About The Space

SalesforceSpace.com is an outlet for challenges, solutions, and personal experience. Spreading my passion for Salesforce ideas, hacks, and tricks, the blog documents my endeavors with the platform, sharing the journey.

Tom Tam
Founder & Editor

Following college, I joined the family business in restaurant wholesale. After trying to spin up a website to represent us, I grew frustrated with the template site builders. I began looking into building a custom website on my own. I quickly fell into a rabbit hole of researching web development and programming.

I became fascinated with how I was able manipulate elements on the screen. At that point, I realized I should have studied something else in college. A little while later I worked at a life insurance company as an analyst, but web development was still on my brain.

I continued my self-study, trying to build myself up to seek internal opportunities. That was the plan. Enter Salesforce; during one of our stand ups someone mentioned that word, "Salesforce." I've heard of it before but had to Google it. Reading about the platform blew me away. I can make a career being a Salesforce developer. What I had previously learned about web development was transferrable.

I discussed my goals with my manager and he was extremely supportive. We talked about my growing interest in Salesforce. In my spare time, I blitzed Trailheads and got certified to build my credibility. I connected with an internal Salesforce stakeholder, and I learned how our company uses the platform. I interviewed and got recruited into an internal training pool of to be Salesforce admins and developers. Some business units shared a large org of over 1000 users. Other units had smaller separate orgs who expressed interest in consolidating. We adhered to native, declarative functionality as to limit customization thus improving maintainability.

I then moved on to consulting. I appreciate the variety of projects that come by and the new challenges. I continue to strive for growth and improvement in the space.