About Ayotl
Ayotl (pronounced “ah-yotl”) is “turtle” in Nahuatl. It's one of the roots attributed to the name of Sahuayo, the town in Michoacán, Mexico, where I'm from: the most repeated reading derives it from “tzacuatlayotl”, “turtle-shaped vessel”, from “tzacuatl” (vessel) and “ayotl” (turtle). There are other versions, as with almost every town etymology; I'm keeping the turtle.
I liked it as a name because it says a lot about how I work. A turtle doesn't run, but it gets there; it carries its house on its back and doesn't need much else. Ayotl's projects are like that: small, self-sufficient, with no investors and no rush, built by one person who uses and maintains them.
I'm Adrián. I build software from Sahuayo for specific people: the businesses in my region, people studying Japanese, and people who want a five-minute challenge every day. Each app has its own domain and its own life; Ayotl is the umbrella that brings them together.
Who's behind it
I'm a software developer: about five years, the last three in Salesforce — Industries/OmniStudio, Order Management, Financial Services Cloud — and before that in RPA automation. I've worked at IBM, Bluetab, xpd global and now Ness Digital Engineering.
I study Japanese and hold the JLPT N3, which is where JLPTest came from; I live in Sahuayo, which is where Mercadito came from. Ayotl is what I do on my own, outside work.
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Open to Salesforce and integration work.
How it's built
Everything runs on the same foundation: Next.js and TypeScript, deployed on Railway with Docker, data in Supabase (Postgres), and the store apps as wrappers around the web. Code on GitHub, comments in Spanish.