# Visual Basic, Mentoring, and Community Building. The Artisan of the Day Is Ibrahim Abotaleb.

DevFeed: [Visual Basic, Mentoring, and Community Building. The Artisan of the Day Is Ibrahim Abotaleb.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/visual-basic-mentoring-and-community-building-the-artisan-of-the-day-is-ibrahim-abotaleb-3985.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/visual-basic-mentoring-and-community-building-the-artisan-of-the-day-is-ibrahim-abotaleb>)

Author: Ana Tavares

Published: 2025-09-10T15:02:15Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/laravel.md>), [Livewire](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/livewire.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [Visual Basic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/visual-basic.md>), [C#](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/csharp.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>), [Vue.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vue.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [CodeIgniter](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/codeigniter.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [c-sharp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c-sharp.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laravel.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [vue](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vue.md>)

## AI overview

Ibrahim Abotaleb describes his journey from Visual Basic and C# to PHP and Laravel, where he has spent more than a decade building production applications. He discusses using Laravel with React or Vue on AWS, delivering systems that emphasize performance, security, scalability, and compliance, and sharing these lessons through Arabic-language teaching, articles, videos, and mentoring.

## Source excerpt

Ibrahim Abotaleb shares his journey from early days in Visual Basic to a decade of building with Laravel, and how he's giving back to the Arabic Laravel community through teaching and mentoring.