Me

I write the code, and I have led the teams that write it.

Mehdi Mekouar — freelance Laravel and Vue JS developer, based in Marrakech. 10+ years of technical experience and 28 projects delivered across education, healthcare, associations and e-commerce.

Mehdi Mekouar

I take a project from the first scoping call to the server it runs on: the data model, the interface, the admin your staff actually work in, the deployment and the handover. Most of it is Laravel, with Livewire and Vue JS on the front, Filament where an admin panel earns its keep, and Capacitor when the same codebase has to reach iOS and Android as well as the web.

I have also run the other side of it. At Digiton I was CTO — architecture, testing standards, code review, CI/CD, and coaching a team through all four. At the Ihyae Foundation I was the developer and the project manager on the same projects. That is why working with me is one person to deal with and still a scoped, staged, documented build.

The path here is not a straight line, and I would rather explain it than hide it. I ran the technical side of the Medicine and Pharmacy College of Marrakesh from 2001, spent the ten years after that in sales and team management — meetings, campaigns, keynotes, training people — and came back to development full time in 2022. That decade is where the client-facing half of this job came from: scoping a brief, running a room, saying no to something that will not work. It is also why I count 10+ years of technical experience rather than counting from 2001.

Based in Marrakech. Remote for clients in Switzerland, Canada and the United States, on site in Morocco, and I work in English, French and Arabic. Available now, for full-time, contract or freelance work.

10+ years experience
28 projects delivered

What I build with

Laravel Livewire Vue JS Alpine JS Filament Tailwind PHP MySQL JavaScript Capacitor Statamic WordPress Firebase AI integration REST APIs Git & GitHub CI/CD Linux hosting Multilingual & RTL SEO Figma to code

Where the work was done

  1. 2024 – 2025 · Fez, Morocco

    Chief Technology Officer

    Digiton

    Architecture, standards and the team at a software company delivering client projects on a monthly cadence. I rebuilt the internal starter kit and moved deployment onto GitHub Actions, introduced structured workflows, testing standards and code review and coached the team through them, designed the shared-package hosting architecture the company's projects run on, and led the reusable e-learning platform most of its client work is now built from.

    Hosting inode usage down 40%, deferring an upgrade by years. Throughput up to two or three completed projects a month.

    Laravel Livewire Filament Alpine JS CI/CD Team leadership
  2. 2022 – 2024 · Marrakech, Morocco

    Full Stack Developer & Project Manager

    Ihyae Foundation

    Developer and project manager for a foundation that publishes and teaches at scale. I built its sites and an e-commerce platform with a full sales funnel for book distribution, and the educational tools behind the online programme — classes, users, transactions. I also ran the SEO and the ad campaigns, and produced the video and marketing content that grew the audience for it.

    Laravel Vue JS WordPress REST APIs MySQL SEO
  3. 2012 – 2022 · Marrakech, Morocco

    Senior Manager

    Forever Living Products

    Ten years in sales and team management. I led meetings and prospecting, spoke at the company's major events, designed multi-platform campaigns across Facebook, WhatsApp and email, and built the training material and video presentations the team was developed on.

    Not development work — and where the client-facing half of this job was learned.

    Team building Coaching Campaigns Public speaking
  4. 2001 – 2012 · Marrakech, Morocco

    Technical Manager

    Medicine and Pharmacy College of Marrakesh

    The technical side of a medical school. I produced educational medical documentaries and built the intranet staff used for internal communication and event management, trained doctors on Adobe and Microsoft tools, standardised student data so it could be integrated across systems, and oversaw the maintenance of medical and lab equipment along with the acquisitions behind it.

    Web development Video production Data Training

Tell me what you are building — or send me the role.

A short description is enough to start. You will get a straight answer on whether I am the right person for it.

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