Kik Minev

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Web developer playing with clouds, LAMP, Symfony, JavaScript. Currently working as a Salesforce developer as part of the Taylor & Hart team.
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Hey there, I'm Kik Minev - web developer playing with clouds, LAMP, Symfony, JavaScript, Salesforce Apex. Currently working as a Salesforce developer as part of the Taylor & Hart team.

Why Salesforce? Pivoted to Salesforce when my colleagues needed a quick and efficient way to optimize business processes, sales and even manufacturing processes. That’s how I stepped into the Salesforce world, though most of my career has been focused on web with PHP. Strong love for the Symfony framework.

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My experience

Taylor & Hart - Salesforce and Symfony developer

Currently working as a Salesforce developer at Taylor & Hart where I help with accelerating business processes in sales and manufacturing. I spend my day mostly writing Apex code and lightning components in Salesforce or PHP/Symfony for web features.

Oxxy - CTO

As part of Oxxy I was leading the team as a CTO. We started and shipped a drag and drop website builder that allows small business owners to launch a website without any coding skills. For my tasks I used the Symfony PHP framework, MongoDB, javascript for the web builder and AWS as an ifrastructure.

Webfactory - Web Developer

At Webfactory I spent my days mostly coding with PHP and Javascript. As part of a web agency I worked on various projects for different clients up until I started working on Protect Your Bubble. Really thankful to the colleagues that gave me the chance to work on this project and helped me develop my skills.

Webfactory / Protect Your Bubble - Team Lead

I became responsible for launching the US web site and lead a team of web developers to deliver and support the project. Duties were a bit different as I needed to work in Atlanta and lead the team overseas. Also, working with a Fortune 500 company has it's perks. Thank you all for the warm welcome in Atlanta!

Digitalus - Web Developer

Digitalus was a hosting company from The Netherlands(later aquired by another company). Here we worked with PHP and Javascript.

SiteGround

Epic times! Great start in the web industry.

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What I work with?

Back in the days I started coding websites from scratch using PHP and some custom frameworks. Throughout time I worked with ancient frameworks like CakePHP, Zend and others. Nowadays I mostly work with Symfony. Trying to keep an eye on the Javascript world as well.

PHP
Back in time I started with PHP from around version 4. Usually with Apache and MySQL. These days we run mostly nginx.
JavaScript
The beginings was vanilla and jQuery. Later I worked with Backbone and Angular. Now I try to keep in touch mostly with the React framework.
Symfony
I love how robost Symfony is. The initial steep learning curve is paying off with the projects. During the years I've worked with Symfony for SaaS products, CMS and eCommerce systems.
AWS
My experience with the cloud is in AWS where I mostly use EC2 and S3. I also have some experience with RDS for PostgreSQL. During the years I used EC2 to scale Symfony web projects and MongoDB cluster databases.
Git
Git is what I use for version control. Checkout my GitHub. I use Gitflow in my day to day work.
Docker
For personnal projects I will use Docker to maintain my developement environment. In some companies we also worked remotely, in the cloud. In other companies even with k9s on localhost. Depends on the company;)
Salesforce Apex
In Salesforce I usually work with Apex code to develop new features. It shares the Java syntax and object-oriented features, but it's limited by the Salesforce environment.
Ligning Components
Not very often I develop lighning components to extend the Salesforce functionality.
PhpStorm
Though I started with Notepad, moved to Notepad++, Vim, Eclipse, these days I work with PhpStorm and IntelliJ with Illuninated Cloud for Salesforce development.

Agentforce for Developers: Building the Next Generation of AI Agents for Small Business

From Assistive to Agentic: Salesforce’s Agentforce for Small Business

In the world of Salesforce, the leap from “assistive AI” to “agentic AI” is no longer just a trend—it’s the new standard. With the recent announcement of Agentforce for Small Business, Salesforce is bringing its most advanced autonomous AI capabilities into accessible suites for smaller organizations.

For developers, this marks a shift in how we build on the platform. We are moving away from building simple chatbots and toward architecting autonomous agents that can reason, take action, and handle complex business workflows independently.

From Copilot to Agentforce: What’s the Difference?

Earlier iterations of Salesforce AI, like Einstein Copilot, were largely reactive—waiting for a user to ask a question and providing a response. Agentforce, by contrast, is proactive.

An agent doesn’t just answer, “What is the status of this case?” It can be configured to:

Detect a new case

Analyze the sentiment

Search the knowledge base

Draft a response

Resolve the case by triggering a Flow or an Apex action

All of this happens without a human clicking a single button.

The Developer’s Toolkit: How to Build an Agent

Building an Agentforce agent for a small business isn’t just about prompt engineering; it’s about defining the logic and boundaries of its autonomy. Here are the core components developers need to master:

Topics and Instructions
Define the “Topic,” which is the scope of the agent’s work, and provide natural language instructions. This tells the agent how to behave, what tone to use, and what its primary goals are.

Actions (The “Hands” of the Agent)
This is where the real power lies. Developers can expose existing Salesforce Flows, Apex classes, or Prompt Templates as actions. If an agent needs to check inventory or update a lead’s status, it uses the action you’ve built to interact with the database.

Guardrails
For small businesses, trust is everything. Developers must configure guardrails to ensure the AI doesn’t hallucinate or access data it shouldn’t. This is managed through the Einstein Trust Layer, but fine-tuning the instructions is critical for reliable performance.

Why This Matters for Small Businesses

Traditionally, complex automation was the domain of large enterprises with massive development teams. Agentforce levels the playing field.

A small shop with just a few employees can now have:

A Service Agent that handles 24/7 customer support

A Sales Agent that qualifies leads overnight

By integrating these tools directly into Salesforce Starter and Pro Suites, the barrier to entry has essentially vanished.

The Future is Agentic

As developers, our role is evolving. We are becoming “Agent Orchestrators.” Instead of writing every line of a step-by-step process, we are building the capabilities—the Flows, the Apex, the Data structures—and then teaching an agent how to use those capabilities to solve problems.

If you haven’t started experimenting with Agentforce in a sandbox or developer org yet, now is the time. The agentic era is here, and it’s transforming small business operations one action at a time.

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