My First TrailblazerDX as a Salesforce CTA
My first TrailblazerDX experience was in 2018, back then it was called Trailhead DX. I was bright, eager, and ready to take…
Nadina Dorene Lisbon
Writer.
Architect.
Tea drinker.
Enterprise architect and AI researcher. Salesforce Certified Technical Architect. Fiction as Nadina Dorene.
Architecture
I design CRM and integration systems for large organizations. Salesforce is where I am certified deepest, but the work runs across platforms. Most of it is deciding what not to build.
TechSips
A weekly newsletter for people running technology organizations. AI, security, and the parts of the job nobody puts in the strategy deck.
Fiction
Psychological thrillers, written as Nadina Dorene. Longlisted for the 2026 Novel Beginnings Contest, 183 of 14,570 entries.
About
I have spent twelve years building enterprise software, and I am the first Black woman to earn the Salesforce Certified Technical Architect credential. The work spans CRM platforms, integration, and increasingly AI. I work on systems large enough that the hard part is rarely the code.
I also write. A chapter of mine appears in AI Everywhere, Volume 2, forthcoming from the She Writes AI community, and I write psychological thrillers as Nadina Dorene. The two halves do not explain each other and I have stopped pretending they do. One pays attention to how systems fail. The other pays attention to how people do.
From the margins
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For my second spotlight series it was hard not to bring up Lighting Web Components as there are some interesting things going…
Beta & Beyond: My Favorite Winter ’20 Feature
Now that Winter’ 20 is here, I wanted to quickly highlight my favorite beta feature that is now GA (Generally Avaibalibe).