awesome-laravel-professionals [WIP]

Usually, we always fall into Laravel through the framework looking front a list of curated packages for the framework. I would like to change the perspective and present the Professionals that bring those packages alive. I'm taking this approach to remember to all of us that those amazing professionals are still humans like us, but with a resilient spirit and an amazing vision. GitHub Accounts linked to the Name. Just my top 3 package selections.

The Framework

• Taylor Otwell 🇺🇸 - The Creator. He starts the revolution. Thanks, Space Pilgrim.
  • I discovered some cool interviews and podcasts with Taylor about Laravel history and some interesting insides, I think could be nice to save and share those:
    • Transistor Podcasting - Taylor Otwell: "PHP (and a cheap laptop) changed my life"
  • Projects:
    • Why not? The Laravel Framework itself.
    • Laravel Forge - Server Management solution provided by Laravel.
    • Laravel Vapor - Serverless deployment platform for Laravel powered by AWS.

Maintainers

• Nuno Maduro 🇵🇹 - Console Master 💻 - Respect 🙅🏽‍. One of (...but) my favorite Artisans out there. Working on the Laravel Core, Forge, and, Vapor. You should check these packages by Nuno: PEST, Laravel Zero, and PHP Insights.
• Mohamed Said 🇪🇬 - Queue Master 💻 - Related to almost all Laravel first-party Packages. Mohamed I guess is the most knowledgeable about the Laravel Queues module, you should check all of his work and educational content (Laravel Queues in Action).
• Dries Vints 🇧🇪 - Related to almost all Laravel first-party Packages.
• Mior Muhammad Zaki 🇲🇾 - Related to Laravel Scout, Nova and the Framework. VILT and TALL stacks.
• Claudio Dekker 🇳🇱 - Related to VILT Stack, Inertia.
• James Brooks 🇬🇧 - Related to Envoyer and Forge project from Laravel. Top Package: Cachet

Stack Breakers

• Jonathan Reinink 🇺🇸 - Did you know the VILT Stack? This man it's the responsible.
• Caleb Porzio 🇺🇸 - Did you know the TALL Stack? This man it's the responsible. He also it's the creator of Alpine.js.

Laravel Products

• David Hemphill 🇺🇸 - Co-creator of Laravel Nova. If you don't know about this product, you should. Trust me.

The Community

Packages Experts

• Freek Van der Herten 🇧🇪 - The Leader behind Spatie, the most package creator for the Laravel Framework.
• Marcel Porcio 🇩🇪 - The main developer behind BeyondCo. BeyondCo it's the major creator of IDE and Visual Tools for Developers.
• Barry vd. Heuvel 🇳🇱 - Front Laravel CORS to Laravel IDE, debuggers, and more. He is one of the best friends of any Laravel/PHP developer.

Less than 5 Packages

• Frank de Jonge 🇳🇱 - EventSaucePHP
• Ryan Chandler 🇬🇧 -
• Anthony Rappa 🇺🇸 - A LOT of resources for Laravel Education and some Cool (And Useful packages). Top GitHub Developer from New York.

Not Laravel, but you should Know those people :) PHP

• Jordi Boggiano 🇨🇭 - Do you know Composer? Yes, he put a lot of code there.

New Talents

• Francisco Madeira - He just appears to be like the next generation Artisan. He's working with Nuno Maduro in Termwind. He's also the responsible for the integration of i18n between Laravel and Vue with laravel-vue-i18n.