Great People

Branko Ajzele

Branko is a Senior Web Application Developer. His prime development skills are recognized in OOP PHP systems like Zend Framework and Magento ecommerce platform. Most of his work is related to development and launch of ecommerce stores powered by Magento. He often blogs on ActiveCodeline.com about his work. Branko likes sharing his thoughts and code trough articles, modules and plugins with the open source community. He strives to be the best in what he does and is always hungry for more knowledge.

Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic is an internet marketing professional from Osijek, Croatia. He is one of the ~500 certified inbound marketing professionals in the world (via Inbound Marketing University).

Toni has years of experience with all of the inbound and some of the outbound marketing channels, including SEO, SEM, and SMM.

He is an experienced blogger in both Croatian and English language, with his personal blog being one of the most influential and award winning blogs in the region of ex Yugoslavia. He also appears as a guest blogger at some of the well known blogs in the world (including HubSpot’s blog).

Before joining Surgeworks, Toni was working as a freelance internet marketing consultant. He was a speaker at many national and international conferences including BlogOpen, Prodaja 2.0 (Sales 2.0 in Croatia) and BarCamp Zagreb.

Besides his marketing knowledge and experience, Toni also has lots of technical knowladge and experience with HTML & CSS and some of the well known CMSs including WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and more.

Tomislav Bilic

Tomislav Bilic is a senior developer with extensive experience in developing online stores. He has developed web stores in multiple PHP frameworks, including osCommerce, CRE Loaded and Magento. He also has experience developing Wordpress-based web sites. Before joining the Surgeworks team, Tomislav owned and operated Escape Ltd., a Croatian company that specialized in web site and online storefront development.

At Surgeworks, Tomislav leads the eCommerce Business Unit. Tomislav’s focus on close interaction with the client helps him to understand their needs and develop ideal solutions for them. He is experienced in handling all aspects of a project, from the initial design, on to development, user acceptance testing, marketing and search engine optimization (SEO).

Horea Burca

Horea is a Senior Adobe Flash/AS developer with extensive experience in building complex applications that seamlessly integrate with Rails, PHP, JS, Zend, Wordpress or Magento back-ends.

Renato Carvalho

Renato Carvalho is a visual and interface designer with over 7 years of experience. Although still young, Renato is passionate for his work and is always trying to meet his clients satisfaction and needs. He did his undergraduate studies in Technology of Systems for the Internet. His specialities are interaction and visual design, accessibility, SEO, client-side coding (XHTM, CSS, Javascript).

Prior to joining Surgeworks, Renato worked for Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, a Brazilian government agency. He also developed a variety of work for multiple private clients such as: Brazilian Ministry of Health, Brazilian Ministry of Tourism, WWF, Caixa, FURNAS and Brasil Telecom.

Renato is very demanding with himself; thus, he is always searching for new challenges. Moreover, he never stops upgrading his knowledge and studying is part of his routine..

Among the various interests, Renato enjoys reading, listening to good music, photographing and meeting his friends.

Radu Cojocaru

Radu Cojocaru is a software engineer from Romania with 7 years of professional experience. He is a detail-oriented person who loves challenges and finding solutions to unique problems. Radu started programming on Windows but switched to Mac, becoming a MacBook user and Apple fan.

At Surgeworks, Radu started as a senior WordPress developer, and is now a Ruby (Rails, Rhodes) and iPhone SDK developer with a great skill set. His versatility makes him a perfect fit in cross-technology projects, such as iPhone applications that rely on external data sources. He communicates directly with clients to ensure their requirements are well understood and executed.

Jordan Curzon

Jordan has been using computers in one form or another since birth, and has been developing software professionally for the last five years. He has experience with many different technologies, including Ruby on Rails, Perl, Java, and MySQL databases.

During his college years, Jordan worked for the Brigham Young University IT department, developing infrastructure management applications and improving network operations. He has also worked for Novell, Inc. and served as IT Manager and part-time developer for Construction Capital Source, a construction lending firm. Jordan received a bachelors degree in Information Technology from Brigham Young University.

At Surgeworks, Jordan has developed a number of web applications and web services in Ruby on Rails, as well as rich client applications in the Ext.js Javascript framework. He is a very efficient coder who knows what customers want and delivers it promptly, allowing customers to be involved in the feedback process and keep an eye on the their projects’ progress.

Mauro Dalu

Mauro Dalu is a software architect with over 10 years of experience based in Rome, Italy. He began his tech career as a web designer and Mac system administrator. Mauro is an Apple fan and has an impressive range of skills, knowing something of every Pro niche from 2D and 3D design to music and video post-production, to web development with open source frameworks. Mauro has an intuitive knack for usability and design, and is a great communicator with a special skill for identifying customers’ needs. A compulsive designer, he has made it a constant goal not to suggest to the customer any solution that he would not use himself.

As Surgeworks’ Mobile Practice Manager, Mauro manages a team of iPhone and Rhodes developers based in Europe and India. He is creative and agile in his approach to his daily work, and tries to maintain a direct and deep involvement with his team, which he finds to be a critical factor for success in remote development.

Jeffry Degrande

Jeffry Degrande is a Senior Web Applications Developer. At Surgeworks, he dedicates to WordPress and Rails projects with passion and energy. Jeffry is a man of many talents: there’s hardly a programming language he hasn’t played with and a challenge he won’t take on.

Marcus Derencius

Marcus Derencius fell in love with the Internet around 1994 and since then has become a passionate web developer. He has over 12 years of professional experience with technologies like ASP, Perl, PHP and most recently, Ruby.

Marcus’ natural curiosity also caused Linux to win a place in his heart, and for the last 10 years he has been lovingly caring for Debians, Red Hats, Ubuntus and CentOSes.

Being open to different experiences, Marcus has worked for a wide variety of companies, from startups to large enterprises, where he has gained a strong understanding of various software utilities, content management, software projects estimation and planning, and intranets. He recently obtained certification in Function Point Analysis.

At Surgeworks, Marcus has been involved in Ruby on Rails development and deployment, and now manages the Brazilian team, helping coordinate projects and providing orientation and leadership to other team members.

Outside of computers, Marcus enjoys being outdoors with his family and friends, and playing water sports.

Monica Geana

Monica is a psychologist in the process of obtaining a master degree in psychoanalysis. In Romania she works as PR & Marketing manager for a restaurant. Monica joined Surgeworks in 2007 as a researcher, since then she has been involved in projects requiring her contribution as a translator, copywriter or her involvement in online marketing activities.

In her spare time, if any, she likes to read classic Russian and French literature and spend time with friends.

Sergei Inyushkin

Sergei Inyushkin has been programming since he was 17. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional who has taught courses in MS development in his native country of Russia. As a freelancer managing a team of developers, Sergei’s team was ranked in the top 50 among nearly 200,000 programming service providers throughout the world on RentACoder.com. He has contributed to approximately 50 different projects in various fields, including social networking applications, investment and finance, healthcare, aviation, metallurgy and entertainment.

Sergei has been a member of the Surgeworks team since August of 2007. Today he is a Senior iPhone OpenGL ES developer. He’s the man to call when you want to do something the other guys say can’t be done with the iPhone SDK.

Hrvoje Jurisic

Hrvoje fell in love with graphic design more then a decade ago. Since then, constantly learning, he has developed his skills to be able to provide both graphic and web design services. Before joining Surgeworks, Hrvoje was working at print design studio as a graphic designer. At the same time, he was providing freelance web design and development services, specializing in Wordpress themes development.

When not working, Hrvoje enjoys reading comic books, watching movies or playing soccer.

Ivan Kalaica

Ivan Kalaica is a Senior iPhone SDK developer based in Croatia. He has studied the iPhone SDK ins and outs and when he’s not busy developing apps for our customers, he’s always busy learning new techniques and unveiling every mystery of Apple’s iPhone development environment. He’s a perfectionist and always delivers superb work.

Cassio Marques

Cassio Marques is a Brazilian developer who loves to develop software and solve intricate problems. His main interests are web development, algorithms and programming languages.

He has professional experience with many different programming languages, including C and C++, Java, Javascript and Ruby. Also, he has a bachelors degree in Scientific Computing, from Universidade de Taubaté. He writes regularly at cassiomarques.wordpress.com

At Surgeworks he is part of the Brazilian Ruby on Rails team.

He loves open source and try to help as much as possible, creating new libraries or writing documentation. When not sitting in front of a computer, Cássio can be found reading books or riding his skateboard.

Brad Midgley

Brad Midgley is a software engineer with 15 years of experience in systems and web programming. He earned BS and MS degrees in Computer Science, from the University of Utah and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, respectively.

Brad’s original experience with web applications focused on Java. The challenges of choosing the right components in an application stack and working with specific technologies like web standards and Javascript have transferred well into the Ruby on Rails environment. The downsides of working with Java served as great motivators to work with a more agile framework like Rails. Brad’s interests in technology include some diverse areas. He works with the Bluez team on implementing Bluetooth under Linux and enjoys writing software of all kinds for small computers.

Brad has written a course management application in Rails, together with a small team under his management. This application is used by the Utah Education Network to organize technology curricula for Utah’s public school teachers. Brad has since used Rails to help local companies quickly build and adapt their applications on the web. These include tailoring a highly customized ordering system for a Utah company’s retail operations and helping a large bank to manage and audit its warehouse metadata.

Tomas Novoselic

Tomas Novoselić is a senior web developer with great experience in developing web applications ranging from small web sites to large scale Enterprise Resource Planning systems. At Surgeworks, he is a PHP/Zend expert dedicated to ecommerce stores based on the Magento platform.

Domagoj Potkoc

Domagoj Potkoc is a Web Application developer with extensive experience in developing online stores. He has developed web stores in multiple PHP frameworks, including osCommerce, CRE Loaded, Zen Cart and Magento. Before joining the Surgeworks team, Domagoj worked more then two years in Escape Ltd., a Croatian company that specialized in web site and online store development.

Zeljko Prsa

Željko started his “love affair” with web design back in the late nineties and followed the ever changing demands and expectations of internet trends as a Web Designer and Web Design teacher for three years (2003-2006). There’s probably nothing more challenging as over 500 students with “i didn’t expect this” questions that can motivate you to stay on top of the tidal wave in this profession.

Before he joined the Surgeworks European eCommerce Business Unit in 2008 he was employed in a media agency as a senior Web Designer and Project Manager. Teaching, working with constantly learning new stuff was a daily routine and passion back then as it is now even after dozens of sites designed, coded and maintained.

Aron Stanic

Aron Stanic is our first point of contact for many new customers, working closely with our European eCommerce Business Unit. If you’re looking to launch an online store for your business, chances are your relationship with Surgeworks will start with Aron.

He has extensive experience in customer relationship management, having gained invaluable experience working in diverse environments (business incubator for start-up entrepreneurs, an international CRM company, center for entrepreneurship) all of which helped him hone his communication and interpersonal skills.

His experience in working with businesses from different industries helps us understand your needs better to be able to come up with the best solution. He’ll make sure you’re taken care of – even if we can’t help you (which does happen on a rare occasion), you’ll get a recommendation on the best course of action.

Vedran Subotic

Vedran Subotic is a web developer specialized in PHP-MySQL and Zend technology.

Three years ago he started developing custom web applications as a freelancer. After that he was an in-house web developer for a Swiss company which developed Zend Framework based web and wap portals and also Mobile applications based on Java technology.

Vedran likes free source technology and team play. At Surgeworks he is part of the European eCommerce Businesss Unit.

Rafael Torales

Rafael Torales is a Brazilian Designer who has been designing vibrant and detailed websites professionally for over seven years. While his experience extends to many facets of graphic design, he has focused his work in online projects.

The Arts have been his passion since he was a kid. After years immersed in design, he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising from the University Center of Brasilia. Rafael does not have a set style, he is constantly trying to further his expertise in design and is committed to exceeding his customer’s expectations. Although creativity is one of the most important parts of his work, webstandards and usability aspects are always in his mind.

Nowadays, when not reclined in front of the computer, he enjoys spending time learning to surf on Australian beaches where he now lives.

Nicole Turiano

Nicole is our office manager for Surgeworks. Her greatest skills are well suited to Surgeworks as they have evolved of her extensive experience in customer relations and business administration. She is known for her memorization skills and has therefore become the “wheels” of our operation, helping to keep track of everything, and after everyone.

Ivan Weiler

Ivan Weiler is a Project Manager at Surgeworks’ eCommerce Business Unit.

Before joining Surgeworks he had years of web programing experience in Studio AT in Osijek. He worked on a wide range of different projects with different platforms. His main specialties are PHP / MySQL web application development and Flash development.

Ivan has a vast experience in developing modern CMS solutions for news portals and since joining Surgeworks he gained tons of experience in developing Magento online stores.

In his free time, Ivan enjoys playing with his WII and hanging out with his better half.