Resume | Ramiro Santa Ana Anguiano

Hi! If you’re here it’s because you know that I design digital products and publish with free and open source software. Here are more facts about me:

¡Hola! Si estás aquí es porque sabes que diseño productos digitales y publico con software libre o de código abierto. Aquí te dejo otros hechos sobre mí:

I studied Philosophy.

Estudié Filosofía.

I enjoy reading non-fiction books and papers.

Disfruto la lectura de libros académicos y de papers.

I like to spend time with my family and ride my bike.

Me gusta pasar tiempo con mi familia y andar en bicicleta.

I dream that my prose is code and my code is prose.

Sueño que mi prosa es código y mi código es prosa.

Archivo de la Palabra

Perform a full-text search of the Mexican Academy of Language’s Spanish corpus. I built the system and product design. Realiza búsquedas de texto completo del corpus en español de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua. Aquí hice el diseño del sistema y de la plataforma. #visit #git

Women Deprived of Freedom

Read and listen to the poetry of incarcerated women. I built the web UI/UX, book and cover design.Lee y escucha la poesía de mujeres en situación de reclusión. Aquí hice el diseño de la página web, del libro y de la portada. #visit #git

A Larger Reality

Play or read English-Spanish transmedia sci-fi stories. I built the website UI and the video game UX.Juega o lee historias de ciencia ficción bilingües y transmediáticas. Aquí hice el sitio y el videojuego. #visit #git

My Digital Corner

Check out this hacked tablet for kids featuring media and video games, with harmful sites blocked. I built the minimum viable product.Revisa esta tableta hackeada para niños con media y juegos, y con sitios dañinos bloqueados. Aquí hice el producto viable mínimo. #git

PocketAI

Use AI on your device. No servers. Download once, use offline. I built the proof of concept with agentic coding.Usa IA en tu dispositivo. Sin servidores. Descarga una vez y úsalo sin conexión. Aquí hice la prueba de concepto con agentes. #visit #git

CLIterature

Learn the basics of the command-line interface through literature. I designed and built the website, as well as the video game’s UI/UX.Aprende el uso básico de la interfaz de línea de comandos con obras literarias. Aquí hice el sitio y el videojuego. #visit #git

UNAM Futuro

Navigate in the history and architecture of the biggest public university in Latin America. I built the mobile app with augmented reality.Navega en la historia y la arquitectura de la universidad pública más grande de América Latina. Aquí hice la aplicación móvil con realidad aumentada. #visit

In search of Kayla

See how Kayla’s friends rescue her from a human trafficking ring that began with online grooming in this children’s story by Lydia Cacho. I created the appbook adaptation.Ve cómo los amigos de Kayla logran rescatarla de una red de trata de personas que comenzó con ciberacoso en esta historia infantil escrita por Lydia Cacho. Aquí hice la adaptación a appbook. #visit

Nieve de Chamoy

Watch my first steps in cross-media product design and creation. I was a co-founder and CTO of this independent publishing company.Mira mis primeros pasos en el diseño y creación de productos transmediáticos. Aquí fui cofundador y director de tecnología de esta pequeña editorial independiente. #visit

Made In La Charca

Explore migrant stories through their media testimonials. I built the website UI.Explora historia de migrantes a través de sus testimonios. Aquí hice el sitio. #visit #git

Pacific Park & Play

View the work of a local SoCal park builder. I made the logo animation and website UI/UX.Ve el trabajo de un constructor local de parques en California. Aquí hice la animación del logo y el sitio. #visit #git

Palabrertijos

Practice your French with this flashcard app I created for my French exam. I built the app UI/UX and the icon.Practica tu francés con esta aplicación que creé para mi examen de francés. Aquí hice la app y el icono. #visit #git

Flet Pomodoro Timer

Be productive without burning out. Work in intervals with this timer. I built the proof of concept with agentic coding.Mantén tu productividad sin desgastarte. Trabaja en intervalos con este temporizador. Aquí hice la prueba de concepto con agentes. #visit #git

Highlights of Qualifications

Bilingual in Spanish and English
Self-driven learner, inclusive and community-engaged
19 years of experience in digital product design and publishing
11 years of experience as digital product advisor, instructor and workshop facilitator
9 years of experience working remotely and with global teams
7 years of experience in linguistic projects
4 years of experience in web frameworks
1 year of experience implementing AI for creating digital products

Professional Experience

Digital Product Design & UX Experience

Create cross-platform high-fidelty prototypes, proof of concepts and minimum viable products, by hand or with AI-assisted agentic coding
Design, develop and publish web pages, books, papers, ebooks, audiobooks and apps
Design user experiences (UX) and build user interfaces (UI) for web, command-line shells, apps and CMS
Perform a variety of common tasks with texts such as publishing, Spanish copy editing, localization, proofreading and text normalization
Implement projects for tracking product changes, automating content publishing, performing QA and testing workflows
Familiar with web accessibility (ARIA roles and attributes) and ebook accessibility (DAISY EPUB specification)

Tech Stack

Use of common office software: Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Drive, Dropbox, Nextcloud, Adobe, Figma and Asana
Familiar with CMS, for example: Django, WordPress, ActiveAdmin, Joomla and Drupal
Utilize GNU/Linux Operating Systems and command-line interfaces such as Debian, Arch Linux, Bash, Git, Vim, SSH, Docker and Makefile
Proficient in script programming and typesetting markup like Python, Lua, JavaScript, Markdown, HTML, XML, XHTML, LaTeX, and reStructuredText
Develop command-line tools to improve work speed and quality
Ability to learn and apply new technologies and methodologies to improve digital products and workflows

Management Experience

Lead small work teams (up to 5 people) for project-based contracts
Lead different kinds of collaborators such as developers, managers, designers, writers and academics
Apply or design methodologies for improving digital product workflows
Apply or develop new technologies for improving digital product workflows
Coordinate projects for producing web pages, books, magazines, learning materials and video dubbing
Managed projects for the Mexican government, universities, and independent publishers

Recent Employment History

Spanish Content Operations Associate (present); Print Production Editor (former)

⇒ September 2023 – Present ◇ New York (remote)

Zearn
Corpus Sysadmin & Lead Developer

⇒ January 2020 – Present ◇ Mexico City (remote)

Mexican Academy of Language
Editorial Board Member

⇒ February 2025 – Present ◇ Roskilde, Denmark & The Hague, Netherlands (remote)

Open Access Journals Toolkit
Textbook Translator (English to Spanish)

⇒ March 2023 – April, 2023 ◇ Saint George, Utah (remote)

Academic Innovations
Book Editor

⇒ October 2022 – January, 2023 ◇ Mexico City

Wikimedia
Book Editor

⇒ June 2022 – September, 2022 ◇ Mexico City

Faculty of Music, UNAM
eBook Developer & Tester

⇒ August 2018 – June, 2022 ◇ Colima, Mexico

Programando LIBREros
Foreword Writer

⇒ June 2019 – June, 2022 ◇ Mexico City

Gandhi Bookstore Editions
Technical Support (Volunteer)

⇒ April 2022 ◇ Mexico City (remote)

FLISoL Install Fest
Workshop Instructor

⇒ February 2021 – July 2021 ◇ Mexico City

Mexican Academy of Language
Technical Support (Volunteer)

⇒ April 2021 ◇ Mexico City (remote)

FLISoL Install Fest
eBook Developer & Tester

⇒ June 2020 – September 2020 ◇ Mexico City

Center for Research on North America, UNAM
eBook Developer & Tester

⇒ September 2017 – June 2020 ◇ Mexico City

Publishing Department, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences
Digital Strategy Consultant

⇒ March 2020 – June 2020 ◇ Mexico City

Mexican Secretariat of Public Education
Technical Support (Volunteer)

⇒ April 2020 ◇ Mexico City (remote)

FLISoL Install Fest
Workshop Instructor

⇒ April 2020 ◇ Mexico City

Faculty of Philosophy, Ibero-American University

Education

M.A., Philosophy, GPA 3.96

⇒ August 2017 – May 2022 ◇ Mexico City

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
B.A., Philosophy, GPA 3.86

⇒ August 2007 – October 2011 ◇ Colima, Mexico

University of Colima

Awards

National Endowment for Culture and Arts

⇒ May 2022

Scholarship as a young creator for applied arts (editorial design) granted by the Mexican government
Master Research with Honorific Mention

⇒ May 2022

Highest honor granted by the thesis advisory committee
Stimulus Program for Artistic Creation and Development

⇒ February 2022

Scholarship as a young creator for research and dissemination of cultural heritage granted by the government of Colima, Mexico
Peña Colorada Award for Valedictory Honors

⇒ November 2011

Best student in my bachelor's degree program

Cualificaciones destacadas

Bilingüe español-inglés
Autodidacta, inclusivo y comprometido con la comunidad
19 años de experiencia en el diseño y la publicación de productos digitales
11 años de asesor de productos digitales, instructor y tallerista
9 años de trabajo remoto y con colaboradores internacionales
7 años de trabajo en proyectos lingüísticos
4 años de desarrollo web
1 año de experiencia implementando IA para la creación de productos digitales

Experiencia profesional

Diseño de productos digitales y experiencia de usuario

Creo prototipos de alta fidelidad, pruebas de concepto y productos viables mínimos.
Diseño, desarrollo y publico páginas web, libros, artículos académicos, libros electrónicos, audiolibros y apps.
Diseño experiencias de usuario (UX) y construyo interfaces de usuario (UI) para web, CLI, móbiles y CMS.
Desempeño una variedad de tareas comunes con el texto como su publicación, edición, traducción, lectura de pruebas y normalización de textos.
Implemento proyectos para rastrear cambios en el producto, automatizar su publicación, realizar control de calidad y hacer pruebas a los flujos de trabajo.
Estoy familiarizado con la accesibilidad web (roles y atributos ARIA) y de libros electrónicos (especificación DAISY para EPUB).

Stack tecnológico

Uso software común para la oficina: Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Drive, Dropbox, Nextcloud, Adobe, Figma y Asana.
Conocimiento de CMS, por ejemplo: Django, WordPress, ActiveAdmin, Joomla y Drupal.
Utilizo sistemas operativos GNU/Linux e interfaces de línea de comandos, por ejemplo: Debian, Arch Linux, Bash, Git, Vim, SSH, Docker y Makefile.
Soy hábil en lenguajes programación y de marcado tipográfico, por ejemplo: Python, Lua, JavaScipt, Markdown, HTML, XML, XHTML, LaTeX y reStructuredText.
Desarrollo programas para la terminal con el fin de mejorar la velocidad o la calidad de mi trabajo.
Gusto por el aprendizaje y la aplicación de nuevas tecnologías y metodologías para mejorar los productos digitales o sus flujos de trabajo.

Experiencia en gerencia

Lidero equipos de trabajo pequeños (de hasta 5 personas) para contratos basados en proyectos.
Lidero distintos tipos de colaboradores como programadores, gerentes, diseñadores, escritores o académicos.
Aplico o diseño metodologías para mejorar el flujo de elaboración de productos digitales.
Aplico o desarrollo nuevas tecnologías para mejorar el flujo de elaboración de productos digitales.
Coordino proyectos para la producción de páginas web, libros, revistas, materiales de aprendizaje y doblaje.
Gestioné proyectos para el gobierno mexicano, editoriales universitarias y pequeñas editoriales.

Members of the Mexican Academy of Language and target users.

The Mexican Academy of Language is the correspondent academy in Mexico of the Royal Spanish Academy. Like the other member academies, its principal function is to ensure the proper usage of the Spanish language. Archivo de la Palabra is one of its projects, and its objective is to offer an open-access Spanish corpus platform for academics and researchers.

My role began as a consultant and instructor. Over time I was brought on to design their XML Schema, and eventually became the lead designer and developer of their platform.

Search engine Computational linguistics Open Access

The user wanted to use CQPweb as the front end and CWB as a corpus search engine. During the trials, we discovered that CQPweb lacked metadata and document management support, and its UI/UX design made the platform difficult to use or customize. The user also wanted to use FreeLing for natural language processing (NLP). Unfortunately, during our trial, we found that FreeLing’s development had stalled and its APIs were outdated or non-functional.

Under these circumstances, I proposed developing a Django CMS platform to replace CQPweb while keeping CWB as the corpora engine. For NLP tasks, I suggested using spaCy or NLTK. Since Django is a Python framework and spaCy and NLTK are Python packages, they share a common language across the front-end, document management, and corpora search, reducing the skills required for future devs.

To allow more flexibility when managing documents, I designed DjangoCWB around three main objects: corpora, locales, and documents. With this structure, every document is assigned to one locale, enabling a multilingual corpus, and to one or more corpora, avoiding duplication and allowing different document metadata per corpus.

In all the corpora platforms we reviewed, linguistic data wasn’t present in the interface and users were expected to already know where to find it. To address this UX issue, I designed modal windows that display the data and allow users to apply it directly to their search in just one click.

CWB has its query language, CQP, with a 76-page manual. Due to copyright concerns, most of this language can’t be used in DjangoCWB, and yet it still has a steep learning curve, requiring constant instruction for users to find the linguistic data they need. For these reasons, I am currently designing a query interface similar to GitLab’s work items search bar (prototype) where users can easily select the type of tokens they are looking for, without needing to learn CQP syntax.

XML markup also has a steep learning curve that has prevented the markup team from producing more documents and training new personnel efficiently. Taking advantage of the fact that markup is for documents, I am currently working with the markup team so they can create valid XML files without knowing XML at all, using Editor.js as a visual editor instead (prototype).

Search result in DjangoCWB.

The platform has been live since 2026 as a minimum viable product. Thanks to the results, we were granted additional funding that allowed us to hire a software engineer. Currently, in my spare time, I focus on the design while leading the engineer towards better performance, deployment, and maintainability. This year, the objective is to finish the products in progress and design a user panel. In the medium to long term, the Mexican Academy of Language plans to offer the platform to other academies as a path toward the self-sustainability of Archivo de la Palabra.

Through this project, I was able to design every aspect of a digital product while learning about systems design, user-centered design, object-oriented programming, and computational linguistics.

Mantis, an alien bug and distant relative of Zorak, one of Space Ghost’s greatest enemies.

Pocket AI is a personal toy project where I tested the possibility of having my own local AI chat. Instead of using a paid AI service, I wanted an AI chat under my control. I tried first with a self-hosted AI solution (Open WebUI), but I realized I was looking for something more minimalistic and transitory. So Pocket AI is where I experimented with Transformers.js and Bulma.io to create an AI chat I can share as a file.

Pocket AI’s chat name is Mantis, a Dokarian alien bug. Instead of a realistic humanization of AI, I opted for a sci-fi characterization.

Local AI Proof of concept Open Source

Part of the test was trying agentic coding in Spanish using a trial and error approach. By the third iteration in Claude chat, I had a product that met my initial design, functionality, and usability expectations.

In the next step, I used Claude Code to improve the UI/UX, fix a couple of bugs and glitches, and deploy the chat as a GitLab Page. With this, I completed a full cycle from conception to deployment in just a few days.

A chat with Mantis asking about Transformers.js.

The test is available online. The main barrier I encountered was the hardware, even the smallest model would freeze my computer for a couple of seconds. As a product, it is unpolished but promising, since it fulfills the initial requirements.

The prototyping experience with agentic coding has been one of my most pleasant ways of using AI. Taking advantage of the expected limitations of a prototype and of the known issues in AI code quality, it is possible to go from brainstorming to a functional prototype in just a couple of hours. In this approach, the design aspect of the product allows you to look past its engineering limitations.