about

One developer who takes shipping personally.

I'm Toni Ilić — a senior software developer with 10+ years of building production systems. AgiCAD is my studio. When you hire it, you hire me: the person who writes the proposal, writes the code, and answers your email.

I started it because most software projects fail in predictable ways — vague scopes, junior teams behind senior rates, and months of "progress" with nothing to click. Working with one experienced developer end to end removes the account-manager layer, the hand-offs, and the telephone game between you and the person actually building your product.

I work with startup founders and product teams who have something real on the line. That means I'd rather tell you "don't build this yet" than bill you for it — the relationships that come back are worth more than the invoices that don't.

agicad.config.tsread-only
export const principles = {
  builder:     "one senior developer",
  demos:       "weekly, clickable",
  scope:       "fixed & in writing",
  jargon:      false,
  surprises:   false,  // especially on invoices
  handover:    "docs your next hire will thank me for",
};

02 — how I operate

The rules I don't break.

[01]

Plain words, always

Proposals, updates, and documentation in language a non-engineer can read. If I can't explain it simply, I don't understand it well enough.

[02]

Show, don't tell

Every week ends with software you can click. Status meetings without a running build are theater — I don't do theater.

[03]

Say no early

If a feature, a deadline, or a whole project is a bad idea, you'll hear it from me in week one — not discover it in month four.

[04]

Build for the next team

Clean code, real tests, honest docs. Success is your future in-house team inheriting my work without cursing my name.

03 — where I've done it

Ten years of shipping, end to end.

2024 – 2026Full Stack Developer · Contractor · Remote

PersonalHub

  • Built and maintained Laravel backends — REST APIs, data modelling, and end-to-end feature delivery.
  • Developed Vue 3 single-page interfaces and reusable components on top of those APIs.
  • Delivered custom WordPress sites and plugins with custom post types, fields, and ACF integrations.
  • Designed and shipped responsive landing pages from Figma to production.
2020 – 2023Full Stack Developer · Contractor · Remote

myBrixx

  • Delivered features across multiple Symfony 5/6 applications — UI/UX improvements and new functionality.
  • Built complete WordPress sites with custom post types, fields, and ACF integrations.
  • Developed custom WooCommerce plugins, including a Cart Validation Rules engine with modular architecture.
  • Mentored mid-level developers and contributed to technical direction.
2019 – 2020Full Stack Developer · Remote

Stride Energy

  • Full-stack development on a Symfony 4/5 CRM — backend APIs and frontend (RiotJS, jQuery, vanilla JS).
  • Integrated third-party APIs and implemented JWT-based authentication.
  • Owned request/response flows, data modelling, and end-to-end feature delivery.
2018 – 2019Web Developer · Rijeka, Croatia

Studio Artlan

  • Maintained and extended high-traffic e-commerce sites on eZ Publish and AngularJS.
  • Contributed new features to a Laravel 5-based sales aggregator.
2016Lead Full Stack Developer · Freelance

Ticket Sales Startup

  • Led end-to-end development of a ticket sales system from requirements through delivery.
  • Built third-party sign-in, dashboards, ticket inventory/validation, order reservation, payment flows, and post-checkout account creation.
  • Architected for modularity and extensibility from the ground up.
2015 – 2016Backend PHP Developer · Zagreb, Croatia

Burza

  • Built and maintained PHP applications for high-traffic e-commerce.
  • Delivered modular, extensible functionality backed by automated tests.
2014PHP Developer · Freelance

Freelance

  • Custom Drupal and WordPress plugin development.
  • Small-to-mid sized web applications with Laravel 4.

education

Electro-Industrial High School — Electro Mechanic

Rijeka, Croatia · 2009

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