Our StoryWhen I founded Gerger, I had enough of management that intervenes instead of making it possible for me to work, company procedures that are written by drones with no heart or even a liver, policies that are specifically designed to kill the buzz around anything that may be remotely enjoyable to work on, office hours that start at dawn and end only when the boss leaves the building at midnight because this is the way he likes it, vacation days as if I am in prison and endless meetings that make me wish to have a seizure so that I can get out. I decided to throw away everything I’ve been thought about how a company is supposed to be and start building my own the way I dreamed it. At Gerger, there is no management. We are 17 colleagues who work together. We respect each others knowledge and intelligence and are willing to be subordinates when one of us has merits to lead. I cannot think of an instance where I said “Sorry, company policy.” We have no office hours. Anyone can enter the office or leave it at any time they like. We don’t count the days we work, why would we count the days we don’t work? We enjoy our time with friends and family without counting down the clock. Yesterday, we cut a meeting in the middle because some of us felt sleepy. That’s not all though. It only gets worse. Every week, we play basketball and soccer together. We play Age of Empires on Tuesdays and Counter on Fridays. We are very very spoiled. We only fly business or first class where available. Sorry, company policy. At Gerger, we hate the commonplace, the banal, the ordinary. The run-of-the-mill has no place here. At Gerger, we treat software as a form of art. We hire the best software artists. The very best. We challenge them, set them free and stay out of their way. At Gerger, we succeed. Yalım K. Gerger |
Our Team
Yalım K. Gerger That would be me. I am the Founder and President of Gerger. Being surrounded by great teammates makes my job incredibly easy and fun. If you'd like to follow my adventures please subscribe to my blog, my tumblelog or follow me on twitter. |
Orhan Türkoğlu Orhan is the first employee I hired. If you are embarking on a journey with a lot of unknowns ( read: starting a company ) you need someone that you can rely on to cover your back through fog, smoke and chaos. He is THE ONE. |
H. Kutay Çilingiroğlu Kutay never gives up. He thrives when he faces issues out of his comfort zone. He craves for challenge. When he can't solve a problem, he thinks deeper, learns more, works harder until he can. He never gives up. He never ever gives up. |
Aziz Ünsal Aziz is an artist, who improves everything he touches. He understands that no one needs permission to contribute and that's what I love most about him. |
Samet Başaran No matter how big, difficult, critical or urgent the problem is, when I hear Samet say "OK, I'll take care of it", I stop worrying about it. |
Serkan Kasapbaşı Serkan is an amazing software architect. In my book, a design not sanctioned by him is not complete yet. |
Uğur Koçak Uğur gets it. He is like Keanu Reeves in the first Matrix movie when he starts beating up the bad guys at the end. He sees the Matrix as it is. During design meetings, I sometimes catch him wondering what the hell we are arguing about when the solution is so obvious. |
Yüksel Karaman Specifically, stuff we blame him when something goes wrong includes but is not limited to Error Handling, API's, Import&Export routines, documentation of any sort and any kind of database performance bottleneck. I think he has solved the hardest coding problems in Formspider and did not get enough credit for them...until now. |
Mehmet Serdar Biçer This is a guy whose Twitter page says: Living is nothing without coding. I throw at him the hardest coding tasks and he looks at me like "Is that all you got?". |
Hasan Tatar Hasan is unique in a unique way. He is unusual in an unusual way. After all this time we've worked together, he still continues to surprise me, which is very surprising. Hasan, don't ever change. Don't you ever change. |
Onur Bayram Onur is the best, fastest and baddest Formspider developer. My project plans usually look like this: Give Onur an half baked spec and Formspider and stay out of his way. |
Korhan Şabanoğlu Korhan is genius, lazy, pragmatic and lucky. So send him to solve messy, complicated problems that no one can. He will find a way. |
Öskan Savlı Öskan is candid. You'd better listen to him. He is fearless. You'd better fear him. He is brutally right. You'd better accept it. Because there is nothing he can't do once he sets his mind to it. |
İbrahim Sandallı İbrahim enters comments to our bug tracking system that would pass as essays in scientific journals. He started working with us right out of school. After two years, I thanked him for teaching me so much. |
Yücel Ünlü He has one of those grins that only really brilliant people have on their faces when someone goes "How the hell did you do this?". I know it because I get to ask him the question a lot. |
Serdar Gökçen Serdar is the newest member of our team but watch him work with the rest of the gang and you would think that he's been around forever. With great technical and interpersonal skills, he made us instantly better. I can visualize him being the role model of our new hires for many years down the road. |
Aslı Gerger She is caring and compassionate. Even though she spends not more than an hour in the office every month, her presence can be felt in every little detail in it. She manages everything other than the software so that we can focus on the software. |