Apache Kafka Experts in Austria
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Austria, who have recently used Apache Kafka
Alexander P.
Last position:
Owner & Lecturer at Own company for AI governance and data products, Vienna
- Consulting and interim management at the interface between IT operations and regulation
- Impact analysis and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and the EU AI Act, including risk management and reporting and evidence processes
- Training for governing bodies and employees on regulatory obligations
- Lectures in Data & Information Management and Human-Machine Interaction at University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, since 2023
- Supervision of master’s theses and participation in the examination board
- Presentations for business and educational institutions
- Design and development of data and AI products, platforms and pipelines
- Privacy-first architectures and zero-knowledge encryption, cloud-native on EU infrastructure
- MLOps and AIOps in live operations
- Own applications under own brand: shared codebase, separate delivery for each target device
- AI-assisted software development (vibe coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
- Publications on the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
- Publications on data sovereignty, cloud economics and industrial image processing
- AI governance / compliance: data quality, Responsible AI, EU AI Act readiness, risk classification, AI ethics
John A.
Last position:
Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)
Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and systems configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, JavaScript, Bash scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.
Marcel S.
Last position:
Senior AI Engineer - Python at Insurance Company
Project Tech Stack: Python, AWS, Azure, FastAPI, openai, pandas, unittest/pymock
Achievements:
- Engineered automated data extraction pipelines to transform complex Excel datasets into structured formats via LLM-driven workflows.
- Architected a generative slide-deck engine that translates natural language prompts into formatted presentation assets.
- Integrated advanced LLM capabilities with the OpenAI Response API, implementing sophisticated tool-calling and structured output logic.
- Developed and containerized scalable backend microservice using FastAPI, Docker, and OpenShift to host and serve agentic skills.
Nikolaus J.
Last position:
Solution Architect at HIT Baumärkte
- Leading high-impact retail digital transformation focused on data integration, app integration, and next-generation customer engagement strategies.
Michail M.
Last position:
OpenShift Specialist, Developer at Insurance
Project goal: Introduce OpenShift as the run-time platform and migrate all applications to OpenShift.
My contribution: Make sure logging and monitoring for the applications were in place. Set up and put into operation the OpenShift components for logging and monitoring (Elasticsearch, Prometheus, and Grafana). Develop and implement the security concept for OpenShift. Work with developers to define and carry out the application changes needed for the OpenShift migration. Integrate monitoring into the applications.
Technical environment: Java, WebSphere Liberty, OpenShift components, Elasticsearch (ELK stack), Prometheus, Grafana.
Peter S.
Last position:
Lead Software Architect at Pritz IT GmbH
- Lead software architect in a greenfield MES project (Manufacturing Execution System / factory control system), responsible for architecture decisions, technology selection, and technical direction throughout the entire development lifecycle
- Designed and built the core framework from scratch, including several reusable Spring Boot starters (e.g., OPC-UA integration, messaging, security) that enable flexible composition of the individual system modules
- Introduced Keycloak as the central authentication and authorization system with SSO across all MES components
- Created and owns the full CI/CD pipeline covering Java, NPM and Docker – automating build, test, containerisation and deployment across all project components
- Set up the architecture documentation space in Confluence as the single source of truth for all architecture decisions, component designs, and integration patterns
- Defined and enforced naming conventions and coding standards to ensure consistency in the growing codebase
- Conducted regular code reviews for quality assurance, knowledge sharing, and adherence to architecture guidelines
- Created and maintained technology roadmaps to guide future development priorities and infrastructure investments
Mario T.
Last position:
External Lecturer at FH Kufstein Tirol – University of Applied Sciences
- Study: Data Science & Intelligent Analytics
- Module: Big Data Processing
Burak E.
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at Nürnberger Versicherung
Further development of an insurance product quotation system
- Implementation and maintenance of pricing logic for property and casualty products (accident, property liability, business contents) based on Java and FaktorIPS
- Implementation of actuarial tariff revisions into product-specific calculation models
- Development and refactoring of backend components and web UI components
- Creation and maintenance of test tables and automated premium tests for quality assurance
- Code reviews and active involvement in quality assurance in the development process
- Production support and bug fixing in live operations
Florian F.
Last position:
Freelance Senior Developer at Green Compliance GmbH
- Developed a CRM solution using the Vaadin UI framework
- Implemented a digital audit workflow for efficient handling of review and approval processes
- Supported structured management of customer and project data and ensured compliance
- Focused on usability, process automation, and integration into existing systems
Jaroslav A.
Last position:
Child care, personal development and learning
Benjamin A.
Last position:
Multi-Project Manager at Trading Company
- Setup of a new Data Warehouse (Budget ~€15M 2025 – 2026)
- Backend modernization project (Budget ~€5M 2025 – 2026)
- Standard software rollout with custom programming (Budget ~€9M 2025 – 2026)
Joseph W.
Last position:
Freelancer Cloud / Solution Architect (AWS) at A1 Bank
- I am responsible for providing solution architecture and technical assistance for a migration initiative aimed at transitioning to a new core banking system.
- The project involves replacing in-house development with a commercially available off-the-shelf core banking system operated as SaaS on AWS.
- Duties encompass solution design, technical coordination, supporting development teams, and providing IT support and troubleshooting.
- Managing over 10 global vendors and partners is crucial to project success.
- Technologies: VMWare ESXi, AWS, EKS Kubernetes, Mastercard Payment Transaction Service, Avaloq, A1 Telekom Austria infrastructure, CheckPoint FW, F5, Site-to-Site VPNs, PingID, Futurae SDK, Airlock, UC4/Automic, Firebase, iOS/Android lifecycle management, AWS IAM, AWS AppStream, AWS S3, AWS Transfer Family, QlikView, OpenAPI.
David L.
Last position:
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Fractual
- Built and maintained a full-featured React Native mobile app and companion web portal supporting multi-role access and real-time collaboration for service teams.
- Developed a robust NestJS backend using TypeScript, adhering to scalable microservices patterns to support a dynamic task management system.
- Designed and optimized PostgreSQL schemas, using advanced indexing and normalized data models to support patient tracking, tasks, and outcome reporting.
- Integrated Socket.IO to support real-time team communication, task status updates, and instant notifications across mobile and web platforms.
- Developed secure authentication workflows using AWS Cognito, including multi-role login, token refresh, and session timeout handling.
- Leveraged AWS S3 for secure document uploads (patient records, resource materials) with signed URLs and access control policies.
- Connected AWS SNS and SES to automate notifications for escalations, missed follow-ups, and appointment reminders.
- Engineered an admin analytics dashboard using React + Zustand for tracking user activity, case completion rates, and compliance metrics.
- Designed and implemented AI-driven features for task prioritization and patient risk classification using external API integrations.
- Established a robust CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and Docker, achieving automated testing, linting, and environment-based deployments.
- Followed Agile ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retros) while collaborating with QA, BAs, and PMs to deliver high-velocity features.
- Led data protection efforts ensuring full GDPR compliance, including encrypted storage, session control, and user-consent management.
- Delivered a fully responsive UI using DaisyUI-style components for mobile and tablet-first designs, achieving high Lighthouse scores.
- Reduced support tickets by 40% by implementing detailed audit logging and a self-service helpdesk system in the admin interface.
Kurt B.
Last position:
Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Devs, ~10 Teams, per team: 1 PO, 1 Scrum Master, 1 UX, 1 Developer, 1 Tester
- .net core 8, 9, C#
- Microservices, Clean-Architecture, MediatR, CQRS
- GraphQL, REST, SDL
- Azure DevOps, CI / CD-pipelines, Azure-Service Bus, Rabbit-MQ, Kafka, Azure App Configuration, Azure KeyVault, Azure Kubernetes AKS
- Splunk, dashboards, custom metrics, Elastic-Search, Kibana (ELK)
- Azure SQL-Databases, Azure Cosmos DB
- Architecture decisions, event governance, COP (Backend, DevOps, FrontEnt, Test Automations)
- AI, Copilot, creating test templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated unit and integration tests
- Automated E2E tests, Playwright test automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Tracking of shipments
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx million messages per month per service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into Azure Data Lake
Alexander B.
Last position:
IT-Consultant and Trainer at Self-employed
- Enterprise & Solution Architecture and Business Analysis for various clients
- IT-Trainer for Software Architecture (Sparx Systems GmbH) and Business Process Modeling
- Data Analyst for Novustat (Statistics, Machine Learning, Financial Mathematics)
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Statistics of experts using Apache Kafka
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years
Position duration
2.5 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Insurance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
85%
Master's degree or higher
54%
Doctorate
8%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
88%
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 Austria 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 Austria using Apache Kafka
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.
Apache Kafka 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 (94%)
- Manufacturing (63%)
- Insurance (50%)
- Retail (50%)
- Banking and Finance (44%)
- Transportation (38%)
- Professional Services (38%)
- Government and Administration (38%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Event Streaming
Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform for moving, storing and processing continuous data flows. Companies use Kafka to connect applications, publish business events and keep services independent without relying on direct point-to-point integrations. It supports durable event logs, replayable data and real-time processing across complex systems.
Typical Systems
Kafka appears in architectures where data must move reliably between operational services, analytics tools and customer-facing applications.
- Event-driven microservices and integration layers
- Real-time fraud, monitoring and recommendation pipelines
- Change data capture from databases into data platforms
- IoT, logistics and financial transaction streams
- Data replication across regions or environments
Ecosystem And Tooling
Strong Kafka specialists work across brokers, topics, partitions, consumer groups and schema management. They may use Kafka Connect for integrations, Kafka Streams or ksqlDB for processing, and Schema Registry for governed event contracts. Confluent Platform and managed cloud offerings can simplify operations, but still require sound design decisions.
When Expertise Helps
Companies bring in freelance Kafka professionals when a proof of concept must become a stable production service, when event flows are difficult to observe, or when consumers fall behind. Expertise is also valuable during migrations from message queues, data integration projects and cloud transformations. In Austria, remote collaboration often works well, while workshops, architecture reviews or regulated delivery may call for on-site work and clear German or English communication.
Reliable Delivery
Quality work starts with an event model that reflects the business, not only the infrastructure. Experienced specialists define keys, partitioning, retention, ordering and delivery guarantees deliberately. They also plan schema evolution, access control, disaster recovery and migration paths before production traffic exposes weaknesses.
Choosing A Specialist
Look for professionals who can explain trade-offs in plain language and show how they have handled failure, reprocessing and operational ownership. Useful evidence includes capacity assumptions, monitoring dashboards, runbooks and tested recovery procedures.
- Clear topic and schema conventions
- Safe consumer and retry patterns
- Practical observability with useful alerts
- Secure access across teams and environments
- Documentation that internal teams can maintain
Frequently asked questions
Key details about Apache Kafka, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
Apache Kafka is used to move event data between services, applications and analytical systems in near real time. Common examples include order processing, activity tracking, database change capture, fraud detection and IoT data collection.
Kafka keeps an ordered, durable event log that multiple consumer groups can read independently and replay when needed. Traditional queues often focus on handing each message to a consumer, so the better choice depends on retention, replay, throughput and delivery requirements.
Apache Kafka work often connects with Java, Scala, Python, SQL, Kubernetes, Terraform and cloud services. A strong specialist should also understand databases, networking, security, observability and event-driven architecture.
Kafka projects need enough practical experience to cover design and operations, not just client configuration. The required depth depends on whether the engagement involves a small integration, a migration, multi-region resilience or a business-critical streaming platform.
Apache Kafka projects are often suitable for remote collaboration because configuration, reviews and monitoring can be handled online. On-site sessions may still help with discovery, architecture workshops or coordination with teams that handle regulated data, with German or English agreed in advance.
Kafka Streams is useful when processing should stay close to Kafka topics and the application needs stateful operations, joins or windowing. A separate engine may be a better fit for broad batch workloads, advanced analytics or processing that spans many data systems.
Apache Kafka quality shows in explicit event contracts, sensible partitioning, controlled schema changes and tested failure recovery. Ask for monitoring, security, capacity assumptions and runbooks, rather than judging the work only by whether messages move in a demonstration.
Confluent Platform is a commercial distribution and ecosystem built around Apache Kafka, with additional tools and services for governance, integration and operations. Kafka itself is the open-source core, so a specialist should explain which components the project actually needs.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects is 98 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 786 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects, 85% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 54% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects are German (94%), English (94%), and Spanish (19%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Manufacturing (63%), and Insurance (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (81%), and Operations (75%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Apache Kafka
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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Vienna Countries:
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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