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.

Category: AI Web Development

Claude in Salesforce via MCP – The Good and the Gotchas

I connected Claude directly to a Salesforce org using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It took an afternoon to set up and it immediately changed how I think about what AI can do inside a CRM.

Why I wanted to do it

Salesforce is where business data lives — leads, accounts, opportunities, activities. Claude is where reasoning happens. Connecting the two means you can ask plain English questions and get answers grounded in real data, draft follow-up emails with full context, summarise account history before a call, or build reports without touching SOQL. The MCP integration makes Claude an active participant in your Salesforce workflow, not just a chatbot you switch to in another tab. Continue reading “Claude in Salesforce via MCP – The Good and the Gotchas”

My AI software development setup

How I’ve been using AI on a side project as a playground

A side project with mobile app built in Flutter with a companion website. I try to keep it simple with some resources hosted in S3. Nothing too unusual. But for the past few weeks I’ve been using it as a playground to explore AI-assisted development – not just using AI, but really leaning into it to see how far it goes.

I’m not writing any code at all. I simply communicate with the agent in broken English. I don’t even try to be specific or technical – I just describe what I want to see in a sentence. The results are mindblowing.
Continue reading “My AI software development setup”

The bright sight of AI software development

At this point, it’s clear: we are all going to die.

Or at least our jobs are and we are going to be unemployed and best case scenario is to try to requalify. The planet might follow. AI is eating electricity, water, and entire professions. Our kids will probably grow up in some anti-utopia, picking between different flavors of broken futures. Huxley or Gibson – will see. Choose your anti-utopia.

Good times. Continue reading “The bright sight of AI software 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. Continue reading “Agentforce for Developers: Building the Next Generation of AI Agents for Small Business”

JetBrains AI for Salesforce – the basic way to start using AI for Salesforce

If you use IntelliJ with Illuminated Cloud, you’re already doing the heavy lifting. Adding the AI Assistant just makes the boring parts of Salesforce dev move faster. It’s basically a specialized search engine that lives in your sidebar. Continue reading “JetBrains AI for Salesforce – the basic way to start using AI for Salesforce”