Alba Rivas
Principal Developer Advocate
Armilla, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolAlba Rivas is a Principal Developer Advocate at Salesforce with 11 years of experience building and evangelizing on the Salesforce platform, specializing in Lightning Web Components, Platform, AI, and Data Cloud. She blends deep hands-on engineering—evident from significant contributions to flagship sample apps like dreamhouse-lwc and lwc-recipes—with public-facing leadership running community events, conferences, and inclusive initiatives such as RAD Women and Dreamole. Formerly a Salesforce MVP and architecture lead at FinancialForce, she has guided migrations to Lightning Experience and authored a patent related to Salesforce Connect. Based in Andalusia, Spain, Alba brings a rare mix of research rigor (IEEE-published LTE work) and pragmatic product coaching, having taught LWC and Heroku to practitioners. Her work consistently emphasizes accessibility, mobile responsiveness, and security in developer samples, helping others adopt best practices while lowering barriers to entry.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate on R&D Management Information Technology, Postgraduate on R&D Management Information Technology at Universidad de GranadaErasmus year for my Master's degree on Telecommunications Engineering, Erasmus year for my Master's degree on Telecommunications Engineering at EPFL
Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (12)
accessibility10
javascript10
web-components10
mobile-development10
apex10
jestjs9
apidoc9
api9
ui-design8
devops7
css6
lwc6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
trailheadapps/dreamhouse-lwc
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Sample application for Lightning Web Components on Salesforce Platform. Part of the sample gallery. Real estate use case. Get inspired and learn best practices.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 44 commits, 268 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alba made substantial contributions to the Dreamhouse LWC application, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. They upgraded API versions, refactored components for mobile responsiveness, and improved sample data. Moreover, the user implemented security enhancements and incorporated new features like geolocation, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the Salesforce platform and LWC development.
salesforceweb-componentslightning-web-componentsapex
trailheadapps/lwc-recipes
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
A collection of easy-to-digest code examples for Lightning Web Components on Salesforce Platform
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 7 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alba primarily contributed to the user interface of the Lightning Web Components (LWC) recipes. Their work involved refactoring the error panel to adhere to SLDS (Salesforce Lightning Design System) styling, removing unnecessary code nesting, and adding CSS tweaks to improve the component's appearance across different sample applications. They also introduced a new recipe demonstrating the use of `generateRecordInputForCreate` and accessibility testing, indicating a focus on UI/UX best practices.
salesforceweb-componentslightning-web-componentsapexjest
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