Activiti Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Activiti
Sabahattin K.
Last position:
Sole responsibility (design, development, infrastructure, operations) at Own project busik.ch
- Ride-sharing and bus platform, live and fully functional. Backend with Spring Boot 4.1 on Java 21, PostgreSQL with Flyway, and Testcontainers integration tests. Hosted in my own AWS account (ECS Fargate, ALB, ECR, IAM Least-Privilege) with CI/CD via GitHub Actions and OIDC federation without static credentials. Development fully AI-supported with Claude Code, including custom skills and project-specific memory. Spring Boot · Java 21 · PostgreSQL · Flyway · Docker · AWS ECS/ALB/ECR · CI/CD · GitHub Actions · Claude Code
Alexander S.
Last position:
AI Consultant for AI Voice Bot System at Rudolf Hörmann GmbH & Co.KG
- Consultant for system architecture, AI agents & integration, coach for data & process logic, Graph-RAG approaches, security and data protection.
- On-premise AI solutions with high compliance and performance requirements.
- Architecture decisions, operational setup, strategic prioritization & deployment.
- Technologies: LiveKit JS SDK, LiveKit Agents, Web Audio API, JS, AudioWorklet, Loki, vLLM, Zscaler, Docker, Neo4j, MySQL, Python.
- Models: GPT-OSS 20B, Whisper large v3 turbo, Qwen3-TTS.
Igor K.
Last position:
Freelance Software Developer
Zakaria A.
Last position:
Vice President Technology EMEA at Aparavi Software Europe GmbH
- Always looking for solutions to problems and finding ways to tackle business challenges
- Leading and managing large multi-disciplinary teams (product development, project management, engineering, operations, QA, solution management, customer success)
- Developing and executing innovation and digitalization strategies for complex transformation projects
- Acting as Information Security Officer, planning, conducting, and successfully completing all ISO 27001:2022 standard audits and continuously ensuring compliance
- Leading and coaching managers across the organization
- Representing the company at industry events and coordinating external partnerships
- Providing technical support to the Aparavi sales team
- Working with account managers to lead and grow enterprise customers
- Collaborating with technical and non-technical customer departments to manage and meet expectations (e.g., C-level, finance, IT services, data security and works council)
- Leading technical integration and coordinating seamless solution implementation
- Hands-on development and management of cloud, AI, and SaaS solutions to meet demanding customer expectations
- Promoting agile, DevOps-based methods and organizational structures for innovation and sustainable growth
- Continuously analyzing and solving technical and business challenges to boost company success
Leonid R.
Last position:
IT Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer at S-Payment GmbH / Sparkasse (DSV-Gruppe)
- Business analysis of payments for the introduction of Wero EPI in Germany.
- Analysis and optimization of merchant processes in the context of acquiring and issuing.
- Analysis of interfaces for instant payments.
- Analysis of SCT-Inst processes, settlement mechanisms and reporting processes.
- Identification and clarification of gaps in merchant processes.
- Analysis and documentation of clearing and settlement processes.
- OSPlus process analysis and documentation.
- Coordination and alignment with scheme management as well as various payment service providers and financial institutions on merchant processes.
- Preparation and follow-up as well as active participation in EPI meetings on technical coordination and regulatory topics in payments, including content familiarization and prioritization.
- Preparation and documentation of project and steering committees in the EPI environment.
- Creation of status reports for the subproject.
- Maintenance and structuring of Confluence pages for project documentation.
- Coordination and alignment with the issuing teams on individual customer processes as well as aligning with bank processes and acquirer processes in the Wero environment.
- Communication with payment service providers regarding merchant and bank processes in the Wero environment.
- Organizational support for project management in special tasks in the EPI and Wero environment.
- Digital filing and documentation in Confluence and Microsoft Teams.
- Planning, implementation and tracking of work packages and steps.
- Quality assurance and project control.
- Consulting on IT strategy, IT architecture and interface management in the EPI and Wero environment.
- Technical environment: Jira, Confluence, XML, JSON, MS Office (Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint), SharePoint, Draw.io, Innovator, 3rd-level support, ITIL, creation and updating of software documentation, interface management, OSPlus, Scrum, KYC, payment, European Payments Initiative (EPI), Wero, Microsoft Loop, Instant Payments, SCT-Inst.
Björn A.
Last position:
Project Manager at DB InfraGO
Project Elevator Emergency Call Reorganization: Project to evaluate and define a new technical solution for connecting elevator emergency calls across all DB InfraGO passenger station facilities.
Objectives: Secure redundant connectivity for all sites nationwide. Define the technical solution, document it, and provide thematic oversight and control of specialist and line organizations.
Identify and commission the technical solutions.
Manage the documentation and approval of the technical solution within DB regulations.
Define and follow up on the roadmap for the solution description.
Develop a rollout plan to prevent shutdowns.
Prepare, align, and implement decision proposals for steering committees.
Communicate the solution in all committees and regional departments.
Rolf G.
Last position:
Developer & Designer at Security authorities
- Migration of a case processing system with numerous interfaces to other systems from Spring and Activiti to a Java JEE application
- Further development into a cloud application
- Consulting, development, requirements analysis, specification and design
- Coordination with upstream and downstream systems
- Data modeling, programming and implementation
- Support with code reviews and ensuring clean code in the PL/SQL context
- Documentation in Confluence
- Troubleshooting PL/SQL applications including log analysis, session tracing and performance profiling
- Optimization and tuning measures in the PL/SQL environment
- Knowledge transfer and onboarding of new employees
- Use of Jira for task management, progress tracking and sprint planning
Andreas S.
Last position:
Lead Developer at Software
- Extended the document management system with a standard CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) interface
- Implemented CMIS core services like navigation, access rights, search, CRUD operations, and versioning in Java
- Implemented based on RESTful / OpenAPI services
- Delivered as a fat-jar and native container image
- Deployed on-premises and serverlessly as an Azure Container Application using Terraform
- Improved team autonomy through infrastructure engineering and short feedback loops
- Established observability with OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, and Azure Logic Apps
- Introduced Terraform and trunk-based development processes
- Ensured quality with BDD tests in C# using SpecFlow and Testcontainers
- Created Azure DevOps pipeline integration tests
- Introduced cloud deployment processes
- Trained staff in cloud and Terraform
Robert M.
Last position:
Backend Developer at Payment Backend
- Integration of partner systems in the payment and credit card environment.
- Development, deployment, and monitoring in a large system landscape.
- Use of a wide range of customer-specific frameworks and tools.
Khaled M.
Last position:
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer at Heycar (Mobility Trader GmbH)
- Heycar is a leading automotive platform redefining the used car market through intelligent data pipelines, multi-tenant services, and dealer-focused tooling. I led initiatives across backend architecture, data ingestion, and identity management to enhance scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.
- Ingestion Platform: Designed a unified ingestion platform with YAML-based configuration, enabling new dealer data pipelines to be onboarded without code changes, cutting setup time from ~2 months to 2-3 days and improving scalability by 40%.
- Keycloak Leadership: Acted as the company's Keycloak expert, scaling it for multi-tenant identity management and extending functionality with custom plugins and delegated admin APIs.
- Back-Office Tooling: Developed a back-office application integrated with Salesforce, enabling dealers to manage inventory, convert leads, and handle support requests in real time.
- Multi-Tenant Migration: Collaborated across backend teams to migrate Heycar's core services into a unified multi-tenant cluster, ensuring high availability.
- Frontend CI Optimization: Optimized monorepo delivery by implementing CircleCI dynamic config with NX, deploying only affected UI projects and drastically cutting build times.
- Observability & Mentorship: Enhanced monitoring and release reliability while mentoring backend engineers and improving code review standards.
Henning P.
Last position:
Backend Systems Development at Deutsche Bank/DWS/Morgenfund
- Developed backend systems for the DWS Investment App, a white-label investment solution (robo-advisor), and an investment solution for institutional clients.
- Java 8-17, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, OpenAPI 3.0, JPA, JDBI, Oracle, Hazelcast, JXLS, Apache POI, Apache PDFBox, Apache Kafka & Avro, Active MQ, Elasticsearch, React Native, Spock Test, IntelliJ IDEA, Kubernetes, Helm, Microservices/Netflix-Stack, TeamCity, Splunk.
- Kanban team, continuous integration.
- Migrated existing applications from Deutsche Bank's private cloud environment to Azure as part of a carve-out.
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Statistics of experts using Activiti
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years
Position duration
2.2 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Transportation
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Finance
Bachelor's degree or higher
75%
Master's degree or higher
25%
Doctorate
13%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
91%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Germany using Activiti
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Activiti experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (100%)
- Banking and Finance (73%)
- Transportation (55%)
- Automotive (45%)
- Manufacturing (45%)
- Media and Entertainment (45%)
- Professional Services (45%)
- Telecommunication (45%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Workflow automation
Activiti is an open-source workflow and business process management engine based on the BPMN standard. It runs executable process models, coordinates human tasks and service calls, and tracks process state across distributed applications. Companies use it to turn approval, onboarding, case handling and back-office procedures into controlled digital flows.
Process foundations
Activiti projects usually start with BPMN models that define events, gateways, user tasks, timers and process variables. Specialists translate operational rules into executable definitions while keeping them understandable to process owners. They also design error paths, escalations, retries and audit trails so a workflow remains dependable when real cases do not follow the happy path.
Java ecosystem
Activiti fits naturally into Java enterprise environments and commonly works with Spring, Spring Boot, REST APIs and relational databases. Depending on the project, professionals may also work with Activiti Cloud, messaging infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes and identity services. Useful adjacent skills include transaction management, database migration, automated testing and observability.
Where it fits
- Customer onboarding and approval workflows
- Claims, service and case management
- Document routing and compliance processes
- Order, invoice and exception handling
- Human tasks connected to microservices
Activiti is a strong fit when a company needs explicit process rules rather than hidden orchestration inside application code. In Germany, it appears in enterprise environments where traceability, role-based access and integration with established systems matter. Local teams may combine on-site process workshops with remote implementation.
When specialists help
- Existing BPMN models need executable implementation
- Legacy workflow logic must move into a maintainable service
- Activiti requires integration with ERP, CRM or identity systems
- Process failures, retries or long-running jobs are hard to diagnose
Freelance expertise is useful during platform selection, process discovery, migration and production stabilization. A specialist can separate business rules from technical orchestration, define clean service boundaries and establish deployment practices that internal teams can maintain after handover.
Quality signals
Strong Activiti professionals understand both BPMN semantics and the runtime behind them. They ask how processes change, who owns each task, what data must be retained and how incidents are recovered. Look for practical knowledge of versioning, persistence, concurrency, security and integration testing, not only the ability to create a diagram.
A reliable delivery includes readable process definitions, documented interfaces, tested exception paths and clear operational dashboards. It should also explain when Activiti is appropriate and when a simpler application workflow, a rules engine or another BPM platform would reduce complexity. That judgment is as important as writing the implementation.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about Activiti, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
Activiti is used to execute BPMN-based business processes across human tasks, service calls, approvals and automated decisions. It helps teams coordinate long-running workflows, track state and connect operational steps with enterprise applications.
Activiti shares BPMN roots with Flowable and Camunda, but the projects have developed different APIs, products and surrounding ecosystems. The right choice depends on existing code, migration constraints, cloud architecture, support needs and the process features a company actually requires.
Activiti work benefits from Java, Spring or Spring Boot, REST integration, SQL, automated testing and application security. Experience with messaging, containers, Kubernetes, identity providers and monitoring is valuable when workflows run as part of distributed enterprise systems.
Activiti projects vary widely in difficulty. A simple approval flow may need focused BPMN and integration knowledge, while regulated or long-running processes require deeper understanding of persistence, versioning, retries, concurrency and operational recovery.
Activiti is well suited to remote collaboration because process models, Java services and integration contracts can be reviewed digitally. On-site workshops can still help when specialists need to map complex procedures with German-speaking business teams or clarify responsibilities across departments.
Activiti quality is visible in clear BPMN, predictable exception handling, stable process migrations and tests that cover real business paths. Ask a specialist to explain process versioning, failed jobs, audit requirements and how operators investigate a case that stops mid-flow.
Activiti is often a better fit when processes are long-running, involve several roles, need visible modeling or must preserve an audit trail. Direct application logic may be simpler for short, stable sequences with limited coordination and no need for a dedicated process runtime.
Activiti specialists should clarify the engine version, process-definition lifecycle, persistence setup, deployment model and ownership of BPMN changes. They should also understand the surrounding Java services, identity model, integration dependencies and how business teams validate process behavior.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Activiti in their recent projects is 95 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 760 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Activiti in their recent projects, 75% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 25% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Activiti in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Activiti in their recent projects are German (100%), English (91%), and French (27%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Activiti in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (73%), and Transportation (55%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Activiti in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (91%), and Quality Assurance (82%).
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