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  Ghanendra Singh  wins Sitecore Most Valuable Professional award Elite distinction awarded for commitment and dedication to the Sitecore community   Noida, India — February 09, 2024 ::  Ghanendra Singh, Senior Sitecore Engineer  at Crowe Horwath IT Services LLP has been named a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Technology category  by Sitecore ® , a global leader in end-to-end digital experience management software. Ghanendra Singh  was one of only 147 Technology MVPs worldwide to be named a Sitecore MVP this year. Now in its 18 th year, the MVP program recognizes professionals who actively share their knowledge and expertise with online and offline Sitecore communities to help them best utilize Sitecore products to deliver premier customer experiences. Selected from more than 16,000 certified developers and over 30,000 active community participants, the 247 MVPs are truly an elite group. This year’s MVPs were selected by a panel of Sitecore employees – ranging from d

Hello!! This year started with a bang for me as I got my first Sitecore MVP title. This year, I have mostly worked on Sitecore 10.1.1 as part of IT team of an accounting services organization. Due to my nature of work, I dont have exposure to different projects exploring variety of new Sitecore tools and technologies (like my other fellow MVPs have), but I have used this year to upgrade my learning and dig deeper into Sitecore XP on which I primarily work. Below are my contributions this year -  Sitecore Blogs Below are the links to all my blogs which I have published in year 2022 on Sitecore.  https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2023/02/experience-of-first-time-sitecore-mvp.html https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2023/02/make-sitecore-instance-faster-using.html https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2023/03/solr-search-facet-values-limited-to-100.html https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2023/06/testing-sitecore-with-selenium-nunit.html https://ghanendras.blogspot.com/2023/08/animated-gif-files-become-n

Recently, I had the honor of being awarded the Sitecore MVP award for Technology in 2023. I wrote about my experience here  and promised that I will keep sharing about my learnings from the program. So, here are some insights from Sitecore MVP Kickoff webinar. The webinar basically outlines what MVP program is about. There were presentations about the roadmap for Sitecore in 2023, little bit description about different tools Sitecore is comprised of now and then some presentations from community expert Tamas Varga, Peter Brinkmann etc. where they talked about MVP program and how they can help MVPs with works related to Sitecore. Some key interesting points I learnt and that I can share with you guys are below -  What do people do to become eligible for MVP award? Below is the list of contributions that Sitecore MVPs usually make over the year- What are the benefits of being a Sitecore MVP? One of the main questions that got answered was what are the benefits of being a Sitecore MVP and

The Journey I have been working in Sitecore for almost 10 years now. When I was a beginner in Sitecore, I was highly impressed by the incredible community support. In fact, my initial Sitecore learning path was entirely based on community written blogs on Sitecore. During a discussion with my then technology lead Neeraj Gulia , he proposed the idea that I should start giving back to developer community whenever I get chance. Just like I have been helped by many developers via online blogs, stackoverflow etc., I should also try to help others. Fast forward a few years and I met  Nehemiah Jeyakumar  (now an MVP). He had a big archive of his technical notes in the form Sitecore blogs. I realized my first blog dont have to be perfect and it can be as simple as notes to a specific problem for reference in future. That's when I probably created my first blog post on Sitecore. At that time, I didn't knew about the Sitecore MVP program. Over the years, I gained more confidence to write