Almendra Olivas
Say helloI build platforms and interfaces that are fast, accessible, and gentle to use — from the database to the last pixel — and I speak about the craft behind them.
I think the web should be soft, welcoming, and built for everyone.
My work sits where performant code meets humane design. I care about the details that make an interface feel effortless — especially for the people who usually get designed around instead of designed for.
Eight-plus years of that, mostly on platforms and products: at Octahedroid I worked on Composabase, on Pantheon's open-source decoupled-kit-js SDKs, and with enterprise teams at Okta, Auth0, and Databricks — and now I'm co-founder of Coyomi Labs.
These days I build component systems, shape accessible experiences, and speak about the things that matter to me: inclusive design, queer and trans visibility in tech, and writing code that lasts.
Being a trans woman is part of who I am, and it shapes how I show up as an engineer and as a community member. I want the spaces I help build — online and off — to be places where people can be fully themselves.
What I'm building — platforms, products, and the tools around them. Where there's a link, it goes straight to the live thing.
coyomilabs.dev
My company's product — I'm co-founder of Coyomi Labs. Workflow orchestration for humans and AI: formal state machines coordinate people, tools, and agents, while meta-agents watch for bottlenecks and rebalance the load.
composabase.com
One production-ready GraphQL API composed from the data sources a team already runs — Postgres, MySQL, OpenAPI, Airtable — with auth, caching, and security included.
valgoritmo.com
Company valuations in Spanish, done properly: five-year DCF projections, WACC, and current market data, exported as a documented PDF you can take into a board meeting.
Coming soon
An agentic accessibility auditor in TypeScript. It crawls a site and uses Claude's tool use to run WCAG checks page by page, then writes a report that says what's broken and how to fix it. I care about accessible interfaces enough to build the thing that audits them.
I run Tech Crafters, a developer community in Durango.
We meet to learn together — workshops on AI tooling, modern web development, and the craft of building things well. Most of the talks below happened there. I want Durango to be a place where you don't have to leave to grow.
Every deck is still live. Open one and read it at your own pace.
2026
3 talks
Sponsored by Cursor
A hands-on workshop taking developers, designers, and first-timers up the AI coding maturity ladder — from prompting to autonomous agents — with everyone shipping a working site by the end.
Open slides
From index.html to AI — a 30-year argument about what the rendering function is and where it should run.
How to take an idea from spark to something shippable — and how AI can help you move faster without losing craft along the way.
2025
2 talks
Why shipping fast puts you in debt, why that debt can be a good thing, and how to pay it back before the interest buries you.
Vibecoding with AI has luck built in, just like poker — a talk (in Spanish) about playing with strategy and intention instead of gambling on the next prompt.
Say hello.
Email is the surest way to reach me. I read everything that lands there.