Building Laravel Mauritius. The Artisan of the Day Is Percy Mamedy.
Percy Mamedy has spent more than a decade shaping the PHP ecosystem in Mauritius.
Today, he is known as both a seasoned software engineer and the organizer behind Laravel Moris, a community he helped create after realizing how few developers on the East African island knew the framework that would eventually define his career.
Discovering Laravel: A Chance Google Search That Changed Everything
Percy discovered Laravel in 2013 while searching for a framework that could support a demanding project. The team had been evaluating several PHP options, none of which were convincing, and found that the framework they had been using wouldn’t cut it.
After a simple search for the best PHP framework available, Laravel appeared at the top of the results. Percy tried it and immediately understood why. He recalls being struck by the clarity of the syntax and the breadth of features that came built in. The contrast with the tools he had used before was significant enough to push him to rethink his workflow entirely.
“When I started, I was just blown away by how simple, amazing, and full of features the framework was. It blew my mind: the community, the resources it had, it was such an amazing framework,” he said.
Laravel helped reshape Percy’s approach to architecture, testing, and overall coding discipline. The ecosystem gave him access to practices and patterns that he had not encountered earlier in his career.
Why Mauritius Needed a Laravel Community
The power of Laravel was obvious to Percy, but in Mauritius, the developer community was small, and few people were aware of its potential. He believed the island needed a space where developers could experiment, learn, and build together. That conviction is what led him to create Laravel Moris.
The community started small but gained traction quickly. Regular meetups gave local developers a place to exchange ideas and get hands-on exposure to modern Laravel techniques. Today, the group stands as one of the most active developer communities on the island. “We have regular meetups, and I love seeing developers showing up and coming to discover this amazing work.”
Growth Through Community Leadership
Leading Laravel Moris has allowed Percy to meet and collaborate with people he would never have crossed paths with otherwise. “I’m just super happy and grateful to all the amazing people who are building this framework, and being involved in the community as a leader myself has allowed me to meet and collaborate with some incredible people,” he said.
He has attended multiple Laracons and points to those experiences as deeply influential. The energy of those events, combined with the exposure to developers from across the world, reinforced the sense that Laravel had become part of a global movement. Bringing that spirit back home helped elevate the local community further.
Percy’s own technical growth mirrors this evolution. He has used Laravel for a decade and has continued to refine his work through the tools and ideas he encountered along the way. The framework became a key factor in his professional development and opened a path he had not originally imagined for himself.
“I’ve grown as a developer with Laravel, and working with Laravel for the past decade or so has been such a ride, and just the most amazing turning point for my career that I could have ever imagined.”
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