Lucas Giovanny has been immersed in PHP for most of his life. He wrote his first lines of code at 12 and became a professional in 2012. Over time, his interests shifted from shipping features to studying the deeper layers of software engineering.
Performance, architecture, maintainability, and how teams deliver at scale became his focus. That mindset eventually led him to leadership roles where he could guide engineering decisions more broadly.
Today, Lucas is a strong Laravel community builder and speaker, and an Engineering Team Lead at Worksome, where he works closely with both engineering and product teams. He spends his time shaping backend-heavy features, improving service reliability, and maintaining a codebase that scales with the product.
Discovering Laravel
Lucas first came across Laravel in 2019 while working at a security company in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The experience was eye-opening. “My first impression was how productive it felt: clear conventions, a strong ecosystem, and a developer experience that made it easy to build things ‘the right way’ without fighting the framework,” he recalls.
How Laravel Fits Into His Work
Laravel powers Worksome’s main application and internal web services. Lucas spends most days expanding backend APIs and evolving systems to handle growth.
His preferred stack combines Laravel, Vue.js, and Pest, plus PHPStan or Psalm when static analysis signals improvements.
For admin panels and internal tooling, he often chooses Filament or Livewire to ship faster without compromising quality.
Speaker, Educator, and Community Builder
He is also an active figure in the Laravel world. He has spoken at Laracon India, Laracon EU, Laravel Live UK, Laravel Live DK, FullStack Europe, and several community meetups, including PHP Portugal, Laravel Denmark, and PHP Barcelona.
He will return to Laracon India in 2026 with a talk titled Generics in PHP. ”I’ll focus on what ‘generics’ mean in practice for PHP developers today: how we can model stronger types, reduce duplication, and make APIs safer and easier to use, especially when working with collections, repositories, data transfer objects, and reusable abstractions. I also want to cover the gap between what we can express right now (via PHPDoc and static analysis) and what people hope to see natively in the language.”
Outside of the conference circuit, Lucas helps organize PHP and Laravel meetups in Portugal to keep local knowledge flowing and help developers connect with one another.
Advice for Developers
Lucas encourages developers to master the essentials, including testing, debugging, and communication. “That’s what scales your career. Also, share what you learn: talks, blog posts, mentoring, or meetups. It compounds fast, and it pulls opportunities your way.”
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