MVP Profile

Marcel Gruber

Canada

MVP 2026

Technology

Canada

MVP 2025

Technology

Canada

MVP 2024

Technology

Canada

MVP 2023

Technology

Canada

I'm a Mentor

Well rounded skillset with a wholistic view of digital marketing; not just tech.

Timeline

2025

14/Nov

Building with CDP/Personalize on Next.js +XM/XP

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize

2025

11/Nov

A Quick Look at SitecoreAI 'Essentials Tier'

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

2/Nov

XM Vulnerability Exploit Attempts

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2025

2/Nov

Reflections Before Sitecore Symposium 2025

2025

25/Aug

How to Reduce the Size of Your Local SQL Databases on a Schedule

2025

14/Jul

Automated Front Tests with GitHub Actions & Playwright

2025

2/Jul

Handy PowerShell Script When Working With Text Fields

2025

19/Apr

Integrating Cloudflare Turnstile with Sitecore Forms

2025

10/Apr

Disable Sitecore Form Client-Side Validation in One Click

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2025

3/Mar

Considerations for Hosting Mail Signature Images on Vercel

2025

19/Feb

XM Cloud Page Builder Achieves Feature Parity with Experience Editor

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

11/Feb

How to Run Sitecore 10.3.x in Docker on Windows 10

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore JSS

2025

4/Jan

Strict vs. Flexible Code

2024

22/Dec

Implementation Tips: OneTrust GTM Tag and Custom Cookie Settings Button

My second most popular post in the last 365 days with 216 page views.

2024

30/Nov

Stack Overflow contributions throughout the year

Working with Sitecore involves so much more than what is in scope of SSE. I also contribute to Stack Overflow when I can.

Can also see entire summary of contributions across the entire Stack ecosystem: https://stackexchange.com/users/4995132/marcel-gruber

2024

30/Nov

Sitecore Stack Exchange contributions throughout the year

In the top 1% of users by reputation this year.

2024

30/Nov

Posts on Personal Blog throughout the year

11 blog posts:

https://sitecore.marcelgruber.ca/posts/block-bots-in-iis

https://sitecore.marcelgruber.ca/posts/boost-sif-cert-expiry-days

https://sitecore.marcelgruber.ca/posts/azure-paas-cache-optimization (featured in the April 2024 Sitecore Developer Newsletter)

https://sitecore.marcelgruber.ca/posts/httprequestvalidationexception-potentially-dangerous

https://sitecore.marcelgruber.ca/posts/your-sitecore-site-is-being-farmed-to-train-ai

https://sitecore.marcelgruber.ca/posts...

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2024

30/Nov

LinkedIn activity throughout the year

Low key engagement with Sitecore related posts when I see them; mostly around celebrating the successes of others.

2024

30/Nov

GitHub

"Various contributions to Sitecore related repositories.

https://github.com/Sitecore/Mvp.Selections.Api/pull/64 (Report an issue to Ivan Lieckens about issues with the MVP site facet counts and search results. Discuss potential solutions.)

https://github.com/spyn/tds2scs/pull/2

https://github.com/josephjlong/sitecore-serialisation-converter/pull/3

https://github.com/SitecorePowerShell/Book/pull/37

https://github.com/SitecorePowerShell/Book/pull/38

https://github.com/SitecorePow...

2023

31/Oct

Added RSS to Sitecore blog

Built RSS functionality on my blog site after speaking with Jim Petillo and sitecorejunkie about getting my blog added to the automatic feeds

2023

20/Jul

Created a public gist for a SPE script for item value restores after a database refresh

2022

1/Dec

Twitter activity throughout the year

A vibrant and SPICY Sitecore community is both essential and enjoyable. I don't sign on very often as it distracts me from work, but I do post links to my blog posts and interact with the community on occasion.

2022

1/Dec

Posts on Personal Blog

21 blog posts this year, ~10 of which were deeper technical dives. The blog is built on Next.js, of course.

You can see my 2023 review post here where I link to my best posts: https://sitecore.marcelgruber.ca/posts/year-in-review-2023

2022

26/May

Completed Sitecore Content Hub Administrator Certification and wrote a blog post

Content Hub is still new and I don't believe that people fully understand how significant it is. I want the community and customers to know why and how this tech is so transformative.

Sitecore Content Hub