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Dan Solovay

United States

MVP 2026

Technology

United States
MVP 2025

Technology

United States
MVP 2024

Technology

United States
MVP 2023

Technology

United States
MVP 2022

Technology

United States
MVP 2021

Technology

United States
MVP 2020

Technology

United States
MVP 2019

Technology

United States
MVP 2018

Technology

United States
MVP 2017

Technology

United States
MVP 2016

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MVP 2015

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MVP 2014

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MVP 2013

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United States

Timeline

2025

28/Nov

Managing Shared Field Updates

A blog post discussing details of shared field updates, and how to avoid CD downtime.

Sitecore XM

2025

28/Nov

Errata feedback on Order Cloud for Developers course

I sent the global training team feedback on the Order Cloud for developers course, noting stale links, typos, and walkthrough sequencing issues.

Sitecore OrderCloud

2025

20/Oct

Shared field update write up

Lengthy Stack Exchange post on how shared field updates work

Sitecore XP

2025

7/Oct

Fixed broken link in Content-SDK docs

Github was pointing to JSS instead of Content-SDK link. PR to fix.

2025

1/Oct

Item REST API not handling language fallback correctly

Items without language fallback were falling back instead of returning 404s. Acknowledged as PDXP-18183.

Sitecore XP

2025

22/Sep

A Content-SDK Upgrade Gotcha

Discussed a challenge I ran into installing 1.0.0 of the Content-SDK, and how to work around it. I also shared this feedback with the project team.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

19/Sep

IsPageEditor failing in incognito mode

JSS-8064 opened to record the behavior.

Sitecore JSS

2025

8/Sep

Bug: GraphQL does not support Standard Values in some queries

DEVEX-5355 opened.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

26/Aug

Support permalinks in Sitecore Support bug tracker

I requested permalinks for bugs, and this was implemented. See CS0612183.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

13/Aug

Documentation request for external components

No documentation on how to remove external components. Acknowledged by Sitecore Support: "After reviewing the documentation, we found that some related information is not currently documented. We have notified our documentation team about this gap. Thank you for bringing it to our attention." (CS0613965)

2025

4/Aug

Feature request: Revert to IAR

PGS-5271: Add revert to IAR to Developer ribbon

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

28/Jul

Feature request: time zone support in Pages

PGS-2262: Forcing authors to use UTC leads to confusing experiences. Requesting local time zone be respected, as is the case for Content Editor.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

27/Jul

Sitecore Pages and Time Zones

An article discussing some of the challenges caused by Page Builder's exclusive use of UTC. Analysis also shared with Sitecore as a feature request.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

6/Jul

Bug report: Display name not respected

PGS-5022. Pages does not respect Display Name when adding managed items

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

21/Apr

XM Cloud Takes Off at SUGCON Antwerp

Analysis of developments and direction shown at SUGCON Antwerp conference, focusing on Marketplace, Content SDK, Design Library, and the Content Service sneak peak.

2025

19/Mar

Extending Content Hub with Azure Functions (User group talk)

In person user group session. Spoke on how Azure Functions can support Content Hub customizations, and steps to take to run large updates at scale.

Sitecore Content Hub

2025

7/Mar

Sitecore Hackathon-Team DED

I participated in the 2025 Sitecore Hackathon, working with Erica Stockwell-Alpert and Dylan Young on a first effort to build Erica's Content Export tool as a XM Cloud marketplace app. Although we did not win, we completed our entry. This later grew into a symposium talk for Erica, and one of the first public marketplace apps.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

22/Feb

A hidden feature of Solr-Init

Unearthed a nice little feature in Sitecore's docker scripts: an undocumented flag that allows adding new indexes without clearing existing ones.

2025

10/Feb

Documentation feedback: Error in bulk extract example code

MDOC-5379. Example code, with cursor set on created on value, can lead to items being skipped.

Sitecore Content Hub

2025

3/Feb

Feature request: Support setting headers from variables

FRM-2166. This would simplify support for multiple API endpoints across environments.

Sitecore Content Hub

2025

7/Jan

Feature request: Support source maps with external components

FRM-2294. Be able to deploy source maps with external page components in Content Hub.

Sitecore Content Hub

2024

30/Apr

Side by Side Docker Configuration

To research my 10.4 blog post, I wanted a way to run 10.3 and 10.4 side by side in a single docker compose environment, and used this addition to the Docker Examples repo to do this. I shared this with the Sitecore Lunch group and Sitecore Slack communities so that other developers wishing to do side-by-side explorations could do so.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2024

12/Apr

SUGCON EU: 15 Configuration Tips in 15 Minutes

A tour of the mechanics of Sitecore configuration and the workings of the Factory class, and useful tools for working with configuration (e.g. layers and rules functionality in ShowConfig). I had several people tell me they learned "one new thing" from the talk, but the thing was different for each attendee. E.G. Corey Smith told me the RBC support in Show Config was new to him.

This was a reasonably successful effort to take my own esoteric obsessions and make them useful for other people....

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2024

27/Mar

NESUG: Configuration Secrets

User group presentation on Sitecore configuration, a warm up for my SUGCON EU talk.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2023

7/Feb

Velir blog post on Graph QL and Webhooks

Fairly detailed write up of my learings on webhooks and GraphQL (connected with March 2023 SUG talk)

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2022

25/Nov

MVP mentoring at Velir

Per Tamas's recommendation, I wrote an email detailing my experiences mentoring MVPs at Velir. This is a confidential memo to Sitecore that goes into a lot of detail about my experiences here, both in fostering a culture of community engagement, and specific tactical advice I've given.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP