AWS CDK Experts in Germany
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Salim Chehab
Last position:
Cloud / Systems Architect
- Development and introduction of operational processes
- Preparation of complete documentation packages (including emergency management and operations) to meet compliance requirements
- Introduction of a workshop on IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Professional consulting for the project's security concept (ISMS)
- Installation and operation of Kubernetes clusters on AWS, on-prem, and Azure
- Design of hybrid cloud architecture (on-prem, Hetzner, AWS)
- Analysis and resolution of incidents and system outages
- Network changes to firewall rules, gateways, OpenVPN settings, and IPsec tunnel (pfSense)
- Professional consulting on BitBucket, Jenkins, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Consulting on Ansible deployments and infrastructure automation
- Consulting on building a scalable system in the cloud (AWS / Azure)
- Technologies / Tools: Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Azure, VPN, pfSense, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Kubernetes, GitLab Runner, ISMS, Golang, Prometheus, Grafana, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, Cognito, OIDC, Harbor, MinIO, Postgres, Redis, Keycloak, Ceph, Proxmox, CloudFormation, PostgreSQL, Flux CD, Hetzner, IONOS, Sonatype Nexus Repository, Entra ID, Dex IdP, Pulumi
Jorge Machado
Last position:
Technical Lead / Fractional CTO at Würth GmbH
I designed and developed an AI-powered multi-tenant platform on Azure that transforms SAP process recordings into technical documentation, presentations and automated tests, processing over 15,000 process recordings for enterprise customers like Würth. I owned the architecture, the production releases and the DevOps setup. I also designed a multi-tenant system with SSO and role-based access on Azure. Implemented an MCP Server with Dynamic OAuth Authentication.
Main Tasks:
- Sprint planning and feature preparation
- Design the multi-tenant platform architecture (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL row-level security for tenant isolation)
- Develop AI pipelines with Prefect for transcription (Azure Speech API), document generation and SAP screen-recording analysis (Claude, gpt-4-mini)
- Design and implement an MCP server to expose tenant knowledge to LLM clients (Claude), with async retrieval and reranking
- Implement LLM cost tracking, rate limiting and client pooling for Anthropic/OpenAI/Azure OpenAI endpoints
- Set up CI/CD: Docker images to Azure Container Registry, GitHub Actions, Azure Static Web Apps, Alembic migrations in containers
- Manage production releases and execute live data migrations for enterprise customers
- Define engineering standards and architecture patterns for the team
Environment: Azure / Azure Foundry / Python / FastAPI / Prefect / React / PostgreSQL
Thomas Hoefkens
Last position:
Senior MLOps, DevOps Engineer at Trianel Energy
- Build and operate an end-to-end MLOps platform on Azure ML and Kubernetes (Kubeflow) for the automated deployment, monitoring, and scaling of forecasting models (including Temporal Fusion Transformer, Informer, Autoformer).
- Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for the full ML lifecycle – from resource provisioning (Terraform), data transformation (Hugging Face Datasets, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA cluster) through training and evaluation to model registry and endpoint deployment.
- Integrate MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, performance monitoring, and automated registration in the Azure Model Registry.
- Develop and containerize PyTorch training jobs (Azure Notebook, Jupyter Notebooks) for price and time series forecasting (PFC models) with automatic rollout via Azure ML Endpoints and REST/gRPC interfaces, Docker containerization, secured with OAuth 2.0.
- Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms (Prometheus, MLflow Metrics), log centralization, and cost monitoring.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and model deployment using Terraform, Helm, and Azure CLI; connect to existing market data systems and event pipelines.
- Migrate existing workloads and databases (IONOS → Azure, MongoDB) with integration into central MLOps workflows and internal networks.
- Extend the platform with LLM-based tools (LangChain, LangServe) to integrate GPT-based analysis modules into existing Spring Boot services for market anomaly detection and automated reports.
- Analyze and architect a software solution to process large volumes of data efficiently (>3000 messages/sec.) (market data store).
- Spring Boot / Java 21 container development with RabbitMQ for distributing stock market data via MongoDB (Kubernetes) with fast storage of data in Redis RMaps, deduplication, forwarding messages to Read Model queues, and building Read Models for UI display in MongoDB.
- Integration of RESTHeart to create a REST API for MongoDB.
- Build an Angular frontend to simplify data queries and master data maintenance.
- Agentic coding with remote and local LLMs (Claude Sonnet, Ollama Qwen) and MCP servers.
- Develop Python scripts for transforming and cleaning incoming stock market data (Pandas, scikit-learn).
Marina Kornilova
Last position:
Independent Software Developer at LILARAUM
- Independently designed, developed, published, and maintained mobile games for iOS and Android.
- Implemented application architecture, gameplay systems, UI, monetization, analytics, and platform integrations.
- Managed the complete release lifecycle, including testing, store publication, production monitoring, and iterative improvements based on analytics.
Thorsten Boock
Last position:
Senior Backend Engineer at VTG Rail Europe
traigo is VTG's digital rail logistics and fleet management platform. It processes large volumes of telemetry, mileage, geofence, sensor and wagon-movement events in near real time and provides operational services for rail logistics customers across Europe.
As part of Team Customer Selfcare, I worked on the design, implementation, optimisation and operation of large-scale backend services and event-driven processing pipelines — covering both feature development and operational ownership of business-critical production systems. I also regularly acted as first responder for production incidents, data inconsistencies and performance investigations across multiple distributed services.
- Design and implementation of event-driven backend services.
- Migration and replacement of legacy processing pipelines.
- Development of replay / rebuild mechanisms for large event datasets.
- High-throughput asynchronous event processing on SNS / SQS.
- Database and query optimisation for PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.
- Design of scalable read / write models and aggregation pipelines.
- Production troubleshooting and operational support.
- Performance tuning and infrastructure scaling.
- Design and stabilisation of integration and system tests.
- Technical concepts, architecture documentation, and cross-team collaboration.
- Support the further development of existing GitLab CI/CD pipelines
Geofence & Wagon Stay Processing
- Algorithm to detect vehicles within geofences (entry, exit, dwell time).
- Event sourcing with guaranteed chronological order within the affected time window.
- Refactored geofence event and wagon-stay processing logic for performance.
- Resolved race conditions and event-ordering problems in distributed services; server-side filtering, aggregation and optimised query pipelines.
- Repair and replay tooling for corrupted or inconsistent movement data.
Fleet Metadata & Mileage
- Modernised the service; migrated storage from DynamoDB to PostgreSQL to improve traceability and accelerate new features.
- Scalable mileage aggregation and replay mechanisms.
- Read / write models and optimised queries for high-volume mileage calculations.
Sensor & Telematics Integration
- Integrated telemetry and sensor processing pipelines.
- Snapshot and state-calculation logic for sensor systems.
- APIs and persistence models for wagon sensor data; data-quality improvements.
- Further development of a service using gRPC for intra-service communication.
Movement Segment Processing & Routing
- Migrated services to new movement-segment event streams.
- Built replay and rebuild tooling for segment correction.
- Optimised throughput and reliability for high-volume event processing.
Condition Monitoring & Wagon Analytics
- APIs and backend services for wagon condition monitoring.
- Brake-wear prediction processing and wagon analytics functionality.
- PostgreSQL views and optimised query models for operational dashboards.
Operational Reliability - First Responder
- Investigated production incidents and distributed-system failures; DLQ analysis, replay and operational recovery.
- Tuned database performance and AWS infrastructure under production load.
- Improved observability, monitoring and operational tooling.
- Supported rollout strategies, monitoring and post-deployment stabilisation.
Jan Krol
Last position:
Data Expert at Manufacturing
Max Dietrich
Last position:
Senior Fullstack Engineer at Spiri.Bo GmbH
- Building new and improving existing features for a housing management platform that helps both landlords and tenants
- Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes
Tobias Nawa
Last position:
Enterprise & Solutions Architect
- Building an independent enterprise IT setup — cloud strategy, network, AWS landing zone, security requirements, contract negotiations.
- Migration of all applications; avoiding high contractual penalties for the client.
- Onboarding and coordination o...
Michael Fecher
Last position:
Freelancer, Solution Architect at Schufa AG
- Helped to design the AWS infrastructure, integrated services and backend architecture for use cases of an on-premise solution and partial migrations to AWS with fast response times
- Implemented automated AWS integration test suites
- Implemented mission-critical components and delivered them before the deadline in a production-ready state with operation and monitoring concepts
- This 2-month subproject was about building a data-intense pipeline (5 TB) to be enriched continuously with data
- Designed and implemented reusable AWS CDK constructs to be used across the company’s teams to enable faster onboarding with AWS
- Coached on AWS topics, distributed software patterns, security, domain-driven design, agile collaboration and documentation to improve performance and collaboration
- Technologies: AWS, GitHub Actions, ETL, monitoring, operations, TypeScript, Python, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Java, Docker, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, serverless, Jenkins, DevOps principles
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
Niels Majer
Last position:
Senior Software Developer / Cloud Architect at Biesterfeld SE
- Architected ETL services for event-driven data exchange between enterprise systems on a Kafka streaming backbone.
- Optimized CI/CD pipelines for Azure AKS deployments and improved OpenSearch monitoring and alerting for proactive incident detection.
Tech: Java / Kotlin, Quarkus, Kafka / Avro, Azure / AKS, Azure Storage Container, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, OpenSearch, Terraform
Alexandre Savio
Last position:
Cloud Engineer at Dectris AG
- Build a scalable multi-region backend service in AWS to serve remote desktop virtual machines for scientific analysis
- Stack: AWS, GitHub, Terraform, Python, Rust
- Built and defined the core infrastructure of the backend system
- Defined and coded the virtual machines provisioning supporting Ubuntu and Rocky Linux desktop setups
- Programmed the API service running in ECS to manage virtual machines and build custom Docker images for users
Alexander Gottschlich
Last position:
DevOps / Platform Engineer at Cologne Intelligence GmbH
- Built and operated an AWS Landing Zone with Terraform / OpenTofu (multi-account structure, IAM baselines, network and security standards)
- Designed and operated platform-oriented AWS architectures to standardize infrastructure and operations processes
- Built and operated Kubernetes-based platforms (EKS) as a shared runtime environment for application teams
- Established GitOps-based deployments with Argo CD and FluxCD
- Developed and operated central CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Enabled developer and project teams with reusable platform components
- Introduced and implemented FinOps structures (AWS Cost Explorer, CUR + Athena, Infracost, Grafana dashboards)
- Built and operated central observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, CloudWatch)
Achille Chimi
Last position:
Backend/Frontend Developer at ITZ-Bund
Development of a microservice application for calculating postings on accounts
Development of backend components with Java or JEE, Quarkus, Kafka, Rest API
Development of the test component with mocking frameworks (Mockito)
Development of integration test components
Creation of OpenAPI specification format
Configuration of CI/CD pipeline
Development of frontend components with React
Design, further development and optimization of system structures
Code review
Java Corretto 21, JEE, Quarkus, Golang
Reactive programming with Spring WebFlux, Project Reactor
Git, Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline, YAML, Json Swagger UI, Postman, Rest OpenAPI, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Log4J
Microservices, Jira, Confluence, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes (deployment via Helm charts)
Spring Security, OAuth 2, JWT, Sonarqube
IntelliJ, Maven, logging framework Splunk, Agile method Scrum, Nexus, Vaadin V24, build tool Vite
React, React.JS, Node.js, Jess/JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, Agile method Scrum, accessibility BITV, Playwright
Mathew Divine
Last position:
Data Science Expert and AI Strategist at Freelancer
- Built an API to ingest, clean, translate, and index EU tenders documents in Neo4j, enabling hybrid search with RAG and Cypher queries via a Streamlit dashboard
- Deployed the API on AWS Lightsail container services with CI/CD automation via GitHub Actions, ensuring stability through pytest unit and integration tests
- Designed and developed a comprehensive online course on data analysis using ChatGPT for professionals and learners, creating instructional videos and interactive Jupyter notebooks
- Utilized OBS and professional audio equipment to ensure high-quality video and audio content
- Led a CRM data normalization and cleaning project visualized via a Sankey diagram to aid customer understanding and pipeline development
- Implemented and validated a genAI-driven web crawling strategy on AWS, ensuring data quality, scalability, and CRM data augmentation
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Statistics of experts using AWS CDK
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
16 years
Position duration
1.9 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Automotive, Retail
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
80%
Master's degree or higher
47%
Doctorate
10%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
English, German, Russian
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 Germany using AWS CDK
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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
Infrastructure as code
AWS CDK turns infrastructure into code you can review, test, and reuse. It fits teams that want to define AWS resources in TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, or Go instead of hand-editing CloudFormation templates.
What experts deliver
- VPCs, ECS services, Lambda stacks, and IAM layouts
- Reusable constructs for shared cloud patterns
- Pipeline-ready deployments and environment setup
- CloudFormation synthesis and stack updates
Tooling and ecosystem
Strong specialists work across the CDK CLI, CloudFormation, AWS SDKs, and common app stacks such as Node.js and Python. They know how to handle bootstrapping, contexts, cross-stack references, and safe deploy workflows.
When companies bring help
Teams usually bring in AWS CDK expertise when infrastructure has grown messy, deployments break often, or new services need to follow the same pattern. In Germany, this often comes up in product teams, regulated industries, and cloud migration work where clear infrastructure ownership matters.
What strong specialists know
Good professionals understand AWS service behavior, not just CDK syntax. They write code that is modular, testable, and easy to keep in sync with the AWS account structure, security rules, and release process.
Common project types
- New CDK foundations for greenfield AWS environments
- Migration from raw CloudFormation or Terraform modules
- Multi-account and multi-stage deployment setup
- Cleanup of legacy stacks and construct libraries
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about AWS CDK.
AWS CDK is used to define AWS infrastructure in code, then synthesize it into CloudFormation stacks. Teams use it for networking, compute, serverless apps, IAM, data services, and deployment pipelines. It is a good fit when you want reusable cloud patterns instead of manual console changes.
AWS CDK sits on top of CloudFormation and gives you familiar programming languages, reusable constructs, and better abstraction for complex AWS setups. CloudFormation is more direct and declarative, while Terraform is broader across vendors. Companies often choose CDK when AWS is the main target and code reuse matters most.
A strong AWS CDK specialist also understands CloudFormation, IAM, AWS networking, and at least one supported language such as TypeScript or Python. They should be comfortable with stacks, constructs, environments, bootstrapping, and deployment pipelines. Experience with testing infrastructure code is a strong signal of quality.
A AWS CDK freelancer can start with a small scope, but the best results come when they understand your AWS account layout, security model, and release process. For new foundations or migration work, they need access to current stack definitions and a clear picture of target services. For smaller fixes, they can often work from the existing repository and pipeline.
AWS CDK works well in both, but the approach differs. Greenfield projects benefit from reusable constructs and clean stack design, while legacy systems often need careful refactoring from raw CloudFormation or hand-built scripts. A good specialist will choose small, safe steps when moving old infrastructure into CDK.
Yes. AWS CDK work is usually easy to do remotely because most tasks live in code, pull requests, and deployment pipelines. For teams in Germany, the main need is clear communication around AWS access, security reviews, and review timing with internal stakeholders.
Look for clear stack boundaries, reusable constructs, and code that reads like production software, not just one-off scripts. A solid AWS CDK expert can explain the generated CloudFormation, deployment risks, and rollback strategy. They should also handle permissions and naming in a way that stays maintainable over time.
Companies usually bring in AWS CDK help when deployments are hard to trust, infrastructure is duplicated across teams, or new services need a standard pattern. Other common cases include account bootstrapping, multi-stage rollouts, and cleanup after fast growth. The right specialist makes the cloud setup easier to change without losing control.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used AWS CDK in their recent projects is 100 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 798 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used AWS CDK in their recent projects, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 47% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used AWS CDK in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used AWS CDK in their recent projects are English (100%), German (98%), and Russian (15%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used AWS CDK in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Automotive (63%), and Retail (49%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used AWS CDK in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (88%), and Operations (61%).
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