Amazon ECS Experts in Berlin
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Benjamin Faas
Last position:
Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master & Agile Coach at Freelance
Freelance product owner, scrum master and agile coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries.
Last projects:
Adevinta: Technical Project Manager responsible for coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform.
Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company): Product Manager implementing and verifying on the business side a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers.
Peek & Cloppenburg DĂĽsseldorf: Product Manager Mobile advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS apps.
Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company), Berlin: Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering department together with the Director Engineering.
Responsibilities at Visual Meta GmbH:
Define and deliver a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission connecting to existing company strategy and strategies from adjacent departments.
Refine an existing OKR process together with OKR master and directors of other departments to increase focus and outcome.
Support the Director Engineering in creating a platform transformation strategy to transform a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establish a domain-based organizational setup.
Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 head-level colleagues and 17 operational team members from product management, data and UX/UI design.
Key achievements at Visual Meta GmbH:
Defined and delivered a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission.
Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen.
Created a career path framework for the product team defining roles and responsibilities from junior to head level positions.
Nune Isabekyan
Last position:
Fractional CTO at OpsWorker
OpsWorker turns Kubernetes alerts into root-cause analyses, on top of the monitoring a team already runs. I lead the technical side: the agent architecture, the AWS infrastructure it runs on (fully inside EU regions), and the engineering decisions behind it, read-only in the cluster by default, human in the loop for judgment. The stack underneath: Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore, agents built with the Strands Agents SDK, the Claude and OpenAI APIs, and the Kubernetes API.
Jan Krol
Last position:
Data Expert at Manufacturing
Qaiser Abbasi
Last position:
Freelance Lead DevOps Engineer at Schwarz Gruppe Produktion
Bootstrapping a CloudOps team and building a multi-cloud provider backend for a low-code Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with env zero
Introducing user story mapping, ADRs, milestones, and backlog management
Designing and developing core APIs, setting up CI/CD pipelines, OpenTofu/Terraform scripts
Representing and communicating the team with third-party stakeholders (e.g. env zero)
(Cross-)team coaching on DevOps, software design, Terraform, Golang, and agile practices
Vili Dhamo
Last position:
Technical Lead, Data Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Consulting
- Optimized the data architecture (medallion) to better decouple processing stages and improve transparency and reproducibility
- Ensured technical quality of data processing in Databricks by introducing schema enforcement, data quality checks and a structured data architecture
- Orchestrated pipelines with Azure Data Factory
- Professionalized and automated the development and deployment process by integrating Git and GitHub Actions
- Led the Data Engineering team (3 members) in a functional role
- Conducted workshops to optimize and stabilize the data platform and the development process
- Collected and prioritized new requests, maintained the product backlog
- Technologies: Microsoft Azure (Data Lake, Data Factory), Databricks, Apache Spark (PySpark), Python, SQL, Git, Confluence, Power BI, Power Apps, Dataverse, MS SharePoint, Mural
Igor Kazarnovskiy
Last position:
Freelance Software Developer
Ashwin Parthasarathy
Last position:
Data Scientist at Mercor Intelligence
- Elevated LLM output reliability by engineering domain-specific prompts and evaluation logic, improving reasoning consistency across production language model workflows.
- Designed advanced coding benchmarks and validated solutions to strengthen training and evaluation datasets, improving model performance on technical problem-solving tasks.
- Designed and implemented automated evaluation frameworks for technical reasoning tasks; optimized LLM output reliability by 15% through rigorous prompt engineering and rubric-based benchmarking.
Oleg Abrazhaev
Last position:
Lead Full Stack Software Engineer at sdev
- Worked on a customer project under NDA
- Tech stack used:
- Backend: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Express, PostgreSQL, OpenAI API, Docker
- Frontend: TypeScript, Vue.js 3 with Composition API, Vuetify 3, Angular, Angular Material, SCSS, TailwindCSS
Daniel Boesswetter
Last position:
Senior Cloud Consultant and Developer at SDIA/Leitmotiv
- Consulting an NGO in the field of data center sustainability in publicly funded projects (BMUKN with NADIKI and Federal Environment Agency with SIEC)
- Development of Python APIs and web applications, deployment on AWS/ECS with Terraform
- Collecting power consumption metrics for servers, CPUs, GPUs running AI workloads
- Technologies used: AWS, EC2, ECS, Fargate, CloudMap, VPC, Route53, Lambda, EventBridge, CodeBuild/CodePipeline/CodeDeploy, Terraform, Docker, Linux, Bash scripting, Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, SQL, MariaDB, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Prometheus, Zabbix, Kubernetes, Letsencrypt, certificate management
Christian Richter
Last position:
Freelance Data Engineer at Ingenieurbüro Christian Richter – Data, Cloud & Container
- Contributed to over 20 successful projects
Robert Hänsel
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at Zalando SE
Henning Petersen
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 Amazon ECS
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years (Germany: 17 years)
Position duration
2.5 years (Germany: 2.1 years)
Positions per freelancer
12 (Germany: 14)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence
Top industries
Information Technology, Retail, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
88% (Germany: 92%)
Master's degree or higher
38% (Germany: 51%)
Doctorate
13% (Germany: 12%)
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, Russian
Speak two or more languages
92% (Germany: 96%)
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Berlin 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 Berlin using Amazon ECS
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
What ECS does
Amazon ECS is AWS’s container orchestration service for running and scaling containers without managing a separate control plane. Teams use it for web services, APIs, workers, scheduled jobs, and internal tools that need predictable deployment and runtime behavior.
Core stack
- Task definitions for container images, CPU, memory, ports, and environment settings
- Services for long-running workloads and rolling updates
- Fargate for serverless container execution or EC2 for host-level control
- ECR, IAM, CloudWatch, ALB, and VPC integration
Delivery work
Freelance specialists are often brought in to set up new ECS clusters, migrate from Docker hosts or Kubernetes, and standardize deployment pipelines. They also help with blue-green releases, service discovery, autoscaling, secrets handling, and logging.
Good fit signals
Companies usually look for outside help when deployments are fragile, tasks fail on startup, or networking and permissions are unclear. The same is true when Berlin teams need an AWS setup that supports local product squads, remote operators, or mixed collaboration across time zones.
What strong experts know
Strong Amazon ECS professionals understand container image design, AWS networking, IAM boundaries, and how ECS behaves on Fargate and EC2. They write clean task definitions, set health checks, tune resource limits, and spot why a service cannot pull an image or register with a load balancer.
Search terms and scope
Amazon ECS is often searched as ECS or by its former name, Amazon EC2 Container Service. The best experts know when ECS is the right fit versus Kubernetes, and how to keep the setup simple when AWS-native tooling is enough. They leave teams with deployment flows that are easy to operate and extend.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Amazon ECS.
Amazon ECS is used to run containerized services on AWS with less orchestration work than a self-managed cluster. Companies use it for APIs, background workers, scheduled jobs, and internal systems that need repeatable deployment and scaling. It fits teams that want AWS-native operations without adding more infrastructure layers than needed.
ECS is usually simpler to adopt when a team already lives in AWS and wants a managed path for container scheduling, scaling, and service updates. Kubernetes gives more portability and a broader ecosystem, but it also adds more moving parts. A good specialist helps decide whether ECS or EKS better fits the workload, team skills, and operations model.
A strong Amazon ECS specialist is useful when a service needs a clean launch, a migration from another container setup, or help with tricky AWS integration. Common reasons include image pull failures, IAM issues, load balancer setup, networking problems, or unstable deployments. They also help when the team needs a clearer way to operate services day to day.
An experienced Amazon ECS professional usually works across ECR, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, ALB, Route 53, and Secrets Manager. They should also understand Docker images, deployment pipelines, and how containers behave under resource limits. Without that wider AWS context, ECS setups often become hard to run and troubleshoot.
A small Amazon ECS setup can often be handled by one experienced specialist if the architecture is straightforward. Larger environments need deeper knowledge of networking, security boundaries, deployment strategy, and observability. The more services, environments, and release steps involved, the more important senior judgment becomes.
Most Amazon ECS work can be done remotely because the key tasks are in AWS, container images, and deployment tooling. On-site time can help when a Berlin team wants faster alignment on architecture, incident handling, or handover. Many companies use a mix: remote delivery with focused in-person workshops.
Look for a Amazon ECS specialist who can explain task definitions, service behavior, networking, and failure modes in plain language. Strong signs are clean deployment structures, sensible IAM use, good logging, and a setup that another expert can maintain. The best freelancers also show when ECS is not the right choice.
Yes. Some people still use the former name, Amazon EC2 Container Service, especially in older documentation or long-running AWS environments. In current work, most professionals say Amazon ECS or just ECS, but they should understand both names and the same service behind them.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 830 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects, 88% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 38% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects are German (100%), English (92%), and Russian (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Retail (58%), and Professional Services (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (83%), and Business Intelligence (75%).
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