Welcome! - Introduce yourself

[driesvints]

👋 Hey everyone,

Welcome to the Laravel discussions section. I felt that it might be cool to kick-off this section with a thread where you can introduce yourself. I'll start off!

I'm Dries, one of the core maintainers of Laravel where I maintain most of the first party open source libraries. I also maintain Laravel.io which is the Laravel community portal website.

In my free time I work on various open source projects and tweet from my twitter.

Who are you? Let us know in a comment below 👇

[ericlbarnes]

Hi Dries,

I'm Eric Barnes and I've been using Laravel since before the dragon was removed.

[themsaid]

Issue resolved. The answer is Eric.

[IamSwap]

Hello everyone,

I am Swapnil Bhavsar, A full-stack developer from India!

I blog about Laravel, Vue.js & other development topics at swapnil.dev.

[themsaid]

Hello Swapnil 👋

[IamSwap]

Hi! Nice to see you guys around here!

[stefanbauer]

Hi,

I'm Stefan, none of the core maintainers of Laravel. I'm from Germany, more precisely Munich. I am the owner of PingPing.io. I am a huge fan of Laravel, Laracon Visitor, and work with @bobbybouwmann – the number 1 on Laracasts - on a new book called Laravel Secrets.

I blog more or less regularly on my blog and you can find me on Twitter as well.

[TheBlckbird]

oh hi, Deutscher

[awebartisan]

Hey everyone 👋

I am Zubair Mohsin, based in Pakistan 🇵🇰

Working on Laravel everyday, every night. I mostly build Shopify apps with Laravel on the Backend and React on front-end. So I guess that makes me Full-Stack 🤷🏻‍♂️

I tweet about Laravel and Shopify App Development stuff. @Zubairmohsin33

Looking forward to useful discussions here 🙏🏼

[nmokkenstorm]

Definately a useful combination for Full Stack work on Shopify apps 💪

[reinink]

Hey there! I am Jonathan Reinink, full stack developer from Canada. 👋

I've contributed to Laravel in the past, mostly stuff related to Eloquent and the query builder.

Projects of mine include Inertia.js, Tailwind CSS, Glide and recently a course on Laravel database performance called Eloquent Performance Patterns.

[Cannonb4ll]

InertiaJS 💙

[IamSwap]

Eagerly waiting for your Eloquent performance course!

[jjcodes78]

Inertiajs 💚. Using it in my projects, thanks @reinink .

[mvdnbrk]

Cool! A worthy successor of the laravel/ideas repo 🎉

I am Mark, developer from The Netherlands.

Contributed to the Laravel framework itself, Nova and other packages in the eco system.
Maintaining the laravel-mix.com website.

[imliam]

Hey 👋 I'm Liam.

I've got a couple of open source Laravel packages I maintain and share some tips about Laravel I've figured out on my site and Twitter.

First picked up Laravel on the tail end of v4, and loved it ever since. I haven't really worked with Laravel in my day job for a couple of years now, but love the framework and community too much I can't get away. Still using Laravel for a bunch of side-projects at least 🎉

[ryangjchandler]

Funny seeing you here!

[imliam]

How ya doin', Ryan?!

[Cannonb4ll]

Hi there :)

[ahinkle]

Hey Liam! Thanks for all of your community help!

[ryangjchandler]

Hello, World!

I'm Ryan. I'm a Laravel and JavaScript developer who has been working with Laravel since the late days of 4.2.

I've recently started blogging and building a following in the community, alongside some of my other work on the Alpine.js team.

[m1guelpf]

Hey there!

I'm Miguel Piedrafita, I'm 18 and I make stuff, mostly with Laravel.

[Cannonb4ll]

Hey! 👏

I'm Dennis, Laravel developer from The Netherlands. I have a few awesome Laravel articles on medium

Working a lot with InertiaJS on several projects 🚀

Have contributed a few times to this repository and planning to do some more. 👀 (Especially Horizon)

[KennedyTedesco]

Hi, there! I'm Kennedy, a web developer from 🇧🇷

I've contributed to Laravel ❤️ in the past, started using it since the beginning.

[themsaid]

Hey! Man, you added whereIn() to collections. A legend.

[KennedyTedesco]

@themsaid I wish I have such a good memory like yours! :P Thank you so much for your kind words. You truly inspire all of us.

@alfaVeteran ❤️

[themsaid]

When I first started contributing to Laravel I watched your PRs closely to learn how to open a PR, add commits, etc... Thanks for everything ❤️

[setkyar]

Hello everyone! I am Set Kyar Wa Lar which means Universe. I am a Web Developer from Myanmar.

I use Laravel since version 3. I am writing Laravel articles in Burmese at https://laravelmyanmar.com. Last time Laravel Myanmar use to translate Laravel documentation and it's stopped for a while. I hope to start back soon.

[bosunski]

Hi there!
I'm Bosun. I'm a PHP and Javascript Developer from Nigeria. I'm a fan of this community and the amazing works being done!
Though I've not contributed to Laravel before, I work with Laravel every day and one of the projects I made recently is PHPSandbox.

[alprnkeskekoglu]

Hi! 👍

I'm Alperen, I'm form Turkey. I have been using Laravel for 2 years and i have only one package. Maybe there will be more in the future.

[dillingham]

I'm Brian, freelancer. Built some Nova packages. Working on other open source projects soon to be released. Here's my twitter

[hugobaret]

Hello, I'm Hugo BARET, I'm a French EPITECH student living in Paris and I have been using Laravel for the past two weeks.

[simonrjones]

Hi, I'm Simon from Cambridge, UK! I run digital agency Studio 24. I've developed with PHP for 25 years and we use Laravel (and some Symfony) on lots of client projects. We're big believers in accessibility and progressive enhancement for JavaScript. Laravel is a fantastic tool & hope to be able to contribute in some way!

Mastodon | BlueSky | LinkedIn

[MariosIgkiempor]

I'm Mario 👋🏽 Been learning & loving Laravel for a year now.

Solo dev in an education company, migrating our Next.js app to Laravel to make my life easier

[omwami999]

I am Oliver Wanjala I started learning Laravel 7 years ago... Its diversification over the years has proved to be progressive ... Flowers to the core developers

[muath-ye]

Hi Oliver Wanjala

[Mdhesari]

Hello Artisans!

I am a Persian backend developer and started enjoying with Laravel 5 years ago...

Building web applications with Laravel is truly lovely.

[muath-ye]

Welcome Persian

[thezahedi]

Hey Artisans,

I'm Saman, a proud Kurd/Persian Backend Developer from Iran 🇮🇷, with over 7 years of experience building robust backend systems. I specialize in Fintech solutions and currently work at Jibimo, where we innovate to simplify financial transactions.

As a fellow Artisan, I believe in craftsmanship, continuous learning, and sharing knowledge with others. One of my greatest joys is teaching and mentoring, helping others grow while growing myself.

[muath-ye]

Welcome Saman

[zigzagdev]

Hi ! 🙌

I'm Masa and Japanese software developer.

Thank you for your continued support!

[muath-ye]

Hi Masa @zigzagdev
Is your name Masa or Masatoshi?

[zigzagdev]

@muath-ye

Hi !

Thanks for replying !!

My name is Masatoshi, but everyone calls me Masa !

[omwami999]

Hello my name is Oliver

[ashokatheheroo]

Hi everyone!

I'm Ashok, a Software Engineer from Bangladesh, specializing in PHP and Laravel for the backend, and VueJS, InertiaJS, and TailwindCSS for the frontend.

Recently, I've developed a strong interest in contributing to open-source projects, and I'm excited to give back to the community that has helped me grow.

Looking forward to connecting, collaborating, and learning with all of you!

Thanks!

[verdesgrobert]

Hi everyone!

I'm Robert, a web developer from Italy, working in multiple tech stacks.

I am using Laravel Telescope and am interested in making it a better tool for performance tracking.

[faridibin]

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Farid, a software engineer and Laravel enthusiast from Ghana 🇬🇭, currently living in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦.
I spend my days (and often nights!) working with Laravel, building everything from payment systems to investment platforms.
I'm currently working on Beeterty, a financial management platform.

You can find me on Twitter @fareedibin and check out my blog at faridibin.tech.

Looking forward to engaging with this amazing community! 🚀

[elmahdiben119]

Hi everyone,

I’m El Mahdi Benbrahim, a software engineer with over 5 years of experience working with PHP, Laravel, and Vue.js. I’m passionate about building web applications that are efficient, scalable, and easy to maintain.

Throughout my career, I’ve worked on various projects where I’ve been able to dive deep into Laravel and Vue.js to create dynamic, user-friendly solutions. To check out some of my work, visit my portfolio: www.elmahdibenbrahim.com.

I’m excited to join this discussion and look forward to contributing, learning, and exchanging ideas with all of you

[okedialf]

Hi,
I'm Alfred Okedi from Uganda, a student of Software Engineering for close to 2 decades now.

It was a struggle introducing my team to laravel in 2015.

Now we are using it in all new major projects and plan to migrate older ones too.

[omwami999]

Oliver Wanjala Software Engineeer- Kenya

[lucascnunes]

Hello, I'm Lucas. I've been using Laravel since version 5.4. I'm a dentist who fell in love with coding, especially with PHP and the Laravel framework, after graduating. Now, I'm excited to transition into tech professionally.

I've been keeping up with the evolution of the Laravel ecosystem and have created projects to manage my office and others, which I use daily

✌️

[andreapollastri]

👋 Hello, I'm Andrea and I've been a software developer since 2005 and an "artisan" since 2016.
I use Laravel and Filament to create excellent, scalable and secure applications.
I would like to give my contribute to this awesome Open Source project that is Laravel!

[macropay-solutions]

Hello,

We are a team of enthusiasts that explore uncharted areas to create better unthinkable solutions for the common situations like:

• eloquent API query language and interpreter for filtering and aggregating on list,
• bug fixes for laravel's uncovered corner cases
• and many more CRUD features not implemented in laravel.

Suggestions are always welcome.