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Salesforce Reverse Sync

A configurable reverse-sync system for pushing contract and workflow data back into Salesforce, shaped to be extensible across triggers, conditions, object mappings, and future automation use cases.

Role

Engineering Manager / technical lead

Status

Shipped

Challenge

The immediate request could have been solved as a narrow, hardcoded sync flow, but the real product surface was larger: multiple events, different objects, conditional behavior, and evolving field-mapping needs.

Approach

I pushed the design toward a more reusable automation model with configurable triggers, conditions, find-or-create behavior, and field mapping across Salesforce objects instead of another isolated integration path.

Outcome

The result was a stronger integration foundation that could support richer CRM workflows and became a better base for future automations than a one-off reverse-sync implementation.

What I learned

The highest-leverage technical decisions often come from resisting locally optimal delivery when the future surface area is large and predictable.