Experience Cloud & mission-driven platforms
Designed, built, and improved Salesforce portal experiences involving donor and constituent workflows, grants, search, authentication, integrations, and complex business rules.
About Cherry Alley
Senior Salesforce expertise, directly from the person doing the work.
Cherry Alley Advisors is an independent Salesforce consulting practice founded by Skip Kleckner. Clients work directly with Skip on architecture, remediation, Experience Cloud, integrations, and meaningful Salesforce solution delivery.
Skip Kleckner
Founder & Salesforce Architect
Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I
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25+ years building software. 15 years focused on Salesforce.
Before Salesforce became my specialty, I spent years building enterprise software and web applications. That broader engineering background still shapes how I approach Salesforce today: understand the system, solve the real problem, and leave the implementation maintainable.
Over the last 15 years, my work has spanned Salesforce architecture, Apex, Lightning Web Components, Experience Cloud, integrations, automation, technical remediation, solution delivery, and developer enablement.
Selected experience
Across prior roles and consulting engagements, I have worked in Salesforce environments ranging from focused delivery teams to complex enterprise programs.
Architecture & engineering leadership
Led a 20-person Salesforce development organization while establishing a Center of Excellence, improving engineering practices, code review, mentoring, delivery consistency, and solution standards.
Remediation & reliability
Diagnosed and repaired complex Salesforce automation and integration problems, including an Experience Cloud identity synchronization process that reduced manual intervention by approximately 90%.
Cross-industry perspective
Delivered technology solutions across charitable giving, financial services, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, federal and state public-sector environments, disaster recovery, and other regulated or operationally complex organizations.
Architecture without handing the work off.
Cherry Alley is intentionally hands-on. I stay close to the requirements, architecture, code, integrations, documentation, and delivery decisions that determine whether a Salesforce solution will actually hold up over time.
Clients are not hiring a senior architect for the sales meeting and then being handed to a junior delivery team.
Why Cherry Alley?
Cherry Alley is named after a real neighborhood alley where families knew each other, kids grew up together, and relationships were built over time.
That idea is a good fit for how I want this business to work: earn trust, do practical work, communicate clearly, and become the person someone feels comfortable recommending to another organization.
Good Salesforce consulting should leave organizations more capable, not more dependent.
That means practical architecture, clear documentation, honest recommendations, and solutions your team can understand and maintain after the engagement ends.