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 👇

[sohelrana820]

Hi, This is Sohel Rana. I am a Lead Software Engineer. I have been using Larvel for 5/6 years. I really love the framework and its awesome community. Hats off guys!

[aschmelyun]

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Andrew, a full-stack developer from Florida 🌴 where I currently work as an instructor at Laracasts. Before that, I regularly published tutorials around PHP and Laravel on YouTube. In my free time you'll catch me building some kind of side project or package, or publishing articles on my blog.

I owe a large part of my career to Laravel and have been using it since the release of version 4!

[croustibat]

Hello Everyone,

I'm Baptiste Bouillot, Dernier Cri's CTO from Nantes, France.

I'm a backend developer for 15 years with mostly PHP. I used to build apps with Code Igniter, then Kohana now with Laravel \o/

[abrzzzz]

Hi, my name is Ali Barzegar, I'm from Iran
BackEnd developer specially PHP, I know a bit Front-End though,

I also built WPINT, A WordPress plugin framework based on the Laravel's core concepts which helps developers massively on their path :)

This is my LinkedIn profile

[shaedrich]

Sounds like a great idea! 👍🏻 Is there a reason, you put the "tags" in your README.md and not as topics?

[zaghadon]

Not gonna lie, this is massively nice 🔥

[abrzzzz]

Sounds like a great idea! 👍🏻 Is there a reason, you put the "tags" in your README.md and not as topics?

Thanks, There is no reason, the latest tag will be shown in the README.md file and topics will be added

[abrzzzz]

Not gonna lie, this is massively nice 🔥

Thank you

[Mrbeyond]

Hi!

I am Beyond from 🇳🇬

I have been using Laravel extensively since last quarter of 2019

I am honoured to be here.

[freekmurze]

Hey everybody, I'm Freek from Belgium 🇧🇪

Together with my team, I've built a nice collection of free open source packages. We've also built Mailcoach, a self hosted solution to send newsletters.

If you like what Spatie does for the community, consider sponsoring us on GitHub.

Outside of Spatie, I also blog on Laravel and PHP development. Together with my buddy @mattiasgeniar I run Oh Dear, an uptime SaaS, that does not only monitor your homepage, but every page of your site. And together with @driesvints I organise the Full Stack Europe conference.

Hope to meet you all someday at a conference!

[danharrin]

I think every Laravel dev has used a Spatie package in one of their projects at some point. Keep the stream flowing! ❤️

[vrajroham]

@freekmurze You are awesome! As a developer and also in person ❤️ I'll never forget our trip to Taj Mahal in India 🇮🇳

[freekmurze]

That was a pretty awesome trip indeed! Hope we can meet again at a future Laracon India 😄

[calebporzio]

Hey There 👋,

I'm Caleb Porzio (Creator of Laravel Livewire).

I've been in love with Laravel since 4.0

Such a beautiful piece of software and community. I feel so lucky to be a part of it!

[zaghadon]

You're the man mate ✌️

[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.

[abrahampe]

Hi, I am a brazilian programmer since Qbasic, I love coding with Laravel! I am working now at a fleet management based on the framework

[KawsarAhmad43]

🚀 Loving Laravel! 🌟✨

Working with the Laravel framework has been an absolute joy! 😍 It's enriched my coding experience and made development a breeze. The documentation is user-friendly, making it easy to navigate and implement functionalities. 💪

Projects like Soccer-Ginie ⚽, LinkWizard 🔗, ProjectShirley 🌸, moto-buddy-backend 🏍️, and Project-Alpha-Flat-Booking 🏢 , Association Portal 🏢 have allowed me to explore Laravel's power and flexibility. 💼

Looking forward to contributing to the open-source community and building upon Laravel's greatness. Let's grow together! 🌱

Happy coding! 💻

[Muhammad-Sarfaraz]

Hey there, I'm Sarfaraz 👋.

🏔 I spend my days working with Laravel. My nights are spent building the AvatarPHP and working on my various open source projects. Some of the packages are, Error, Skeleton, Auth, Glide

[patrickbrouwers]

Hey!

I'm Patrick, Laravel developer at Maatwebsite 🇳🇱 (Maastricht area). Been using Laravel since the 4.0 beta days. Have been maintaining Laravel Excel since my first days in Laravel (6 years and counting). Still loving the ecosystem and community and never a doubt in my mind what to use on a work- or sideproject.

I'm grateful to be part of this amazing community! Wish you all the best!

[simonhamp]

Big up the Brouwers!

[danharrin]

Hey all! 👋

I'm Dan, I've been using Laravel since ~5.2. I am based in Essex, UK, but most of us prefer to just say "London".

My main focus over the past few months is pushing the limits of the TALL stack, which has really been a game-changer for me. 🦒

I also manage the Discord community for Laravel Livewire.

When I'm not doing freelance work, my main side project at the moment is a secure .env sharing tool, Envault, which is my way of giving back to the community.

I hope to dive even deeper into the Laravel ecosystem, as well as starting to blog stuff soon too.

❤️ this community, continue to prove the PHP skeptics wrong! 😏

[keljtanoski]

Hi everyone!

My name is Kostadin Keljtanoski (Certified Laravel Developer). I am a Senior Full Stack Developer from North Macedonia.
I've been using Laravel since v4.
I am part of the Laravel - Lang team -> awesome team.

[mishavantol]

👋 Hi all,
I'm Misha van Tol, a senior backend developer working at a digital agency (Synetic) in Haarlem, the Netherlands.

[zaghadon]

Welcome Misha, how long have you been writing Laravel?

[mishavantol]

Hi @zaghadon, I've been developing in PHP for over 15 years, the last three years using Laravel. But I also work with Symfony and Drupal.

[zaghadon]

Fantastic run Mish @mishavantol, myself I've been developing in PHP for 7 years and using Laravel since 2019. I've used Symfony library once and the one time I used CodeIgniter, I had to convince the team to migrate the entire codebase to Laravel 😅.

Do you write a blog, are you on Twitter, where do you hangout so I can follow you.

[thearyanahmed]

Hello, I'm Aryan. A fullstack from Bangladesh
🇧🇩
Have been working with laravel since version 4.1.
Mainly work with laravel and lumen for the back end.

Great to see all the artisans here. Greetings to all

[Hasnayeen]

Hi fellow 🇧🇩 laravel artisan

[thearyanahmed]

Hello Hasnayeen 👋

[thurstanjb]

Hi 👋,
I’m Tj, a Webdev from the uk. Been using Laravel for a good few years and it’s awesome! Currently converting sites from the arc into modern platforms.
Laravel has a fantastic community and thanks for all the dedication.

[keshari-nandan]

Hi everyone, I am Keshari Nandan from India.

I work as PHP/Laravel Developer. I am working on Laravel since the begning of my career.
I love working with Laravel.

Thank you Laravel & community.

[amir9480]

Hi

My name is Amir and I'm from Iran.
I using Laravel since v5.3 and Using vscode as my code editor so I created a VSCode extension for Laravel developers.

I believe @taylorotwell is writing the cleanest codes ever and when I saw his commenting style I figured out Laravel is the exact framework I should use for my project.

[shaedrich]

Gandalf the Grey would be equally excited about pipes 😉

[imanghafoori1]

Hello everyone,
I am Iman, from Iran.
Introduced to laravel by Jeffry Way, Using it since version v4.0
Maintaining a handful of third-party laravel packages, including:

• laravel widgetize
• laravel heyman
• laravel microscope
• laravel master pass
• laravel smart facades

and a handful of other ones at https://github.com/imanghafoori1?tab=repositories

and contributing to the core when I get the chance.
Also, teach laravel (Mid to advanced level) in non-English languages as video tuts

[bbloom]

Hello, I am Bob Bloom, from just north of Toronto, Canada.
Artisan since 4.0.
Working on LaSalle Software based on Laravel.
Co-organizer of local meetup groups including Laravel Toronto

[gentcys]

Hey guys!

I'm Cong Chen from China.

I've used Laravel about 5 years. It makes me programming happier!

I haven't even made a crucial contribution.

[voidgraphics]

Bam! There's at least a few other Belgians in here. 😄

Adrien from @whitecube, we have a few open source projects but we're best known for our flexible-content field for Laravel Nova.

As for me personally well Laravel was the first framework I ever learned and I can't lie, I owe my whole career to @JeffreyWay. Can't say enough good things about Laracasts.

[nmokkenstorm]

Hey Artisans,

My name is Niels, Full Stack developer based in the Netherlands, but also travelling a lot. I'm good at starting Laravel packages and not finishing them. I've been working with the framework since 5.2 or so, and have been doing some contributions over the past year.

I run a small web agency, and occasionally tweet things.

[simonhamp]

Hi folks,

Just want to say thanks to all of you for being such a great community!

Let’s keep making it better, supporting each other, helping and sharing and having a blast!

Looking forward to meeting more of you soon.
Simon, London

[simonhamp]

I keep seeing occasional updates from this thread, so I can back and realised it started almost 4 years ago! That's insane.

Anyway, a quick update now I'm here.

I am living in Gran Canaria now (a part of Spain that's not part of Spain), and contracting as a developer and fractional CTO.

Last year I started NativePHP with @mpociot which is exciting.

On the theme of supporting each other, I'm running Laradir and contributing little bits back to Laravel, and more.

Really glad to have met some of you IRL over the last few years. Would love to meet more in 2024! Let's connect!

[zaghadon]

Mind if I call you Simon Champ 🏆? That's an impressive 4 years run Champ, I must Admit NativePHP is da beast. Thanks for your contributions so far, would like to tell you about a tool I'm architecting which could hold enormous potential for a collaboration.

[mattkingshott]

Hey there!

I'm Matt, and I've been developing Laravel apps and writing about them since v4.

[Lloople]

Hello everyone 👋,

I'm David from Girona, Catalonia (currently Spain)

I work at GNA Hotel Solutions as a Back-End developer but I'm learning some Vue too. I've been using Laravel since 4.2 at my previous job.

Nice to meet you all, let's hope this discussion section bring some new goodies to the framework 🙂

[bigint]

Hey hey, I'm from India

Creator and maintainer of open-source platform https://taskord.com (Made with ❤️ in Laravel)

[mhcrocky]

ohh.. you?

[CodingwithRK]

👋Hi Deris
I'm Raj Kumar (CodingwithRK)
I'm a big fan and most adducted to Laravel, I've been using it for 1 year but I am learning more.

codingwithrk.com This is my website built in Laravel, Livewire and also I am implementing the Filament Admin Panel

Thank you ❤️ for this awesome framework in the PHP environment, I am eagerly waiting for NativePHP.

[elbaable]

Hello guys

I am Trayvon from San Francisco.

I am a Laravel developer(+5 years' experience).

Great to be one of you!