Apache Solr Experts in Munich
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Christiane Neher
Last position:
Management Consultant at Christiane Neher Management Consulting
Large Insurance Company – Consultant Wiesbaden: Consulting support for the introduction of an integrated planning and performance management framework (operational, financial, customer) to enhance customer-centric transparency, decision-making quality, and steering capabilities across all lines of business within an insurance organization:
- Analysis of existing processes, reports, KPIs, and KPI calculation methodologies
- Design and introduction of new, standardized customer KPIs (gross/net), as well as key steering metrics with consistent linkage across all lines of business
- Recalculation, validation, and plausibility checks of KPIs based on existing and newly integrated data sources
- Conceptual support for the development of an integrated reporting and performance management setup
- Execution of customer insights analyses to identify patterns and anomalies within customer data clusters
Large retail company – Consultant in Karlsruhe: Advisory services for the setup and step-by-step implementation of an internationally deployable RELEX solution in the supply chain management environment:
- Advising overall and sub-project management on methodology, project setup and steering (e.g. agile approach, Jira configuration, RELEX phases, Jira Structure PPM)
- Strategic-operational consulting for the introduction of RELEX including best practices
- Support in defining overarching goals and requirements (2-year target picture)
- Guidance in scoping a relevant supply chain network segment for the project
- Development of a roadmap for iterative, incremental RELEX setup and rollout
- Assessment of project dependencies (interfaces, configurations, etc.)
- Advice on prioritized implementation of business requirements and data interfaces
- Support in test planning (data validation, system testing, UAT)
- Consulting on internationalization, change management, training, and knowledge transfer
- Stakeholder advisory and alignment activities between the client, implementation partner, and RELEX
Insurance company – Management Consultant in Munich: Analysis, consulting and support for the optimization of a large-scale business and IT transformation. Focus on strategically important programs and modernization projects in the area of Managed Services Operations and processes:
- Review of project plans and deliverables; analysis of programs and projects (e.g. cloud approach, process standardization, system integration, roadmaps)
- Identification of technical, functional and personnel risks and challenges; development of content-related measures and alternative solutions
- Proposal of quality improvements for program and modernization efforts
- Sparring partner and professional, technical, structural and organizational consulting for project and program management
Large retail group – Management Consultant & Stream Lead in Cologne: Consulting, process, project and product management for the introduction and implementation of a large strategic program in the field of advanced analytics, assortment and space management:
- Setup, test and rollout of a new space planning, automation and optimization product based on the existing cluster-based merchandising approach
- Definition and setup of new processes and transformation and change management measures for the new store-specific merchandising approach
- Collaboration with Advanced Analytics and IT (internal and external) for software implementations, automations, extensions and interfaces
- MVP approach and piloting in phases with gradual rollout (pilot with 80 stores, region with 500 stores, national level with 4000 stores)
Large retail company – Agile Coach & Change Agent in Cologne: Agile coach, OKR master and facilitator for the introduction of the OKR approach in a large strategic digitization program for retail stores:
- Coaching of the core team with topic managers and team leads
- Introduction to the OKR topic and setup of the OKR cycle
- Establishment of the OKR approach in teams and on a cross-team level
Delivery and logistics company – Management Consultant in United Kingdom: Consulting and coaching in the restructuring of the Data Analytics department:
- Analysis of current challenges
- Definition of overarching goals
- Development of a proposal for a new team structure
- Identification of required competencies, skills and responsibilities
- Advisory and alignment on communication and change management strategy
Celso Kurrle
Last position:
SAP Commerce Cloud FullStack Developer at Spar
- Implementation of a GitLab CI/CD pipeline based on SAP Commerce Cloud 2211
- Development of a new B2C shop with Vue, Node and TypeScript to ensure scalability, extensibility and performance optimization
- Integration of Microsoft Azure Event Grid with SAP Hybris
- Implementation of BDD with Cucumber using Gherkin syntax to promote collaboration between development and business teams
- Support and customization of a Spartacus shop
- Technologies/Languages: Java, REST, OData, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Cucumber, Node, Vue, TypeScript, Spartacus, GitLab CI/CD, Gradle, Maven, Ant, SonarQube
Bharath Vishwanath
Last position:
Senior Consultant at Syskoplan Reply
- Backend development of B2B e-commerce solution using SAP Commerce Cloud, leveraging Java and Spring Framework with creation of REST APIs for effective communication.
- Resolved software defects, developed automated cron jobs and triggers, and authored unit tests with JUnit to uphold code stability and quality standards.
- Utilized Git-based version control systems (Bitbucket/GitHub) for source code management and used Jenkins to support continuous integration and development (CI/CD).
- Executed and closed multiple user stories and tickets across iterative bi-weekly sprints under Agile (SCRUM) methodology.
- Led incident resolution in the production environment and minimized downtime through real-time monitoring (Solr, SAP CCv2, OpenSearch Dashboards) and sustaining SLA targets above 99%.
Sascha Jürgens
Last position:
Agile Coach & Partner at Agisolve GmbH – Pragmatic Agility® | Edler & Stiegler GmbH | CTN Consulting
- Create a product and service portfolio delivering a 360 degree approach to digital corporate sustainability covering KPI management, CSRD reporting and sustainable strategy
- Create vision and business case
- Onboard and align business partners, negotiate contracts
- Set up partner network as self-organized agile team
- Co-develop product and service portfolio
- Coordinate sales and marketing, go-to-market strategy and roadmap
Cristian Serje Reyes
Last position:
Team Lead Mobile Native Apps at Check24 GmbH
- Built and managed a high-performing native app team (Android & iOS) from scratch
- Modernized the finance application with new features, leveraging Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot microservices
- Introduced and scaled backend services enabling secure, high-traffic financial transactions for millions of users
- Improved development efficiency with custom tools for crash reporting, CI/CD pipelines, and release management
- Led recruitment, coaching, and mentoring of developers, fostering professional growth and cross-functional collaboration
Antonio Enea Marraffa
Last position:
Senior PO/PM/Agile Master for AI/NLP/ML Products at Freelancer
- PO/PM for digital products such as Search, Recommendations and AI (IR/ML) related projects, Knowledge and Document Management Systems, search with LLMs, RAG and Knowledge Graph
- Agile evangelist helping people, teams and organizations work in agile ways
Anton Klonov
Last position:
Head of Technical Overall Integration NSC / Hadoop Cloud Development at IABG
Head of technical overall integration NSC (National Secure Cloud project with about 60 employees).
Technical integration of all subprojects into one product, definition of interfaces, basic components of a cloud including hardware, technical architecture of the IABG base.
Development of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) that can create a private/mixed cloud of any complexity based on a textual description with one click or interactively.
CMP also includes the complete hardware management cycle.
As a foundation, it uses Kubernetes, OpenStack, and Hadoop.
The management layer includes Harbor, Gitea, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher and Jenkins, which are automatically configured.
The private cloud can run any customer workloads, including a full Hadoop stack with HDFS, Spark, MapReduce, Mesos, HBase and around 20 other ML/DL technologies.
Hadoop worker clusters can also be automatically installed on bare metal or commodity hardware without Kubernetes.
OpenStack with Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Swift, Cinder, Ceph.
Development of a Java application Rudi: SOAP, REST, containers, database.
Technologies: Kubernetes (K3s, RKE2, Minikube, Harbor, Gitea, Jenkins, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher), OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Swift, Ceph, Cinder, Sahara, Magnum, Kayobe, Kolla, Bigrost, Ironic), Hadoop (HDFS, Ambari, Solr, Livy, Ranger, YARN, Tez, HBase, Kafka, Hive, Zookeeper, MapReduce, Spark, Oozie, Flink), virtualization (Kubernetes (K3s), VMware, Oracle), scripting (Ansible, Puppet, Juju, Shell, Groovy, Gradle, Maven).
Jamal Baydoun
Last position:
Freelance Software Architect & Developer at IBM Deutschland GmbH / BWI GmbH
- Architecture, design and further development of a hybrid solution consisting of a Java backend with REST API and C# / WPF frontend
- Development of secure, distributed functions for classified message processing, categorization and encryption
- Integration of backend services with document management systems (DMS) for structured file storage
- Planning, setup and continuous optimization of Azure DevOps pipelines for automated deployment and quality assurance of distributed applications in a security-critical environment
- Technical coordination with Bundeswehr project managers and third-party providers of relevant software and interfaces, and documentation of the developed solutions
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Statistics of experts using Apache Solr
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years (Germany: 21 years)
Position duration
2.3 years (Germany: 1.9 years)
Positions per freelancer
15
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence
Top industries
Information Technology, Retail, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 94%)
Master's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 56%)
Doctorate
20% (Germany: 9%)
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Munich using Apache Solr
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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
Search at scale
Apache Solr powers search experiences for product catalogs, document archives, internal knowledge bases, and public portals. It is built on Lucene and is used when relevance, filtering, highlighting, and fast retrieval matter more than simple keyword lookup.
Core work
Strong specialists handle schema design, query tuning, and index updates. They also shape facets, autocomplete, spellcheck, and result ranking so users find the right content quickly.
Typical tasks
- Design fields, analyzers, and boosts for clean search behavior
- Tune queries, filters, and sorting for speed and relevance
- Set up faceting, synonyms, and autocomplete
- Stabilize indexing, reindexing, and data sync flows
Ecosystem and tools
Solr usually sits with Java services, content repositories, databases, queues, and search APIs. Many teams also work with SolrCloud, ZooKeeper, and deployment tooling for replicas, collections, and failover.
When companies bring help
Teams call in freelance experts when search quality slips, data models change, or a migration needs careful execution. In Munich, this often comes up in e-commerce, media, travel, and enterprise software projects that need on-site workshops or remote delivery.
What strong specialists do
Good Apache Solr professionals think in data structure, relevance, and operations. They read query patterns, inspect logs, test edge cases, and keep performance stable under real traffic.
- Explain trade-offs clearly to product and engineering teams
- Improve search quality without breaking existing results
- Keep indexes, replicas, and deploys predictable
- Document settings so teams can maintain the system later
Frequently asked questions
Curious about Apache Solr? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
Apache Solr is used to power fast search over large and structured content sets. Companies use it for product search, document search, knowledge bases, and portals that need filtering, sorting, highlighting, and faceted navigation. It fits projects where relevance matters and the content model is more complex than a simple database lookup.
Solr and Elasticsearch both serve search use cases, but the fit depends on the project. Solr is often chosen for search-heavy applications that want mature Lucene-based relevance control, strong faceting, and a long-established admin model. Elasticsearch is also common, so the right choice depends on the existing stack, operational setup, and search design.
A strong Apache Solr freelancer usually brings Lucene knowledge, Java expertise, and experience with schema design, analyzers, and query tuning. Adjacent skills often include data modeling, indexing pipelines, REST APIs, and operations topics like SolrCloud and ZooKeeper. For many projects, they also need to work well with content teams and backend teams.
You usually need a senior Solr specialist when search results are poor, indexing is unstable, or a migration must be done without breaking production search. They are also useful when teams need better faceting, multilingual search, synonym handling, or a new content model. If the system already supports business-critical search, careful expertise matters.
Yes, most Apache Solr work can be done remotely because the core tasks are schema work, query tuning, and code changes. On-site time in Munich can help when the project needs stakeholder workshops, search relevance reviews, or access to local systems and teams. Many engagements mix both.
Look for someone who can explain why search behaves a certain way, not just how to change settings in Solr. Good specialists show clear thinking about field types, analyzers, ranking, and indexing flow, and they test changes against real queries. They should also document choices so the team can maintain the setup.
Apache Solr is still a solid choice when you need mature search features, detailed relevance control, and a well-known Lucene stack. It is especially strong for content-rich systems, portal search, and enterprise use cases with complex filtering or faceting. For new projects, the best choice depends on the team’s stack and search goals.
Before working on Apache Solr, freelancers should review the current schema, sample queries, index update flow, and the business meaning of the search results. They should also understand synonyms, languages, edge cases, and the main user journeys. That preparation helps them improve relevance without creating regressions.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Solr in their recent projects is 92 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 740 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Solr in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 100% hold at least a Master's degree, and 20% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Solr in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Solr in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (50%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Solr in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Retail (88%), and Banking and Finance (63%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Solr in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Business Intelligence (63%).
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