These are not unicorns, mind you. They are personal passion projects that I do for pure enjoyment and to keep my skills sharp.
Hello! My full name is Armando Quetzalcoatl Sosa Garay, but my friends just call me Armando. All three of them.
I'm a small Mexican dude who has been doing internet stuff for what feels like an eternity. I used to be a graphic designer but, fun fact: that's the worst paid profession in Mexico, so I pivoted to programming and I've been doing a lot better.
When I am not in front of a computer you may find me attending church, playing music, or just hanging out with my wonderful wife.
I am a type-2 diabetic, which sucks because eating is my favorite hobby. Look, it's not my
fault that I live in the country with the best food in the world universe.
I've been working as a remote front-end engineer since 2009 for companies in New York, San Francisco, and Colombia. Currently I am employed by Jiveworld as a lead engineer.
If you want to know more, you can follow me on Twitter or send me an electronic letter to arm.sosa[at]gmail.com.
In the past year I made 1,683 contributions and wrote a lot of lines of code in JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML and PHP for projects built with React, Next.js, Vite, Astro, shadcn, Tailwind, MobX and XState — along with SVG tweaking, color tuning, video editing, Figma fiddling, DNS troubleshooting, server rebooting, database optimizing, and plenty more. In general, I've been a jack of all trades — just like I have been for the last 22 years.
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San Francisco Bay Area
Architected the company's frontend platform from the ground up, leading engineering for a production system that has evolved for over eight years while building custom rendering technology, AI-powered localization tooling, and a modern design system.
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San Francisco Bay Area
Owned both frontend engineering and product design, architecting the customer dashboard, internal tools, component systems, and deployment infrastructure for a fast-moving startup.
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Mentored portfolio startups on frontend architecture, product development, and engineering strategy while helping teams adopt React during its earliest years.
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Joined as an early engineer to help transform the original WordPress plugin into a venture-backed publishing platform, later building core advertising products and interactive creative tools used by major publishers.
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Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Led development of a WordPress plugin that transformed websites into native-feeling iPad experiences, laying the technical foundation for what became Onswipe.
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Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Designed branding, frontend architecture, and reusable templates for a social event platform.
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Designed and developed the second and third generations of cakephp.org, combining UI design with frontend engineering for one of the web's most influential PHP frameworks.
I release indie Christian music in Spanish under the name Inconforme — songs about surrender, hope, and learning to live like this world is not the whole story.
A prayer of surrender dressed in warm indie textures — for the slow work of giving every part back to God.
A reminder that the present weight is not the final word: everything temporary points past itself.
Cosmic language for a very personal hope: the love of God stretching farther than imagination can travel.
A spacious track about faith that reaches beyond the flat edges of what we can measure or explain.
A pilgrim song — carrying the tension of living here, but not belonging only here.
A collaborative Christmas release celebrating Emmanuel — God near, God with us.
