I recently had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with Parker, and was most intrigued by how it could be possible for a CTO of such a large and growing company to stay in the loop with all the latest software developments and innovations.
Often, we spend hours and hours training before we can work on projects. Parker had recently spoken about Salesforce DX – a brand new feature about to be released to speed up the process of development cycles, bringing proper development tools for version control. I was surprised when Parker told me that he likes to spend hands on time with the latest developments when ever he is able. Parker further explained how the night before he spoke about DX – he set up a few of his own scratch org’s and really experimented with the feature.
This made me realize that as a person in the tech industry, I’ve seen many developers working on non-technical work. Most don’t love it! To quote from my conversation with Parker Harris “At heart I am a developer, my happy place is when I am in front of code” – this is amazing life advice, try and always be involved in what you are good at and what you enjoy.