Gilad Sher

Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS), Salesforce

Plainfield, IN, USA · triplesher6@gmail.com

Experience

Salesforce - Senior Member of Technical Staff

2025 – Present · Plainfield, IN

  • Joined Salesforce through its 2025 acquisition of Zoomin Software.
  • Started on the Enterprise Knowledge connectors - a direct continuation of the Unified Knowledge connectors built under Zoomin's contract with Salesforce.
  • Transitioned to the Enterprise Knowledge Rendering team, leading new rendering capabilities for unstructured content in Data360 (Data Cloud).
  • Led the metrics and telemetry effort for Enterprise Knowledge - instrumenting the pipeline end-to-end for ingestion health, rendering correctness, and usage.
  • Now also contributing to new accelerator programs within Data360 and Enterprise Knowledge.
  • Developed backend services in Java / Spring Boot.
  • AWS deployments and monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards and alerting.

Zoomin Software - Full Stack Engineer

Feb 2022 – 2025 · New York, NY

  • Co-developed the Unified Knowledge connectors framework - Zoomin's leading project and the main contributor to the Salesforce acquisition. Built with Go (Mortar framework), gRPC, Postgres, and Temporal. Helped design APIs to meet Salesforce's scale standards: millions of requests, low latency, high availability.
  • Maintained and expanded the company's leading product - a large React + Node.js application - and implemented/led new client projects for very large organizations.
  • Led and participated in the development of major customer documentation sites, including: - docs.servicenow.com (ServiceNow) - docs.automationanywhere.com (Automation Anywhere) - docs-cybersec.thalesgroup.com (Thales, formerly Imperva) - documentation.avaya.com (Avaya) - docs.pingidentity.com (Ping Identity) - and others not publicly available.
  • Led key company initiatives including Zoomin GPT and IPH (In-Product Help).
  • Wrote new services from scratch using AWS Lambda (Node.js), SNS, SSM, and the Serverless framework.
  • AWS deployments and monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards and alerting.
  • Event tracking via Google Tag Manager.
  • Built integration and end-to-end testing for new and existing services.
  • Automated CI/CD using Bitbucket Pipelines and GitHub Actions.
  • Integrated third-party vendors such as HigherLogic, Zoho Desk, and Salesforce.
  • Mentored new engineers on the codebase, best practices, code style, and linting.
  • Spoke directly with clients to understand their needs and provide technical confidence alongside the CSM.

Zoomin Software - Junior Full Stack Engineer

Sep 2020 – Feb 2022 · Tel Aviv

Zoomin Software - Professional Services Engineer

Sep 2019 – Sep 2020 · Tel Aviv

  • Implemented customers' documentation-website designs and worked directly with customers on feature requests.
  • Owned the QA and deployment process for customer sites.

Skills

Backend: Go (Golang), gRPC, Temporal, Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Postgres, AWS (Lambda, SNS, SSM), Serverless

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js, SCSS, Webpack, HTML5, CSS3

AI / LLM: Enterprise / Unified Knowledge connectors for Einstein AI, Zoomin GPT

DevOps / Observability: AWS deployments & monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Google Tag Manager

Education

Technion Certified Web Developer - Technion Division of Continuing Education & External Studies, Tel Aviv · 2018 – 2019 Full-stack web development; finished with excellence (top 10% of class).

B.A., Music Studies (Orchestra Conducting) - Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance · 2014 – 2018. Received the America–Israel Foundation scholarship for excellent musicians (4 consecutive years).