Saman Attar is a Trailblazer

Saman Attar's Salesforce journey started with a conversation he almost didn't have. As a Software Engineering undergraduate at the University of Texas at Dallas, he stopped by a campus career fair and ended up talking to a USAA recruiter about a 10-week Salesforce-adjacent internship. Coming from a background in Python and .NET, Salesforce was unfamiliar territory - but Saman embraced the challenge. That decision set everything in motion.

After accepting a full-time return offer at USAA, Saman eventually led a team of developers building essential solutions. In 2025, he joined F5, a cybersecurity company, as a Senior Software Engineer, where he now helps build and deliver Sales and Partner capabilities using Salesforce.

Even as his day job evolved, Saman never stopped thinking about the people who were just getting started. In 2022, he launched CampApex.org - a free platform built around hands on, bite-sized lessons for beginners with zero coding background. It grew fast, reaching thousands of Trailblazers and expanding through partnerships with community groups including Women in Technology in Austin.

In 2026, Saman expanded the family with CampLWC.org - a free course designed to bridge the gap between Screen Flows (something admins already know) and Lightning Web Components. His first course, "Screen Flow to LWC," helps admins see just how transferable their existing skills are - and builds the confidence to keep going. Both platforms are completely free.

At F5 and in his community work, Saman has gone deep on the Headless, Agentic side of Salesforce development - and what he's built is genuinely cutting-edge. He runs an autonomous development loop where a coding agent writes tests first, implements them, and executes a full CI signal - Apex, Jest, Selenium, and mutation testing - looping and fixing until everything is green. He also co-contributed to the first open-source Mutation Testing library for Salesforce, which lets developers prove their Apex unit tests can actually catch bugs.

The real secret weapon? Custom SKILL.md files. Saman has built files that encode his org's conventions, letting him manage metadata - permission sets, dynamic forms, object fields, page layouts - entirely through a conversation with his coding agent. Configuration that once took an hour now takes minutes.