# Building Laravel Senegal. The Artisan of the Day Is Kheraba Diaby.

DevFeed: [Building Laravel Senegal. The Artisan of the Day Is Kheraba Diaby.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-laravel-senegal-the-artisan-of-the-day-is-kheraba-diaby-3595.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/building-laravel-senegal-the-artisan-of-the-day-is-kheraba-diaby>)

Author: Ana Tavares

Published: 2025-09-24T03:04:42Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [Laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/laravel.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Livewire](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/livewire.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bug.md>)

Tags: [africa](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/africa.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ecosystem.md>), [framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/framework.md>), [laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laravel.md>), [technologies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technologies.md>)

## AI overview

This developer profile follows Kheraba Diaby's journey from building a student resource application in plain PHP to adopting Laravel, and his work as a backend developer at the fintech company Alal Technologies. It also describes how he co-founded Laravel Senegal, a community that helps developers in Senegal connect, share knowledge, and strengthen the local technology ecosystem.

## Source excerpt

Kheraba Diaby, backend dev at Alal Technologies, founded Laravel Senegal to connect developers and grow the local Laravel community.