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RUAH STUDIO

Who is behind it

I was made
to build.

I'm John, founder of Ruah Studio. And before programmer, entrepreneur or any other title, I'm a son of God — and that changes everything, because it defines how I build, not only what I build.

Founder/Engineer/Product builder/System architect
John Salazar

Founder

John Salazar

Where I learned to build

I'm 20, and I learned to create in the country where everything pushes you not to create anything. Where the power cuts out halfway through a line of code, where there's no budget for the tool you need, where giving up is normal and insisting is the strange thing to do.

There, from an island in Venezuela, with nobody handing me the path, I understood that the limits weren't there to stop me — they were there to shape me. And shape they do. Every time something broke, I learned to repair it. Every time I didn't know, I sat down and learned it until sunrise. Every time I fell, I got back up — not the same, but better.

That isn't a nice line for a profile: it is, literally, how I work. Resilience to me isn't taking hits; it's going on creating with excellence when doing it halfway would be easier. It's delivering what I promised, and a little more, even on the days nobody would notice if I didn't.

So I'm not a technician who hands over a file and disappears. I'm a founder before I'm a vendor: I build my own brands, I risk my own money, and I know first-hand what it weighs to carry something from zero. When I work with you I don't see a “job” — I see the business of someone who, like me, is betting on something. And I treat that with the same respect I treat my own.

Because I know Who is watching.

What Ruah means

Ruah

Ruah means breath, spirit, the breath of life.

It's the reminder that everything I do is done with purpose, with soul and with excellence — because to me creating is a way of honouring God, and excellence isn't a luxury, it's worship.

I was made to create and to lead, and every project is a chance to show it.

How I work

01

The problem comes before the stack

Choosing a framework is easy. Knowing what not to build is the hard part, and it is where most budgets are lost.

02

Proof before promises

I don't ask you to trust me blindly. Every system I build is made to be touched, tested and checked before you commit another cent.

03

You talk to the person building it

No account layer, no handoff to a junior after the contract is signed. The person in the first call writes the code.

04

Boring software wins

The systems that survive are the ones somebody can still maintain in two years. Clever is a liability.

05

What I promised, and a little more

Even on the days nobody would notice if I didn't. Excellence doesn't switch on when there's an audience.

The difference

Most agencies sell you code. I build you something that works, that grows, and that changes how the business runs.

What you're usually sold

Templates dressed up as custom solutions.

Every system built for your problem, from the first file.

Technical words so you'll trust it blindly.

Proof before promises: touch it, test it, check it.

A file delivered, and then silence.

A founder who treats your business the way he treats his own.

Track record

Real roles. Real dates. Verifiable.

Experience

Jul 2026 — Present

Marketing Technology Developer · Freelance

Digital marketing agency (confidential client)

Remote

  • Built and maintain the sales-funnel infrastructure for 11 brands across 11 domains in 7 languages on Cloudflare Pages, with 260K+ visits in the last 90 days.
  • Developed a custom analytics system (Cloudflare Worker + real-time dashboard) that replaced third-party tools: per-brand traffic, funnel steps, device and in-app browser breakdown.
  • Migrated DNS and deployments to Cloudflare; built the agency website with i18n and transactional email.
  • Designed AI prompt systems for video and image production.
  • Cloudflare
  • Analytics
  • Internationalisation
  • Sales funnels

Aug 2026 — Present

Founder & Full-Stack Developer

Ruah Studio

Isla de Margarita, Venezuela · Remote

  • Studio platform: a 7-language site with an AI assistant that qualifies leads and produces quotes, connected to an agentic CRM where AI proposes and a human approves. Built and tested; preparing for launch.
  • RUAH Cookies: an e-commerce MVP in Next.js 16 and PostgreSQL with local mobile payments, live exchange rates, and kitchen and inventory modules; 120+ automated tests.
  • RUAH Core: one customer identity shared across Studio, Cookies and Food through signed, deduplicated events.
  • Full-stack
  • Applied AI
  • Automation
  • System architecture

Apr 2025 — Apr 2026

Multidisciplinary Project Leader

VitalCare · UDO Robotics Group

Nueva Esparta, Venezuela · Hybrid

  • Led a low-cost patient-monitoring system for public outpatient clinics in Nueva Esparta, with early alerts.
  • Blood pressure, oxygen saturation, heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature and ECG signals, over ESP32, MQTT, REST and JWT.
  • Coordinated research, prototyping and hardware–software integration end to end.
  • Embedded systems
  • IoT
  • Medical sensing
  • Team leadership

Education

Oct 2023 — Jul 2028

B.Sc. Computer Science

Universidad de Oriente

GPA 8.44 / 10

  • Section Leader every semester. Member of the UDO Robotics Group. Community service.
  • Engineering thesis in progress: an AI-assisted ambulatory ECG wearable. Research prototype, not a commercial medical device.
  • Algorithms
  • Mathematics
  • Databases
  • Computer systems

Before you write

If you're looking for someone to code it cheap and fast, there are a thousand options out there, and all of them will get you by.

But if you're looking for someone who understands your vision as if it were his own, who doesn't quit when it gets hard, and who builds with the conviction of knowing he was made for this — then you didn't land here by accident.

Let's build something worth building.

The kind that doesn't fall over. The kind that leaves a mark. Tell me what you're trying to get off the ground.