Angel Rivera
Developer Advocate, CircleCI
Angel started his career as an US Air Force Space Systems Operations specialist in Cape Canaveral AF Station where he realized his passion for technology and software development. He has extensive experience in the private, public, and military sectors. His technical experience includes military/space lift operations, technical writing, software development, and SRE/DevOPs engineering. He also has a wealth of experience in defense and federal sectors such as contracting, information systems, security, and management.
You can find him speaking at or organizing local tech meetups and hackathons where he enjoys engaging with developers.
Angel’s passions are positive disruption, learning, teaching, and mentoring. But most of all, he enjoys inspiring all forms of technologists and building awesome tech communities. When he’s not working with the developer community, he enjoys smoking all types of food: meats, fish, cheeses, and desserts.

Building CI/CD pipelines using dynamic config

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Managing CI/CD pipelines with Arm compute resource classes

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Managing reusable pipeline configuration with object parameters

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Run private cloud and on-premises jobs with CircleCI runner

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CircleCI vs Shippable configuration: comparing build elements

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How to be a CI/CD Engineer

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Tips for optimizing Docker builds

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Building Docker images for multiple operating system architectures

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Local CI pipeline development

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Infrastructure as Code, part 3: automate Kubernetes deployments with CI/CD and Terraform

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Infrastructure as Code, part 1: create a Kubernetes cluster with Terraform

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Infrastructure as Code, part 2: build Docker images and deploy to Kubernetes with Terraform

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How do I use Infrastructure as Code?

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Docker and CI/CD tutorial: a deep dive into containers

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Smoke testing in CI/CD pipelines

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Continuous integration with the Google Cloud Run orb

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Adding application and image scans to your CI/CD pipeline

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DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer: How this one principle changed my career

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Automate releases from your pipelines using Infrastructure as Code

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Debugging CI/CD pipelines with SSH access

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CircleCI vs Travis CI configuration: comparing build elements

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Building CI/CD pipelines using the CircleCI AWS ECR Orb

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Deploy applications using CircleCI, Docker, HashiCorp Terraform, and Google Cloud

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Minimize Risk Using the Principle of Least Privilege and AWS IAM Permissions

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