Summary
Armando Locay is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable back-end systems and internal tools across startups and large enterprises, now contributing to Apollo GraphQL from Miami. He has strong Java and Spring expertise from designing microservices at OfferUp for jobs, rentals, and payments, and experience with React, GraphQL, and Python for internal admin tooling. His background includes mission-critical software for satellite communications at Northrop Grumman and platform work at Microsoft, giving him a pragmatic systems perspective across desktop, web, and cloud. Known for bridging product and engineering needs, he focuses on reliable integrations with AWS and pragmatic service design. Colleagues describe him as a steady problem-solver who brings both deep technical craft and cross-team collaboration to complex distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Coral Reef Senior High School
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Miami
Spanish, English