Summary
Armando Mota is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building reliable web applications and APIs using JavaScript, Go, Ruby, React, and serverless AWS patterns. He currently engineers product and platform features at The Farmer's Dog and previously co-created Tacklebox, an open-source serverless webhooks-as-a-service framework where he built the CLI, API client, Lambda handlers, and authored a technical case study. Armando blends hands-on backend work (API Gateway, Lambda, PostgreSQL) with front-end UX and management UI development, shipping end-to-end solutions from infrastructure to React/Redux interfaces. His background includes product-focused roles as a project manager, giving him a strong sense for translating customer needs into technical requirements and delivering pragmatic systems. He’s comfortable across languages and runtimes, contributing libraries in JavaScript, Ruby, Go, and Python for real-world integrations. Outside core duties, he favors building developer tooling and automation—evidenced by the CLI and deployment tooling he implemented for Tacklebox.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley
Santa Monica College
Full Stack Software Development, Full Stack Software Development at Launch School