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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.

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Tutorials

Building CI/CD pipelines using dynamic config

Apr 27, 2021 6 min read

Tutorials

Managing CI/CD pipelines with Arm compute resource classes

Mar 30, 2021 6 min read

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Operations

Managing reusable pipeline configuration with object parameters

Feb 23, 2021 8 min read

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Tutorials

Run private cloud and on-premises jobs with CircleCI runner

Feb 22, 2021 13 min read

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Engineering Productivity

CircleCI vs Shippable configuration: comparing build elements

Feb 16, 2021 3 min read

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Operations

How to be a CI/CD Engineer

Dec 3, 2020 12 min read

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Tutorials

Tips for optimizing Docker builds

Oct 29, 2020 8 min read

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Tutorials

Building Docker images for multiple operating system architectures

Oct 25, 2020 8 min read

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Tutorials

Local CI pipeline development

Sep 20, 2020 12 min read

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Tutorials

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

Jul 29, 2020 13 min read

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Tutorials

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

Jul 28, 2020 9 min read

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Tutorials

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

Jul 28, 2020 16 min read

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Tutorials

How do I use Infrastructure as Code?

May 13, 2020 10 min read

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Tutorials

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

Apr 23, 2020 11 min read

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Tutorials

Smoke testing in CI/CD pipelines

Feb 13, 2020 8 min read

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Tutorials

Continuous integration with the Google Cloud Run orb

Nov 27, 2019 6 min read

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Tutorials

Adding application and image scans to your CI/CD pipeline

Oct 25, 2019 9 min read

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Operations

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

Sep 6, 2019 11 min read

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Tutorials

Automate releases from your pipelines using Infrastructure as Code

Jul 24, 2019 8 min read

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Tutorials

Debugging CI/CD pipelines with SSH access

Apr 11, 2019 7 min read

Engineering Productivity

CircleCI vs Travis CI configuration: comparing build elements

Jan 24, 2019 2 min read

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Tutorials

Building CI/CD pipelines using the CircleCI AWS ECR Orb

Dec 20, 2018 5 min read

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Tutorials

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

Dec 13, 2018 5 min read

Engineering

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

Jun 5, 2018 7 min read