CI/CD Experts in Switzerland
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Frank Gulitz
Last position:
Agile Coach and Program Manager at Centris AG
The insurance application service provider in Switzerland intended to develop a multi-channel output system to support their customers on their digital enhancement journey.
- Established an Agile Release Train based on SAFe 6.0
- Trained all ART leadership
- Coached the development of the solution intent
- Established 5 teams in the ART. Developed the Epic and Feature Backlog for the team.
- Planned and coached 2 PI planning sessions
The insurance application service provider in Switzerland intended to transform their claims management BPO and IT team into an agile delivery organization.
- Established an Agile Release Train based on SAFe 6.0
- Trained all ART leadership
- Coached the development of the solution intent
- Established 2 teams in an ART.
- Developed the Epic and Feature Backlog for the team.
- Planned and coached 2 PI planning sessions
Gwang Jin Kim
Last position:
Data Scientist / Applied AI, Automation & Data Systems Researcher at Independent
- Built and explored applied GenAI, RAG, GraphRAG, local LLM, agentic AI and document-intelligence prototypes for structured analysis, evidence extraction, semantic search, technical reasoning and decision-useful reporting
- Developed private local-LLM workflows and AI system patterns focused on privacy, reproducibility, reviewability, low-cost inference and practical user control
- Built reproducible Python/R workflows for data analysis, automation, API-driven tooling, validation logic, technical documentation and AI-assisted software development
- Designed workflows around explicit assumptions, traceable inputs, reviewable outputs and failure-mode awareness rather than black-box “looks good” demonstrations
- Supported RAHN AG in a chemical/regulatory environment with data extraction and processing around WERCS, a regulatory application for chemical product and compliance data
- Explored complex application/database schemas and wrote nested SQL queries to extract information for mixture calculations, component relationships, regulatory rules and reporting logic
- Continued hands-on development in Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, Docker/Linux deployment patterns, REST/API workflows, error handling, technical writing and fast AI-assisted prototyping
- Built technical writing and documentation workflows that turn complex systems into clear runbooks, checklists, decision notes and user-facing explanations
Nikita Verkhoshintcev
Last position:
Salesforce Technical Architect at Fennia
- Designed and engineered a shared web component library for a customer portal serving 360,000+ private users and integrated the LWC framework with Storybook via Rollup.
- Resolved WCAG AA compliance issues to support strict accessibility requirements.
- Integrated legacy systems into a new portal via REST API to support existing products.
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
Milan Simonović
Last position:
Cloud Architect & DevOps at Avaloq
- Main cloud solution architect on a banking SaaS offering hosted in Azure.
- Fully automated the Azure infrastructure in Terraform.
- Reduced cloud costs by 50%.
- Responded to incidents, found root-causes and closed with post-mortems.
Ralf Ramge
Last position:
Security Architect at Federal Employment Agency
Responsibility for the design, migration, and integration of a security- and audit-critical HashiCorp Vault platform in the trust center of a nationwide authority with system-critical importance.
Analysis and realignment of the existing HashiCorp Vault landscape, including production and planned use cases
Design, proof-of-concept, migration, and integration of HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, taking into account the authority's PKI and operational processes
Design and implementation of an automated certificate and secrets management system for 300 Kubernetes clusters and several thousand certificates in the trust center
Securing the Vault platform using hardware security modules (HSM)
The solution enables a highly available, audit-compliant, and automated operation of certificate and secrets use cases in a highly regulated environment.
Technologies used: HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, Terraform, Ansible, OpenSSL, PKI, HSM
Venkata Renduchintala
Last position:
Continuous Learning at Personal Time Off
- ZHAW CAS Secure Software Design and Development
- German C1 and Goethe Certificate C1
- ETH CAS Cloud and Mobile Computing at ETH Zurich
- Linux Foundation Linux System Administration LFS307
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes Fundamentals LFS258
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes for Application Developers LFD459
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes Security Fundamentals LFS460
Reinhold Schätz
Last position:
Senior Software Developer at Hitachi Energy
- Support and further development of the Leegoo Builder
- Handling ad hoc requests
- Definition of rules/attributes and their rules
- Optimizing and managing SQL queries
Ahmed Rehman
Last position:
AI & Automation Engineer at Teosek GmbH
- Build prototypes, expand AI skills, and practical application in a startup context.
- Transition phase: further training in prompt engineering, APIs, AI, working on independent prototype projects, and collaborating at a friend's startup.
- Technologies: LangChain, REST, Python, Java, JS, TS, Node.
Patrick Riegler
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at Swisscard AECS AG
- PoC for various platform integration functionalities using Backstage and Crossplane
- Implementation of improvements of developer experience with Azure AVD and DevSpace
- Manage application deployment infrastructure on Kubernetes clusters
- Manage CI/CD platform
- Manage deployments into Kubernetes (Rancher and AKS) and into Azure
- Act as security champion of the DevOps team
- Manage vulnerabilities and support dev teams to manage third-party vulnerabilities using JFrog Xray
- Support building the platform team
- Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and Atlantis
- Build and integrate a platform and IDP using Crossplane
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.
Jürgen Albrecht
Last position:
Requirements Engineer / System Engineer at CCC Systems Engineering Suisse GmbH
- Supported design, setup, maintenance and enhancement of IBM Rational DOORS (9.6 and DNG) and IBM Rational Publishing Engine
- Conceived IT solutions and implemented them, including acceptance tests, considering customer-specific requirements
- Ensured functionality of tools and systems in scope
- Identified needs and advised departments and projects, designed single solutions when necessary
- Monitored and maintained central requirements engineering systems (servers, software, subcomponents)
- Advised on tool selection, features and application use cases for engineering applications
- Handled support requests from employees, customers and development teams autonomously
- Created system documentation and user guides
- Participated in cross-departmental IT projects and led subprojects
Yassin Ben Khalifa
Last position:
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Schweizerweg Gmbh
- Designed and executed automated and manual test cases for REST APIs and UI workflows using Selenide, Selenium, and Postman.
- Developed and maintained Gatling-based performance tests for simulating user load and validating system responsiveness and stability under stress.
- Integrated test suites into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, enabling rapid and reliable delivery cycles.
- Employed Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus to monitor logs, track metrics, and perform in-depth application performance monitoring (APM).
- Utilized Swagger for validating and documenting API contracts and ensuring consistency across environments.
- Created and managed isolated test environments using Docker, enabling reproducible and consistent test execution.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams using Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket for agile planning, documentation, and version control.
- Worked in a Java/Spring Boot tech stack, leveraging Maven for project build automation and IntelliJ IDEA for development and debugging.
Key Achievements:
- Built a reusable Selenide-based UI automation framework that reduced test creation time by over 50%.
- Automated end-to-end test scenarios for critical business workflows, increasing test coverage and release confidence.
- Designed a modular Gatling load testing framework, used for continuous performance benchmarking.
- Detected and resolved several critical production performance issues through proactive APM and stress testing.
Andreas Hetz
Last position:
Test Automation Architect at Banking Bank (name withheld)
- Set up a shift-left DevOps E2E system testing architecture
- Set up "DevOps Shift-left" E2E tests for 240+ applications
- Under NDA
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Statistics of experts using CI/CD
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years
Position duration
2 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Insurance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
61%
Doctorate
6%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
English, German, French
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 Switzerland using CI/CD
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
Delivery pipelines
CI/CD is the practice of moving code from commit to release through automated build, test, and deployment steps. It helps teams ship changes with less manual work and fewer release surprises. Strong professionals turn fragile handoffs into repeatable delivery paths.
What they build
- Build pipelines for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps
- Automate unit, integration, security, and release checks
- Set up deployments to Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and on-prem systems
- Add approvals, rollbacks, and release gates for safer delivery
Common signs
Companies usually bring in freelance CI/CD specialists when releases are slow, builds fail often, or teams rely on manual steps. It also helps when a product team is moving to microservices, container platforms, or a better DevOps setup. In Switzerland, this often fits teams that need remote support while working with English, German, or French across distributed groups.
Tools and ecosystems
The stack depends on the delivery flow, but the core tools are familiar: Git, pipeline runners, artifact repositories, container images, and secrets handling. Many experts also work with infrastructure as code, observability, and policy checks so the pipeline covers more than just compile and deploy. Good professionals fit the toolchain to the product, not the other way around.
What strong experts do
A strong CI/CD specialist knows how to keep automation fast, safe, and understandable. They remove brittle steps, make failures easy to trace, and shape pipelines around branching, testing, and release rules. They also document what happens when a build breaks so teams can recover without guesswork.
Switzerland delivery context
For Swiss companies, CI/CD work often supports regulated products, enterprise software, internal platforms, and customer-facing web services. Freelance experts can join for a pipeline redesign, a cloud migration, or a release stabilization phase. The best results come when the expert can work cleanly with local stakeholders and remote teams alike.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to CI/CD.
CI/CD is the set of automated steps that builds, tests, and releases software with less manual effort. CI stands for continuous integration, where code changes are merged and verified often; CD usually means continuous delivery or continuous deployment. In day-to-day work, it is the pipeline that turns source code into a tested release.
A strong CI/CD specialist is useful when releases are slow, flaky, or too manual. Companies also bring in freelance expertise when they need to standardize pipelines across teams, move to containers, or improve release safety. If build and deployment work is blocking product delivery, outside help is often the fastest fix.
CI/CD is the automation layer for build, test, and release work. DevOps is broader and covers culture, collaboration, infrastructure, monitoring, and operating practices. Many professionals work across both, but a CI/CD specialist focuses first on the delivery pipeline and the controls around it.
A CI/CD setup often includes GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar pipeline tools. It may also include Docker, Kubernetes, artifact storage, secret management, and infrastructure as code. The exact stack depends on the product, but the best specialists know how these pieces fit together.
A good CI/CD professional usually understands Git workflows, testing strategy, containers, and cloud or server environments. Security scanning, release approvals, observability, and infrastructure as code are also important in many projects. Those skills help the pipeline stay reliable after the first rollout.
Not every CI/CD task needs a very senior profile, but complex release flows usually benefit from one. Simple build automation can be handled quickly, while multi-service deployments, compliance checks, and rollback design need deeper experience. A good freelancer should match the project depth, not just the tool name.
Yes, most CI/CD work can be done remotely because the key artifacts are repositories, pipeline definitions, and deployment rules. For Swiss teams, the main question is often coordination across time zones, language, and approval processes. On-site time is mainly useful for kickoff workshops, sensitive environments, or incident recovery.
Look for a CI/CD specialist who can explain pipeline choices clearly and show how they improved reliability, speed, or release safety. Strong signs include clean pipeline design, solid testing coverage, secure secret handling, and practical rollback plans. Ask for examples of broken builds they fixed and how they prevented the same issue from returning.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used CI/CD in their recent projects is 114 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 910 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used CI/CD in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 61% hold at least a Master's degree, and 6% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used CI/CD in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used CI/CD in their recent projects are English (100%), German (95%), and French (39%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used CI/CD in their recent projects are Information Technology (97%), Banking and Finance (63%), and Insurance (42%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used CI/CD in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Product Development (89%), and Quality Assurance (55%).
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