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A board can lose confidence in 30 seconds if the CIO cannot say what the agents are doing. Slack published that humans and agents already talk there because search, memory, and Salesforce sit in the same thread. I run 200+ production agents. Salesforce Developers Blog ran the 2015 success story, named the Summer 2014 Force.com MVP class, recorded the 2012 Kochi user-group founding, and listed him among Winter 13 Cloud Trivia winners. sforce.ninja published his Winter 15 features guest post in September 2014. India Dreamin listed him as co-founder. David Liu's SFDC99 recap is the community record. Mason Frank published his 2017 Salesforce predictions. The CEO Magazine profiled Dazeworks in 2018. Brent Downey's Admin Hero Origins series ran in 2016. Amit Salesforce published a 2017 success interview. Tenth Revolution listed him among 30 bloggers to follow. PR Newswire recorded the CDLTO appointment on 5 August 2025, and a 29 April 2026 wire on a multi-year MuleSoft investment so Agent Fabric can orchestrate, govern, and observe the fleet. Entrepreneur One Super 30 is magazine recognition, not a Salesforce honor.
Agent governance
Board-level risk, and Slack as the place humans and agents already talk. I run 200+ production agents.
What are the agents doing?
A board can lose confidence in 30 seconds. All it takes is one question: what are our AI agents actually doing? If the CIO cannot answer, that is an immediate career risk.
Where humans and agents talk
Slack is the natural place for both human and digital workers because it brings together enterprise search, organizational memory, and integrations with Salesforce.
Salesforce record
Official Salesforce Developer Relations pages, community recaps, the 2014 sforce.ninja Winter 15 features post, and the 2017 Mason Frank predictions note.
Learning curve into a career
Official Developers Blog success story: from Apex at Groupon to founding Dazeworks, after the Summer 2014 Force.com MVP class.
Salesforce Developers Blog, 3 Jun 2015
Force.com MVP class of Summer 2014
Named in the Summer 2014 Force.com MVP class announcement.
Salesforce announcement, 28 Aug 2014
Favorite Winter '15 features
Guest post on sforce.ninja, 24 September 2014, as MVP Shivanath Devinarayanan from Force.com Unlimited. Duplicate alerts, Queueable Apex, Community Designer, Territory Management 2.0, and a wait element in trigger-ready flows.
Kochi Platform Developer User Group
Salesforce Developer Relations named him founding leader of the Kochi group on 25 July 2012. No 2012 session title is public.
Salesforce Developers Blog, 25 Jul 2012
Winter 13 Cloud Trivia winner
Named among the winners of the official @forcedotcom Winter 13 Cloud Trivia on the Salesforce Developers Blog, ahead of Dreamforce 12.
Salesforce Developers Blog, Sep 2012
Co-founder listing and SFDC99 recap
The founders and mentors page lists him as co-founder. David Liu thanks him and the Dazeworks team in the 4 October 2017 SFDC99 recap. No 2017 session title is public.
Salesforce predictions for 2017
Mason Frank asked global ecosystem voices for 2017 Salesforce predictions. His note covered Einstein after Dreamforce 16, Lightning adoption, and Salesforce IoT with Amazon AWS.
Companies
Appointment, acquisition, and MuleSoft investment coverage, including the CDLTO appointment and the iLink majority stake.
CDLTO appointment
Shivanath Devinarayanan has joined as Chief Digital Labor and Technology Officer. Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame. Former CEO of a global Salesforce consultancy partner.
MuleSoft investment for digital labor
Sustainable growth of a digital workforce depends on the ability to orchestrate, govern, and observe every agent in production. Asymbl announced a multi-year MuleSoft agreement so Agent Fabric is the orchestration, governance, and observability foundation for the fleet.
iLink majority stake
Our relationship with iLink Digital is the latest and the biggest yet. Our conversations with iLink stemmed from the remarkable synergies between the company DNAs, company cultures, and leadership values.
Magazine
Magazine and listicle recognition, labeled as such. Entrepreneur One Super 30 is a cover profile, not a Salesforce honor.
Super 30 Visionary Leaders
June 2025 cover profile. Named to Entrepreneur One Super 30 Visionary Leaders to Watch in 2025. Magazine recognition, not a Salesforce honor.
Dazeworks founder profile
The CEO Magazine wrote about Shivanath Devinarayanan and Dazeworks as a pure-play Salesforce consulting company, from teaching himself Apex through Groupon and the 2015 founding.
30 Salesforce bloggers to follow
Listed among 30 Salesforce bloggers to follow. Named as Salesforce MVP, India Dreamin co-founder, and then CEO of Dazeworks.
Profiles
Founder interviews and community write-ups from Admin Hero, Amit Salesforce, and the ReadyTalk study group.
Origins: founder story
Brent Downey published ORIGINS: The Story of Shivanath Devinarayanan. First job as an ASP.NET intern at Suyati in Kochi, Salesforce over C#, then Dazeworks.
Success story interview
January 2017 interview as CEO and Technical Architect at Dazeworks. He started the Kerala Developer User Group and, while at Groupon, the Chennai group.
ReadyTalk certification study group
Deepa Patel's 12 December 2014 Pulse article on the ReadyTalk-sponsored Salesforce Certification Study Group includes his LinkedIn profile among the volunteer session leaders.
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