EST. 2014
▸ A FULL-STACK SOFTWARE ENGINEER APPEARS
Martin Sosa
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Full-stack engineer shipping production web and mobile in React 19 / TypeScript and Node.js / PostgreSQL — with LLM APIs (Claude, Gemini) behind real guardrails and self-hosted model infrastructure. Six-plus years deep in AI-driven document processing at a Fortune 500 insurer before going independent.
Stats & Loadout
Self-rated proficiency. Hover a bar for the gist.
Core Stats
- Full-Stack 92
- AI Integration 85
- Frontend 88
- Backend / DB 84
- DevOps / Infra 78
Loadout
Languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript (ES6+)
- Python
- SQL / PostgreSQL
- PHP
Frontend & Mobile
- React 19
- React Native (Expo)
- Tailwind CSS
- Vite
Backend & Data
- Node.js (Express 5)
- PostgreSQL
- Firebase
AI / LLM
- Claude & Gemini APIs
- LLM guardrails
- Self-hosted (Ollama)
- MCP
DevOps & Security
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- NVIDIA CUDA
- Tailscale
- JWT / bcrypt
- Vercel
Quest Log
The active campaign. Headline work lives in private repos — happy to walk through the code.
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★ Legendary Private repo
KODA — Scholastic Esports LMS
A React 19 / TypeScript learning-management platform for K–12 scholastic esports on a Firebase backend, designed for an addressable market of 700+ Title I schools in NYC. Shipped KODA Coach — an in-app AI assistant on the Gemini API via a Firebase callable function, with auth gating, rate limiting, prompt-injection input sanitization, and per-user context injection. Real-time bracket engine (single/double elimination + round-robin) and role-based access control, built to FERPA/COPPA standards.
- 110+ PRs merged
- Zero-downtime previews
- FERPA / COPPA
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◆ Epic Private repo
Ledes — Category-Selective Microblogging
A social mobile app with a novel “lede” model — followers subscribe to specific content buckets (e.g. Tech vs. Sports) per creator. React Native (Expo) + TypeScript front end on a Node.js / Express 5 + PostgreSQL backend: an 18-endpoint REST API, JWT auth with silent token refresh, gesture-driven UI (Reanimated), optimistic updates, and full-text search.
- 18-endpoint API
- Silent token refresh
- Optimistic UI
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❖ Rare Private repo
Hermes — Self-Hosted LLM Stack
Deployed & operate a self-hosted Qwen3-8B (64k context) via Ollama alongside a Dockerized ComfyUI/SDXL image service with NVIDIA CUDA GPU passthrough on a remote box. Shared-VRAM management (model eviction before image generation), idempotent phased deploys (preflight → build → smoke → integrate) with automatic rollback, and zero-port-forward remote access over a Tailscale (WireGuard) mesh — wired into a Discord
/imaginecommand.- Shared-GPU VRAM ops
- Phased deploys + rollback
- WireGuard mesh
Side Quests & The Archives
Earlier open-source adventures — fully explorable.
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warbase
Map-based conquest game on the Foursquare API — claim and hold real-world locations. Ruby -
exp-atk
Full-stack forum platform built by a team of four. Ruby -
personal-pokedex
Pokédex powered by the PokéAPI with AJAX & JSON. JavaScript -
ROScripts
Scripts for Ragnarok Online private servers — where the adventure started. Game dev
Chronicle
The campaign history.
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Jan 2025 – Present
Independent Software Engineer
Remote
Full-stack product engineering and AI infrastructure — KODA, Ledes, and the Hermes self-hosted LLM stack (see the Quest Log above).
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Oct 2018 – Jan 2025
Software Engineer
Equitable — Secaucus, NJ (Remote/Hybrid) · promoted from Workflow Analyst
Optimized the Python services powering Hyperscience, an AI-driven OCR platform parsing high-variance, semi-structured insurance documents — including incomplete and corrupted inputs. Refined the SmartFix classification algorithm and automated email-to-database and batch workflows with Python + SQL feeding Tableau dashboards.
- +60% classification accuracy
- −90% manual effort
- −75% manual data entry
- +60% uptime (<1% downtime)
- −40% turnaround
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Origin
Training
B.S. Computer Science — Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 2014.
Software Engineering Intensive Certificate — NY Code + Design Academy, 2018.
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