Naveen R

Joined in Feb 2022 on an AEM 6.3 product platform and led the migration path through AEM 6.5 to AEM as a Cloud Service.

• ›Led the AEM 6.3 → 6.5 migration in 2023 and the AEM 6.5 → Cloud Service migration in 2024.
• ›Refactored components and templates, authored Sling Models and HTL, and built shared component libraries for AEM teams.
• ›Improved developer workflows with CI integration, performance tuning, observability, and migration runbooks.
• ›Served as technical lead in 2025 on a headless AEM + Next.js commerce delivery, coordinating frontend and backend teams.

Delivered AEM 6.3 component and template development with a strong focus on reusable patterns and authoring experience.

• ›Built AEM 6.3 components, templates, Sling Models, HTL (Sightly), and content.xml authoring.
• ›Designed authoring dialogs and multifield experiences for rich editor interactions.
• ›Implemented template structures, policies, and client libraries for consistent rendering across author and publish environments.
• ›Integrated AEM authoring workflows with backend/frontend release handoff and performance validation.

Delivered tools and processes that reduced deployment time and standardized AEM component development.

• ›Built a frontend-only deployment pipeline during a hackathon, reducing AEM full-stack deployment time from ~3–4 hours to ~20 minutes by deploying only changed frontend assets.
• ›Won two internal hackathon prizes for deployment automation and developer productivity improvements.
• ›Created a component generator tool that scaffolds content.xml, Sling Models, HTL, and JUnit boilerplate from a single form.
• ›Standardized component creation and reduced manual development overhead across projects.