The Laravel Podcast is brought to you by Tighten, your friendly neighborhood Laravel experts. Check us out at tighten.com and also by other sponsors you will hear about later in the episode. In this episode, Matt Stauffer sits down with Wendell Adriel, senior software engineer on the Laravel team, to trace his path from a small town in Brazil to working on open source full time.They dig into Maestro, the new orchestration system that makes Laravel's React, Vue, and Livewire starter kits buildable from a single layered source of truth, plus the new Vite font plugin that pulls Google and Bunny fonts local automatically.Wendell also shares a candid story about persistence — six-plus applications, a direct email to Taylor, and finally landing the job nine years in the making. Matt Stauffer on X - https://x.com/mattstaufferWendell Adriel on X - https://x.com/wendell_adrielWendell on GitHub - https://github.com/WendellAdrielWendell’s Website - https://wendelladriel.comPrince of Persia Rotoscoping Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbbX_Mq-gdgLaravel Twitter - https://twitter.com/laravelphpLaravel Website - https://laravel.com/Tighten Website - https://tighten.com/Suggestion Box - https://suggest.gg/laravelpodcast----- Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten - https://tighten.com/Big thanks to the companies that support the show:Honeybadger - https://www.honeybadger.io/for/laravel/Laravel - Laracon US and Laravel CloudLaracon AU - https://laracon.au