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's been doing internet stuff for what feels like an eternity. I started out as a graphic designer — fun fact: it's one of the worst-paid professions in Mexico, which is a big part of why I eventually pivoted into programming.
I've been a remote frontend engineer since 2009, working with companies in New York, San Francisco, and Colombia. These days I'm Tech Lead at Jiveworld, where I've spent the last eight years architecting the frontend platform — building everything from a custom rendering engine to AI-powered localization tooling and the design system that ties it all together.
When I'm not at a keyboard, you'll find me at church, playing music, or hanging out with my
wonderful wife. And eating — eating is basically a competitive sport for me at this point,
and honestly, it's not my fault I live in the country with the best food in the
world universe.
If you want to know more, you can follow me on Twitter or send me an electronic letter to arm.sosa[at]gmail.com.
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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.
