martin miles

Reviewing all my Sitecore MVP contributions for 2025

Please read this first! This blog post lists all of my Sitecore MVP contributions done since December 1, 2024 with the breakdowns by categories.

Agentic AI Challenge

Participated and won the 2nd place (of 150 submissions) in Agentic AI Challenge - where I built a Generative Engine Optimization Marketplace App. The idea and representation belong to my colleague Vasiliy Fomichev, while the implementation was done by me. The attached link is the recording of thу award ceremony at Sym 2025

Los Angeles Sitecore User Groups

Organized two Los Angeles Sitecore User Groups (#22 and #23). This user group has ~500 members.

SitecoreAI XM Cloud Daily series

With my dedication to Sitecore's new flagship product, XM Cloud, it was no surprise that I just launched a new XM Cloud Daily series of tips and tricks on social media, which has since evolved into SitecoreAI Daily.

Every day, I post useful tips and tricks about new Sitecore cloud offerings on Twitter/X and LinkedIn. The link below is an example of such a posting for a specific date.

GitHub

There are plenty of repositories among my contributions that are still meaningful and helpful. Not just repositories I share on GitHub, but also plenty of useful gists. I keep the Awesome Sitecore project up-to-date. This repository has plenty of stars on GitHub and is an integral part of the big Awesome Lists family.

Sitecore Telegram

I am making Telegram a premium-level channel for delivering Sitecore news and materials. Telegram offers a unique set of features that no other software can, and I am leveraging these advantages to provide greater convenience to my subscribers. Started in 2017 as a single channel, it has expanded rapidly and reached 1,100 subscribers! Growth did not stop; it escalated further beyond Sitecore, becoming composable with a dedicated channel for almost any composable product.

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List of my 2024 Sitecore contributions

Please read this post first as it explains and classifies my contributions in a wider and more understandable format

All my blog posts at my own website

Contains my blog posts published at Perficient blogging website, reverse chronologically. That includes a 6-post long Crash Course to Next.Js with TypeScript and GraphQL where I progressively explain and teach new development paradigms.

Awesome Sitecore

I keep Awesome Sitecore project up and actual. This repository has plenty of stars on GitHub and it brings Sitecore as an integral part of a big Awesome Lists family (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

Virtual Sitecore Headless Development User Group #10

Organized and hosted Virtual Sitecore Headless Development User Group #10

Los Angeles Sitecore User Group #20

Organized Los Angeles Sitecore User Group #20

Virtual Sitecore Headless Development User Group #8

Organized and hosted Virtual Sitecore Headless Development User Group #8

Los Angeles Sitecore User Group #19

Organized Los Angeles Sitecore User Group #19

Virtual Sitecore Headless Development User Group #5

Organized and hosted Virtual Sitecore Headless Development User Group #5

Virtual Sitecore Headless Development User Group #4

Organized and hosted Virtual Sitecore Headless Development User Group #4

All my 2023 Sitecore MVP contributions in one list

PLEASE READ THIS BLOG POST FIRST! It lists all my contributions in an easy classified and bullet format. I have so many contributions that it was not possible to put it all here, for example 45(!) blog posts, etc. Hope you get it with understanding and open/read this link first prior to progressing with my application. Thank you!

Some additional blog posts in my own blog

I mostly moved from my blog to my employer's blog at Perficient as being a Sitecore Technology Director I am involved and am in charge of Sitecore Practice. I plan to copy all the posts from Perficient to me blog as well, once get a time to it.

Sitecore Telegram

Contributed to it even more than in any of the previous years, I am making Telegram a premium-level channel for delivering Sitecore news and materials. Telegram has a unique set of features that no other software can offer, and I am leveraging these advantages for more convenience to my subscribers. Started in 2017 as a single channel, it was expanding rapidly and now reached a milestone of 1,000 subscribers! Growth did not stop but escalated further beyond Sitecore going composable with havin...

https://www.meetup.com/sitecore-headless-development-usergroup/

Established a organized the mostly wanted user group of a year – Sitecore Headless Development User Group. This one is very special since headless development has become the new normal of delivering sites with Sitecore, while so many professionals feel left behind unable to catch up with the fast emerging tech. I put it as my personal mission to help the community learn and grow “headlessly” and that is one of my commitments to it.

There were two events so far (#1 and #2) with a #3 scheduled...

SUGCON NA

I was a proud member of the SUGCON NA 2023 Organization Committee, which we thought over the past 15 months. We collectively were responsible for a wide range of tasks, but my primary personal responsibilities were organizing the session recording, building the event website, choosing the speakers from the speech proposals for building the agenda, and several more. I served as Room Captain for each and every session timeslot on Thursday and the majority on Friday.

Sifon

Sifon project keeps going not just maintained but also receiving new features. Sifon gets support for each version of XM/XP releases almost the next day. I am also PoC a composable version of Sifon Cloud, if proven that would be a big thing for XM Cloud. Every time I am involved in a Sitecore platform upgrade or any other development or PoCs working outside of containers – Sifon saves me a lot of time and effort. GitHub: https://github.com/MartinMiles/Sifon

SUGCON Europe talk: "Accelerate Headless SXA Builds with XM Cloud"

Everyone knows how I love these conferences, especially SUGCON Europe. This year I submitted my speech papers again and got chosen again with the topic Accelerate Headless SXA Builds with XM Cloud. Last year I hit the same stage with The Ultimate Sitecore Upgrade session.

Sitecore Mentor Program

• With lessons learned from the previous year of mentorship, this time I got 5 mentees, all young, ambitious, and genius and I cannot stress out enough how I am proud of them all and their achievements!
• 3 of them found their way to SUGCON conferences as speakers!
• The others still deliver valuable contributions to the community.

MVP Program activities & contributions

• I participate in all the webinars and MVP Lunches (often in both timezones per event) I can only reach out.
• Every past year, I have participated in a very honorable activity helping to review the first-time applicants for the MVP Program. This is the first line of the evaluation and we carefully match every first-time applicant against high Sitecore MVP standards.
• I think MVP Summit is the best perk of the MVP Program, so never miss it out. This year I’ve learned so much and provided fee...