CI/CD Experts in Vienna
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Chrisabel Prischl
Last position:
AI Systems & Product Strategy Expert at Webmeisterin
I build. I advise. I think in systems. After years leading digital transformation at scale — Accenture, BP, Lidl — I made a deliberate choice: trade platform dependency for structural independence. My focus is at the intersection of AI systems, product strategy, and venture thinking. I work with operators and founders who want to move fast without losing control — of their data, their stack, their direction.
John Ampia-Addison
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.
Alexander Vasilenko
Last position:
Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Architect at A.S.E. | Business Solutions for Construction
- Architected and deployed a highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for business-critical microservices.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy using Terraform for managing GKE clusters, networking (VPCs, Subnets), and IAM policies.
- Engineered optimized storage solutions for stateful workloads (MongoDB) using GKE PersistentVolumes, enhancing performance and data resiliency.
- Established a full-stack observability framework using Google Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Marcel Steger
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.
Nikola Neloski
Last position:
Founder and CEO - Senior Business Analyst at fintechno AI GmbH
- Business analysis
- Requirements engineering
- System design
- Various insurance projects
- Technology stack: msg.Billing (in-/ex-collection)
- Product: Pay-per-use car insurance based on blockchain and OBD-II real-time telemetry with AI
Jori Martini
Last position:
Agile IT Manager Healthcare Systems at MA01 Gov. Digital City
- Responsible for managing GMP-critical systems
- Leading a team of 20 professionals
- Vendor management with a €15M annual budget
Alexander Lechner
Last position:
Guest lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (Master’s Level) at FH des BFI Wien
- Teaching & presenting
- Communication
- Effectively communicate complex technical topics to non-technical audiences through lectures
- Guided non-technical students from zero knowledge to confidently understanding and applying algorithms to achieve business outcomes
Plamen Mirchev
Last position:
Head of Service & Operations Management at Raiffeisen Bank International
- Shaping service management framework as part of head office of RBI
- Service owner overseeing IT cloud services, accountable for overall quality, lifecycle, and success
- Managing customer relationships and satisfaction for 10 business units ensuring smooth business continuity and operations
- Single point of contact and service/process owner providing T-shaped expertise in IT domains, cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Orca, CRM, GitHub, SFMC)
- ITSM/ITIL implementation and mentoring including design, definition, mapping, and execution
- Change and release management, UAT/test assurance, major incident management, SDLC management
- Managing regulatory and audit requirements, DORA, GDPR, ITPF compliance and reporting
- Acting as a point of escalation for complex customer issues, resolving conflicts, fostering a customer-centric culture
- People management: leading and managing service delivery teams, DevOps, vendors, and third-party teams
- Cross-tribe service delivery and contract management: KPIs, SLAs, OLAs, RPO, RTO, BCM/SCM management
- Agile/Scrum process delivery governance, stakeholder communication, and budget/cost management
Fabio Galvagni
Last position:
IT Architect, Requirements Analyst and Consultant at CANCOM
- Supports CANCOM customers in migrating legacy on-prem systems to Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Foundry
- Takes over and stabilizes existing solutions after a short handover
- Business analysis and requirements engineering for migration to a new cloud environment
- Optimization of machine learning models for feature extraction and customer profiling
- Ensures data protection and compliance
- Leads the migration of on-prem systems to Microsoft Fabric
- Designs new AI platforms for clients
- Tests the integration of chatbots for document intelligence with Microsoft Foundry, including requirements analysis, implementation, validation, and client communication
Ãœsame Turhan
Last position:
Java Backend Developer at Porsche Informatik
- Java EE 8 development
- Java 21 and Spring Boot 3 microservices development
- Release management
- Onboarding of new team members
- Owner of an team-internal "Best Code Engineering Award"
Sergiu Mocian
Last position:
IT Project Manager & Transformation Lead at OMV
- Program delivery: set-up of strategic initiatives from ideation to execution, designing cross-divisional operating models that streamlined delivery across 6 business units.+
- Large scale initiatives: IT project manager of eMobility mobile app development for entire group, cross-country and multi-year initiative, with budget oversight of >2Mn and 20 FTEs.
- Product lifecycle management: delivered the end-to-end SDLC of a key B2B digital mobility application, successfully launching to 10 000+ users while managing vendor partnerships and system architecture.
- Vendor oversight: successfully negotiated and managed multi-vendor contracts, with negotiated contract value of 30% with no impact on scope.
- Architecture definition: definition of system architectures to ensure scalable, cost-effective solutions for the pricing, logistics and mobility domains, integration of 3 back-end systems.
- Digital transformation & coaching: supported group-wide agile maturity as a coach, upskilling pool of over 40 professionals in Product Management to increase delivery predictability and ensure value-driven approach.
Benjamin Auer
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)
Jürgen Eckel
Last position:
Chief Executive Officer at Riddle&Code GmbH
- Pivoted the company into data-driven and AI-powered energy optimization solutions for microgrids, energy communities, and grid operators.
Joseph Wagner
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.
Michael Polivanov
Last position:
Strategy Consultant & Program Architect at Hypo Tirol Bank AG
- Portfolio Analysis & Migration Roadmap: Conducted structured analysis and risk classification of the HCL Notes infrastructure, created a prioritized migration portfolio with effort estimates as a key decision basis for management.
- Target Architecture & Modernization Concept: Developed the architecture strategy for retiring legacy applications, defined requirements for a centralized business process engine to reduce OPEX and licensing costs in the long term.
- Program Governance & Setup: Established roadmap and backlog structures as well as central project documentation (MS SharePoint), set up stakeholder management for the Notes decommissioning program.
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Statistics of experts using CI/CD
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
17 years (Austria: 16 years)
Position duration
2.4 years (Austria: 2.5 years)
Positions per freelancer
9 (Austria: 10)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Transportation
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
83% (Austria: 84%)
Master's degree or higher
65% (Austria: 56%)
Doctorate
17% (Austria: 14%)
Certifications per freelancer
4 (Austria: 3)
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100% (Austria: 98%)
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Vienna using CI/CD
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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
CI/CD in practice
CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment. It is the way teams turn code into tested, packaged, and releasable software without manual handoffs. Strong CI/CD work reduces release risk and keeps delivery predictable.
Common pipeline tools
CI/CD experts work across tools and cloud services that fit your stack.
- GitHub Actions and GitLab CI for code-centric pipelines
- Jenkins for flexible, self-hosted automation
- Azure DevOps for Microsoft-based delivery flows
- Docker, Kubernetes, and artifact repositories for packaging and release steps
What companies hire for
Companies bring in freelance specialists when releases slow down, pipelines break often, or environments drift. They also help when a team needs test automation, deployment gates, rollback plans, or a cleaner handoff from development to operations. In Vienna, this often matters for product teams, enterprise software, and regulated environments.
Skills that matter
A strong CI/CD professional understands source control, build systems, test stages, secrets handling, and infrastructure as code. They know how to keep pipelines readable, secure, and easy to maintain. Just as important, they can explain trade-offs clearly and work well with product, security, and operations teams.
Typical delivery work
- Build or repair CI pipelines for apps, services, and monorepos
- Add automated checks for unit, integration, and security testing
- Set up release flows for staging and production
- Improve rollback, approvals, and deployment visibility
- Standardize pipelines across teams and environments
What good looks like
Good CI/CD work is boring in the right way. The pipeline runs the same way every time, failures are easy to trace, and releases can be repeated without guesswork. A careful specialist documents the flow, removes brittle steps, and leaves your team with a setup they can own.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with CI/CD? These answers cover the essentials.
CI/CD is used to automate the path from code changes to tested releases. It helps teams merge often, catch problems early, and ship with less manual effort. In practice, it covers builds, tests, packaging, deployment, and rollback steps.
CI/CD is not the same as DevOps, but it is one of the core practices inside it. DevOps is broader and also includes collaboration, monitoring, and operating software in production. A good specialist usually works across both delivery automation and release discipline.
A strong CI/CD specialist often works with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker, and Kubernetes. The right tool depends on your codebase, hosting model, and team habits. Good experts can adapt the pipeline to your existing stack instead of forcing a new one.
CI/CD replaces slow, manual release steps with repeatable automation. Traditional workflows often rely on hand-built packages, manual testing, and late-stage deployment checks, which makes changes harder to trust. CI/CD brings those checks earlier and keeps the release process consistent.
A solid CI/CD freelancer should also understand source control, testing, scripting, containerization, and infrastructure as code. Knowledge of cloud services, secret management, and observability is often useful too. The best experts can discuss delivery as both a technical and operational problem.
A simple CI/CD setup may need only one focused specialist, while a larger platform overhaul often needs someone who has worked across several delivery systems. The main factor is complexity: number of services, compliance needs, deployment targets, and how much legacy automation already exists. For critical release paths, deeper practical experience matters more than tool familiarity.
Yes, CI/CD work is often well suited to remote delivery because pipeline changes can be reviewed, tested, and documented in code. For teams in Vienna, remote work is common, but on-site sessions can help when the specialist needs to map release flow with operations or security stakeholders. Clear communication in English is usually enough for technical collaboration.
A good CI/CD expert leaves behind a pipeline that is stable, understandable, and easy to maintain. Look for clean stage design, sensible test coverage, secure secrets handling, and clear failure messages. They should also explain why each step exists and what trade-offs were made.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used CI/CD in their recent projects is 96 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 769 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used CI/CD in their recent projects, 83% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 65% hold at least a Master's degree, and 17% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used CI/CD in their recent projects have 17 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used CI/CD in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (19%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used CI/CD in their recent projects are Information Technology (89%), Banking and Finance (48%), and Transportation (37%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used CI/CD in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (70%), and Quality Assurance (63%).
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