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I build the thing and make sure it sticks.

Josh Rainboldt

Twelve years shipping software and keeping it running inside real businesses.

Selected workPhotography

01 / Two rooms

Engineering

I build the thing and make sure it sticks.

Twelve years of backend systems, frontends, infrastructure, and the glue in between — shipped inside real businesses, then kept running.

Selected work

Photography

And I go looking for the light.

Ridgelines mostly, granite to rainforest — alpine starts, long descents, and whatever light the day gave me. Same attention, different instrument.

Series

02 / Selected work

Projects

A selection of recent work across systems, tooling, and the web.

Lead project

Salesforce Record Import Tool

A full-stack web app that replaced manual vlookup-based data imports into Salesforce — OAuth for access control, matching algorithms to resolve emails to ContactIDs and websites to AccountIDs, a user review step before commit, and BigQuery for persistent audit logging.

Completednode.js · react · typescript · salesforce
  1. 02

    Salesforce Org Separation

    Split a combined Salesforce org into two fully independent instances when one company became two — separating accounts, contacts, opportunities, campaigns, custom objects, automations, and third-party integrations without data loss.

    salesforce · data-migration · org-management · metadata

    completed
  2. 03

    Agentic Salesforce Deployment Framework

    Built a repeatable, AI-assisted deployment system using Antigravity and Claude to manage Salesforce metadata changes — replacing ad hoc change sets with a structured review and security-gated deployment pipeline.

    salesforce · claude · antigravity · devops · automation

    active
  3. 04

    Sales Pipeline Re-Architecture

    Redesigned HeadLight's Salesforce sales process from scratch to support a tripling sales team — rebuilding opportunity stages, reports, dashboards, and data entry standards to give leadership reliable pipeline visibility for the first time.

    salesforce · sales-operations · reports-dashboards · process-design

    completed

03 / Photography

The other half

Ridgelines mostly, granite to rainforest — carried up on foot, shot in available light.

mt whitney 2024
annual campout 2026
waihee ridge trail 2026

04 / Writing

Latest posts

Notes on engineering, tooling, and whatever I've been nerding out on.

  1. Building a Portfolio with MDX and the App Router

    Why I render every page from flat MDX files — and how the content pipeline stays boring on purpose.

    engineering · next.js · typescript

    2 min read

  2. Synthesizing UI Sounds with the Web Audio API

    Zero audio files, a few oscillators, and a sound design budget of about forty lines of code.

    web-audio · typescript · design

    2 min read

05 / Experience

Where I've worked

The professional throughline behind the side projects.

  1. Feb 2023 — Jun 2026

    Salesforce Consultant · Links Technologies

    Supported Builder's Vision through a company split and expansion: separated and migrated their Salesforce orgs, documented processes for the incoming team, and built an agentic deployment framework with Antigravity and Claude.

    salesforceflowprocess-documentationclaude

  2. Aug 2021 — Aug 2022

    Senior Salesforce Administrator · Pushpay Inc

    Joined an established team as a senior administrator — facilitated deployment meetings to protect dependent teams from breaking changes, and helped translate extensive Workflow Rules and Process Builder automations to Flow ahead of their deprecation.

    salesforceflowprocess-builderworkflow-rules

  3. Jan 2017 — May 2021

    Business Systems Analyst & Salesforce Administrator · HeadLight, Inc.

    Promoted to focus exclusively on system optimization — briefed the executive team on findings and implemented 100% of proposed solutions, and re-engineered Salesforce workflows to support a sales team that tripled in size within a year.

    salesforceworkflowprocess-optimization

  4. Apr 2016 — Jan 2017

    IT Manager & CSM · HeadLight, Inc.

    Managed hardware, software, and network operations while supporting SaaS client onboarding — designed training decks, workshop materials, and QRGs, and implemented an MDM system to manage 800+ Apple devices.

    it-managementmdmcustomer-successsaas

  5. Apr 2015 — Apr 2016

    Customer Support Analyst · HeadLight, Inc.

    Employee #6, responsible for taking calls and responding to inbound customer request for a software deployments with State DOTs. Inherited a functioning ZenDesk platform, rebuilt it in Service Cloud to integrate with Sales team.

    it-managementmdmcustomer-successsaas

  6. Jan 2014 — Feb 2015

    Help Desk Technician · Service Communications, Inc.

    Provided first-line support for a voice, data, fiber, and wireless infrastructure firm — managed customer tickets and inventory in Great Plains, and configured a Spiceworks deployment for internal issue tracking.

    help-deskspiceworksit-support

06 / Contact

Let's build something

Have a project, a question, or just want to say hi? Send a note or find me around the web.

hello@rainboldtech.com
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