The Sitecore MVP program is designed to recognize individuals who have demonstrated advanced knowledge of the Sitecore platform and a commitment to sharing knowledge and technical expertise with community partners, customers, and prospects over the past year. The program is open to anyone who is passionate about Sitecore and has a desire to contribute to the community.
Over the past application year starting from December 1st, 2023, I have been actively involved in the Sitecore community, contributing in a number of ways.
Sitecore Blogs
- This year I have written 18 blog posts at the Perficient site on various topics related to Sitecore, including my Crash Course to Next.Js with TypeScript and GraphQL, top-notch findings about XM Cloud and other composable products, best practices, tips and tricks, and case studies. Listing them all by the bullets would make this post too long, therefore instead I leave the link to the entire list of them, shown reverse chronologically.
- I’ve been also posting on my very own blog platform, which already contains more than 200 posts about Sitecore accumulated over the past years.
- Also, I occasionally create video recordings/walkthrough and upload them to my YouTube channel.
Sitecore User Groups
- Organized three Los Angeles Sitecore User Groups (#19, #20, and #21). This user group has ~480 members!
- Last fall I established and organized the most wanted user group of the year – Sitecore Headless Development UserGroup educating its 410+ members. This one is very special since headless development has become the new normal of delivering sites with Sitecore, while so many professionals feel left behind unable to catch up with the fast-emerging tech. I put it as my personal mission to run it twice per quarter helping the community learn and grow “headlessly” and that is one of my commitments to it. It became the most run and the most attended/reviewed event of all Sitecore user groups with eight events organized over this year (#1 and #2) (#3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10) along with event #11 scheduled for December 12th. All the recordings are publicly available on YouTube, and also referenced from the individual event pages.
- Presented my innovative approach to the Content Migration for XM Cloud solutions.
- Another user group presentation narrates all the new features happening with Next.Js 15, breaking API changes and what it all means for Sitecore.
GitHub
- Sifon project keeps maintained and receives new features. Thus Sifon got support for Sitecore 10.4 platforms.
- I keep Awesome Sitecore project up and actual. This repository has plenty of stars on GitHub and is an integral part of a big Awesome Lists family, if you haven’t heard of Awesome Lists and its significance I highly recommend reading these articles – first and the second.
- There are also a few less significant repositories among my contributions that are still meaningful and helpful.
Sitecore Mentor Program
- Got two mentees in 2024, supported them over the course of a year, also delivered them both full-scaled XM Cloud training along with the certification.
- One of my past year mentees was recognized as Sitecore MVP in 2024, resulting from an Exclusive Mentorship Agreement, proving my mentoring approach was successful.
MVP Program
- I participate in most of the webinars and MVP Lunches (often in both time zones per event).
- I think MVP Summit is the best perk of the MVP Program, so never miss it out. This year I’ve learned a lot and also provided feedback to the product teams, as usual.
- I participate in several streams of the Early Access Program, sharing insights with the product team ahead of GA dates.
- In the past, I have participated in a very honorable activity helping to review the first-time applicants for the MVP Program which is the first line of the evaluation and we carefully match every first-time applicant against high Sitecore MVP standards. This year I am taking part in reviewing as well.
Sitecore Learning
I collaborated with the Sitecore Learning team for the past 2-3 years, and this year was not an exception:
- I was invited by Sitecore Learning to make an excellent detailed review of a new feature - XM Cloud Forms Builder for Tips & Tricks series.
Sitecore Telegram
- I am making Telegram a premium-level channel for delivering Sitecore news and materials. Telegram has a unique set of features that no other software can offer, and I am leveraging these advantages for more convenience to my subscribers.
- Started in 2017 as a single channel, it was expanding rapidly and has now reached a milestone of 1,100 subscribers!
- Growth did not stop but escalated further beyond Sitecore going composable with having a dedicated channel for almost any composable product. Here all they are:
Support Tickets
- CS0514702 (Content Hub)
- CS0462816 (SPE for XM Cloud)
- CS0518934 (Forms Builder)
Other Contributions
- I created Sitecore MVP section in the Wikipedia, explaining MVP Program, its significance for Sitecore and the overall process of determining the winners.
- I am very active on my LinkedIn (with 7K+ followers) and Twitter aka X (with almost ~1.2K subscribers), multiple posts per week, sometimes a few a day.
With my dedication to Sitecore's new flagship product, XM Cloud, it was no wonder I just launched a new XM Cloud Daily series of tips and tricks on social media (this actually started in December 2024, so it falls on a new application period).- That comes in addition to the existing series on LinkedIn - Headless Tips & Tricks, where I share the insights and nuances of modern headless development with Sitecore
The above is what I memorized about my annual contributions so far. Wishing all decent applicants to join this elite club for the coming year!