Apache Kafka Experts in Switzerland
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Christoph Pardon
Last position:
ICT DevSecOps Engineer & Security Coordinator at Abraxas Informatik AG
- Interface role with the SOC team; improved incident response time by 45% through structured escalation processes and proactive security monitoring.
- Defined technical standards for a multi-tenant enterprise platform (10+ services), resulting in 30% shorter onboarding time for new clients in the public sector.
- Active knowledge transfer and mentoring of a 6-person team; increased team autonomy and established a sustainable engineering culture.
- Reduced time-to-market by 50% through CI/CD pipeline optimization and the introduction of self-service deployments.
- Stack: GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Nexus, Harbor, ArgoCD, HashiCorp Vault, Grafana, Python, PostgreSQL, Java, Spring Boot, Flyway, Quarkus, JBoss, Loki, Go, Kafka, Kustomize, MongoDB
Osman Tartoussi
Last position:
Senior Developer and Consultant at Federal Office for IT and Telecommunications BIT
IT consulting, analysis, architecture design, new and further development, code review, test automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery in the backend and frontend area.
Technology stack:
JAVA 21
Spring Boot 3
Spring Framework 6
Spring Rest
Spring Data
JPA
Postgres
Aurora Database
Typescript
OWASP
Renovatebot
Sonarqube
Prometheus
Grafana
Spring Security
Single SignOn
Keycloak
Angular 19
NgRx Redux
AWS ECS
AWS Cloudwatch
Terraform
Spacelift
GitOps
Docker
Junit
Maven
Jenkins Pipeline
GitHub
BitBucket
Nexus
Kafka
Conduktor
Kafdrop
OpenApi
Swagger
Scrum
SAFe
Jira
Confluence
Piotr Seredyn
Last position:
CTO Program Manager, Theme Owner / Senior Project Manager at Avaloq Group AG
- Clients: Central banks of the most developed economies in the world, German, Swiss, Luxembourgish, Monegasque, Singaporean, Japanese wealth managers and universal/private banks, world’s largest investment banks
- Accountable for managing the delivery of a portfolio of digital wealth and consumer relationship management initiatives
- Project managing portfolios of projects within CTO product and technology business area (cyber security, architectural changes, re-organisational transformation, 3rd party apps)
- Products: Kernel & Parametrisation for Core Avaloq Banking Platform; modules: CRM, client data management, wealth management, portfolio management (generating over 90% of company revenues)
- Key responsibilities:
- Reporting to Head of Disruptive Innovation Division; stakeholder to five product owners & two domain owners
- Accountable for delivery of annual themes and quarterly key deliverables
- Managing demand vs supply via QBR process: book of work, execution, reporting, risk management
- Directly managing around 40 external consultants (front-end/back-end engineers, BAs, designers)
- Hiring and managing resources in eight countries
- Running quarterly divisional closure meetings presenting achievements and challenges
- Resolving cross-team dependencies and internal/external conflicts
- Owning and controlling maintenance budget; planning, forecasting, execution; ensuring demand matches supply
- Identifying and staffing key roles with chapter leads
- Approach: Agile, Scrum of Scrums, QBR/OKRs
- Technology: Angular, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Confluence, JIRA (JQL)
Ursula Maria Mayer
Last position:
Business Mentor at RoleModel Rebels
- Mentor female students and professionals in advancing their careers, particularly as aspiring tech entrepreneurs.
Stefan Hess
Last position:
Fullstack Development, Product Owner & Tech Lead at Trex AG
- Business analysis, architecture, and implementation of a telemedicine platform for pet owners.
- Leading the development team as Product Owner and Tech Lead.
- Introducing agile processes, setting up development guidelines and system documentation.
- Planning and implementing features like video calls, live chat, and marketing automation.
- Implementing AI-based features such as automated tagging of information (missing pet reports, marketplace entries, etc.), preparation of social media content, and processing of conversation transcripts.
- Skills: Angular, NGXS, Tailwind, Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, MySQL, LLMs, RAG, MCP, Redis, OpenSearch.
- Industry: Veterinary medicine.
Fabian Kostadinov
Last position:
Lecturer at HWZ University of Applied Sciences
- Co-teach in CAS AI Management and CAS AI Innovation programs for future AI managers
- Cover topics including data platforms, AI architecture, technology adoption foundations, and factors influencing enterprise AI initiative success
Yuri Gladkov
Last position:
Senior Security Devops Engineer at Swisscom
- Implementation and maintenance of highly critical IAM solutions for B2B clients (SSO, MFA, SAML/OIDC, Entra ID, PIM/PAM)
- Security administration of Linux systems (CentOS, Red Hat) in Docker and Kubernetes environments
- Migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes
- Infrastructure automation with Terraform
- Planning and execution of risk assessments, threat modeling, and compliance reports
- Development and management of B2B applications (Java, REST/SOAP, Angular) and CI/CD pipelines (Python, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab)
- Leading integration tests and UAT (Cucumber, Selenium, Katalon)
- Implementing monitoring and observability strategies with Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk
- Integrating SAST tools like Snyk and SonarQube
- Release management and project coordination according to Scrum and SAFe
- Mentoring and technical support of junior team members
Csaba Kéri
Last position:
ServiceNow Consultant at DXC
- Worked in mixed teams with several clients
- Performed requirement engineering, proposal and time estimation
- Developed ACLs, business rules, flows, workflows, catalog items, various scripts, UI actions, policies, scoped applications
- Customized mobile apps: Now Agent and Now Mobile
- Implemented integrations using the Integration Hub
- Coordinated continuously with clients during development
- Performed testing and helped clients with testing
- Deployed to production and applied main version upgrades and patches
- Managed CMDB, domain separation and asset management
- Integrated between instances at different clients
- Developed GlideScript: business rules, scripted REST endpoints, extension points, fix scripts, background scripts
Mathias Dürrenberger
Last position:
Independent contractor at Allianz-Technology
- Developed a massive web application for second pillar retirement insurances (Swiss BVG, Kollektivleben) with over 1000 web pages using an in-house model language and Angular for front-end and back-end
- Fixed bugs in the code generator and enhanced and re-engineered the application
- Built an automated testbed
- Implemented PDF document generation with XML and Thunderhead
- Resolved issues due to the switch to Java 21
- Replaced middleware server for insurance base data (customers, contracts) using Java/Spring, REST, OpenAPI, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Azure CI/CD pipeline, Jenkins, and GitHub
Ferran Siles Vila
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at Personal time off / Private projects
- Took on and completed private/organizational projects.
- Continued self-training, e.g., in cloud and reactive architectures.
- Focused deepening of knowledge in areas like Kafka and modern Java 17 enterprise architectures.
Karl Estermann
Last position:
incl. CI/CD, automation at AALS Software AG
- Designed and delivered a practical real-time course on Flink and Hadoop with MapReduce, HDFS, Spark, Flink, Hive, HBase, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Kafka
- Gained extensive DevOps and CI/CD experience
- Created ETL/ELT pipelines with Apache tools and Pentaho
- Led projects in municipal software, financial services, and big data with Kafka
- Developed AI/NLP models and chatbots with RASA, Chatter, and Dialogflow
- Built and managed a TypeDB knowledge database
- Worked with OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Podman
Nenad Tomasic
Last position:
Contractor at Swisscom
- SAP Data Designer ETL, SQL Server, Docker for PharmaSuisse Data Warehouse Application (Application Manager and Developer)
- SAP Business Objects, ABAP on SAP HANA for the Police of the Canton of Bern (Application Manager and Developer)
- Avaloq Connectors to SAP BW for Banque Cantonale de Fribourg
Milica Maričić
Last position:
Full-Stack Developer at Holycode
- Contribute to a cross-functional team building a cloud-based bookkeeping platform for SMEs
- Design and implement Java Spring Boot microservices with clear separation of concerns
- Integrate core services via REST and gRPC APIs
- Implement event-driven workflows using RabbitMQ for reliable, decoupled messaging
- Model and manage transactional data in PostgreSQL and leverage Redis for caching
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Statistics of experts using Apache Kafka
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Government and Administration
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Research and Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
80%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
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Average rates of experts in Switzerland 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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
Event streaming
Apache Kafka is built for high-volume event streaming. Teams use it to move messages between services, capture application events, and keep systems in sync without tight coupling. It fits product telemetry, order flows, notifications, and audit trails.
Common use cases
- Service-to-service event distribution
- Real-time data pipelines
- Log and activity stream ingestion
- Change data capture and event replay
- Stream processing for operational dashboards
Kafka ecosystem
Strong specialists work across the core broker setup and the wider Kafka stack: Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Schema Registry, and related tools in Confluent Platform. They know how partitions, consumer groups, retention, and replication shape throughput and recovery. That mix matters as much as the code.
When to bring in help
Companies often need freelance expertise when an existing setup is slow, fragile, or hard to operate. Common signs are lagging consumers, poorly chosen partition keys, noisy retries, or unclear schema changes. In Switzerland, this often comes up in distributed product teams that need reliable collaboration across locations and languages.
What strong specialists do
A strong professional does more than configure brokers. They can design topic layouts, define delivery guarantees, improve observability, and reduce data loss risk. They also document event contracts so teams can evolve services without breaking downstream consumers.
Delivery focus
Kafka work usually ends in concrete deliverables: a stable cluster design, production-ready producer and consumer code, a streaming pipeline, or a migration from point-to-point integration. Good specialists also leave behind runbooks, alerting rules, and testing patterns. That makes day-to-day operation much easier for the team.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with Apache Kafka? These answers cover the essentials.
Apache Kafka is used to move events between systems in near real time. Companies rely on it for integration, stream processing, application logs, activity feeds, and event-driven workflows. It is a fit when services need to react to changes without direct coupling.
Kafka usually means the open-source Apache project. Confluent Kafka often refers to the commercial distribution and tools around it, such as management features and Schema Registry. The core ideas stay the same, but the surrounding tooling can change the way teams operate it.
A company should bring in Apache Kafka expertise when the platform needs to be designed, scaled, repaired, or integrated with other systems. This is common when topics, partitions, consumer groups, or schemas have grown messy. It is also useful before a migration or a major new event-driven service.
A strong Apache Kafka specialist usually knows Java, Spring Boot, or another service framework, plus event-driven design and distributed systems basics. Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, schema management, observability, and cloud infrastructure is often important. Security and access control also matter in production.
Apache Kafka is usually chosen for durable event streams, replay, and high-throughput pipelines. RabbitMQ is often better for classic queue-based messaging and routing patterns. The right choice depends on whether the priority is ordered event history, fan-out, or simple task delivery.
A small proof of concept can start with one strong Kafka professional, but production work needs someone who understands operations as well as coding. The harder parts are data contracts, failure handling, replay strategy, and capacity planning. Those details decide whether the system stays reliable.
Yes, Apache Kafka work is often done remotely because most tasks are design, coding, review, and troubleshooting. For teams in Switzerland, on-site time may still help during early architecture sessions or incident reviews. Clear English is usually enough, though some teams also value German or French.
Look for evidence that the Apache Kafka expert has delivered real production systems, not just demos. Good signs are clear topic design, sensible partitioning, thoughtful error handling, and strong observability. Ask how they handle schema evolution, consumer lag, replay, and operational handover.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects is 106 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 851 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 80% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects are English (100%), German (85%), and French (54%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (85%), and Government and Administration (69%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Apache Kafka in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Business Intelligence (54%).
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