They vetted a good developer that could also teach well. But AirPair also made sure the process was smooth. Igor kept things running on time, scheduled and setup our Google hangouts, and kicked off each of our pairing hangouts.
I’ll be using AirPair in the future. It’s a good service for getting up to speed quickly on a new development environment or complex coding task. Their hands on approach goes a long ways.
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