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Michael H.

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Product Owner & Project Manager | from concept to go-live - structured, hands-on and delivery-focused

Leipzig
Michael H.

Last position:

Project Coordinator (Product Development + SaaS) at Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA

As a project coordinator in development projects (consisting of software and hardware), I provide consulting support for creating recommendations for action and organizational frameworks in the areas of reporting, project scheduling, progress monitoring, resource allocation and results presentation.

  • Technology stack: Teams, Azure DevOps, Android
  • Keywords: Software, hardware, AI, MDM, Kanban, requirements specification, functional specification, SaaS, ergonomics, health, medical device
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Lucas J.

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Full-Stack Developer (WordPress, React.js)

Leipzig
Lucas J.

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Full-Stack Developer (WordPress, React.js) at Rabot Energy

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Sebastian P.

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Scrum Master & Agile Coach

Leipzig
Sebastian P.

Last position:

Scrum Master & Agile Coach at HUK-Coburg

Goal: Coach a new agile team to implement and deliver the MVP of an AI-powered digital insurance service.

  • Kicked off and coached a new cross-functional agile team as Scrum Master.
  • Introduced a new Product Owner to the role with coaching, close collaboration and support with daily operations and backlog management in Jira.
  • Facilitated the ideation, design and backlog creation process for the MVP, applying the appropriate tools and techniques (user journey mapping, impact mapping, story mapping, AI prototyping).
  • Managed dependencies and impediments across multiple teams, resolving challenges rising from the use of both agile frameworks and traditional project management methodologies.
  • Facilitated and supported planning and decision-making activities regarding the MVP delivery (roadmap creation, release planning, test management, translation of user feedback into product decisions)
  • Continuously improved processes across multiple agile teams, closely collaborating with other Scrum Masters and cross-team roles (leads, architect, test manager).
  • Designed and facilitated in-person and remote workshops as needed across multiple teams (agile practices, problem solving, process improvement, AI powered product development).
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Jens O.

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Freelance Java Developer / DevOps Engineer

Leipzig
Jens O.

Last position:

Freelance Java Developer / DevOps Engineer at Unpublished defense company

  • Extension of OSGi modules in a complex communication solution
  • Debugging communication with Wireshark and remotely in the JENS test environment
  • Migration of tests from TestNG to JUnit 5 with Mockito and AssertJ
  • Updating vulnerable dependencies and improving code quality
  • Changes to the Vaadin frontend
  • Increasing test coverage
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Benjamin H.

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Deputy Product Owner/Rollout Manager

Taucha
Benjamin H.

Last position:

Deputy Product Owner/Rollout Manager at Spirit Experts GmbH für Diconium Strategy GmbH

  • Acted as product owner for comprehensive change of Confluence permission structure
  • Introduced agile routines within the team
  • Identified team competencies and created user stories
  • Collected and analyzed stakeholder requirements
  • Translated business requirements into technical specifications
  • Created and maintained requirements documentation
  • Analyzed current state and defined goals collaboratively
  • Identified and resolved blockers and impediments
  • Coordinated with business and product owners
  • Facilitated solutions and workarounds
  • Established the roadmap and ensured timeline adherence
  • Provided continuous reporting to the business owner
  • Created a compliance-compliant project framework
  • Built and maintained a compliant documentation framework
  • Established and maintained a decision log
  • Developed technical requirements with regulatory considerations
  • Aligned with data security and legal department to set project principles
  • Managed stakeholders at C-level and compliance responsibilities
  • Developed video content and training materials
  • Coordinated ITSM Atlassian Service Management inquiries
  • Presented the project to diverse stakeholders in German and English
  • Prepared, conducted, and followed up on open Q&A sessions in German and English
  • Produced user-friendly instructional materials and interactive training documents
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Luis Z.

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Forward-Deployed Engineer · AI Deployment & Integration

Leipzig
Luis Z.

Last position:

Talent Partner + internal AI builder (GTM, DACH/EMEA) at Lucanet AG

  • Built an internal AI recruitment assistant (Python, LangChain, Claude API) and deployed it into the team's Greenhouse workflow: automated candidate screening, structured interview-feedback extraction from transcriptions, and comms across high-volume DACH/EMEA GTM pipelines. Scoped the need with TA/GTM leadership, shipped the tool, and drove day-to-day adoption, the same loop a forward-deployed engineer runs at a customer site.
  • Led ATS migration from Personio to Greenhouse across the whole team: data model, migration, and team adoption.
  • Ran discovery-style intake calls translating vague requests ("we need someone senior for Italy") into structured requirements, the muscle a forward-deployed engineer uses to scope a customer deployment. 80%+ offer acceptance, ~120% of quarterly targets. Discovery and delivery in EN, DE, ES, FR.
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Peter T.

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Freelance Go-Developer/DevOps-Engineer

Leipzig
Peter T.

Last position:

Freelance Go-Developer/DevOps-Engineer at IONOS SE

  • Implementation of an API for customers to provide NFS shares in the cloud
  • Creating Kubernetes operators and services with REST APIs in Go
  • Using LinuxKit for provisioning VMs
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Gwen G.

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Senior Consultant

Leipzig
Gwen G.

Last position:

Senior Ruby on Rails & DevOps Developer at Sapiens

Further development of a software solution for managing test requests and test notifications according to §106d SGB V for the Hamburg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.

  • Developed numerous features, performance optimizations, refactoring, error analysis
  • Refactored the dev container setup
  • Optimized the GitLab CI build pipeline
  • Contributed optimizations to the team workflow
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Julian H.

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Working Student / Master's Thesis Student Software Development

Leipzig
Julian H.

Last position:

Working Student / Master's Thesis Student Software Development at Scale GmbH

  • Tech-Stack: Python, Qt, tensorflow.js, plotly, Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Git
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Hannes W.

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Self-employed Developer

Leipzig
Hannes W.

Last position:

intermedix GmbH / CGM Deutschland AG

  • Rule-based software for managing, planning, and providing promotional materials in the pharmaceutical industry

  • High performance, high availability

  • Fullstack, DevOps (CI/CD)

  • Python, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, Typescript, Docker, Docker-Compose, Nginx

  • Successfully transformed old Excel-based processes into an optimized product that has been in production since 2024

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Norbert S.

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Technical training & open-source work

Leipzig
Norbert S.

Last position:

Technical training & open-source work at Personal Project

  • training and official certification as Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
  • open-source development and documentation in a personal project
  • keeping updated about cloud native and AI technologies through courses and books
  • Tech: Kubernetes, Docker, Typescript, Node.js
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Mostafa S.

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Freelance Senior Software Engineer & AI Consultant

Leipzig
Mostafa S.

Last position:

Freelance Senior Software Engineer & AI Consultant at Self-employed

  • Led the development of a complex geospatial data platform, engineering an end-to-end system for processing and analyzing high-resolution aerial imagery.
  • Engineered a scalable backend responsible for on-the-fly map tile serving and running complex data analysis queries using PostGIS and Python.
  • Developed and trained custom computer vision models using Python, PyTorch, and YOLOv8 to perform object detection and segmentation on large-scale datasets.
  • Built modern, responsive user interfaces and data visualization dashboards using Next.js, TypeScript, and React.
  • Gained practical expertise in geospatial libraries such as GDAL and Rasterio for processing and manipulating raster and vector data.
  • Managed the entire project lifecycle, from initial technical architecture and database design to final deployment using Docker.
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Jan B.

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API-Engineer

Leipzig
Jan B.

Last position:

API-Engineer at Freelance

  • API-first product design (OpenAPI 3, HAL) and development (NodeJS)
  • Setting up DevOps pipelines with GitHub Actions in an AWS architecture
  • Technologies: OpenAPI 3, REST, HAL, NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS, AWS Lambda, Docker, GitHub Actions
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Sebastián K.

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Smart Charging

Leipzig
Sebastián K.

Last position:

Smart Charging at Mercedes-Benz, MBTI

  • Agile software development in an interdisciplinary environment

  • Cross-team collaboration to achieve important milestones

  • Independently developing new and improving existing features

  • Estimation, refinement, implementation, and presentation

  • Finding solution ideas, analyzing problems, rolling out bug fixes

  • Writing automated tests, manual testing, log and error analysis

  • Ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of the production environment

  • Rolling out releases and multi-stage infrastructure

  • Setting up alerts and monitoring

  • Pair programming, code reviews, documentation

  • On-call duty, 3rd level support

  • Event-Driven Architecture, Clean Code, Hexagonal Architecture

  • Microservices based on Go (Gin), Java 21 (Spring Boot 3), Python (FastAPI)

  • Terraform/OpenTofu, KQL, SQL, JSON, REST, Helm, ArgoCD, AzureCLI, K9s, OAuth2

  • Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Azure EventHub, Kubernetes, nginx, Ingress

  • AppInsights, LogAnalytics, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, OpenAPI 3, Swagger

  • Azure DataExplorer, Storage, KeyVault, Container Registry, Azure Functions,…

  • Junit5/Jupiter, testify, RestAssured, Docker Compose, Wiremock

  • IntelliJ, Scrum, Kanban, Teams, Confluence, OpsGenie, Arc42

  • GitHub CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps

  • EV charging protocols (EVSE, OCPP, V1G, V2G)

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Statistics of experts using DevOps

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

18 years

DevOps experts in Leipzig have 18 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

1.9 years (Germany: 2.8 years)

DevOps experts in Leipzig stay in a single position for 1.9 years on average. It is 0.9 years less than in Germany, where the average stands at 2.8 years.

Positions per freelancer

13 (Germany: 12)

DevOps experts in Leipzig have completed 13 positions on average over the course of their careers. It is 1 more than in Germany, where the average stands at 12.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

DevOps experts in Leipzig have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

Top industries

Information Technology, Professional Services, Retail

DevOps experts in Leipzig are most in demand in Information Technology, Professional Services, and Retail.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development

DevOps experts in Leipzig earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Project Management, and Product Development.

Bachelor's degree or higher

93% (Germany: 91%)

93% of DevOps experts in Leipzig hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 2% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 91%.

Master's degree or higher

60% (Germany: 55%)

60% of DevOps experts in Leipzig hold at least a Master's degree. It is 5% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 55%.

Doctorate

7% (Germany: 8%)

7% of DevOps experts in Leipzig have a doctorate (PhD). It is 1% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 8%.

Certifications per freelancer

3

DevOps experts in Leipzig hold 3 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

English, German, Spanish

DevOps experts in Leipzig most often speak English, German, and Spanish.

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 97%)

100% of DevOps experts in Leipzig speak two or more languages. It is 3% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 97%.

Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.

Daily rate distribution

0 2 4 6 8
One of the DevOps experts in Leipzig charges less than €640 per day.
2 of the DevOps experts in Leipzig charge between €640 and €720 per day.
7 of the DevOps experts in Leipzig charge between €720 and €800 per day.
3 of the DevOps experts in Leipzig charge between €800 and €880 per day.
One of the DevOps experts in Leipzig charges between €880 and €960 per day.
One of the DevOps experts in Leipzig charges €1040 or more per day.
<€640 €640-​720 €720-​800 €800-​880 €880-​960 €1040+

The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Leipzig are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.

Average rates of experts in Leipzig using DevOps

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 753 €
Germany avg. 784 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 760 €
Germany median 800 €

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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

DevOps experts industry focus

See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.

  • Information Technology (100%)
  • Professional Services (50%)
  • Retail (50%)
  • Energy (44%)
  • Banking and Finance (44%)
  • Automotive (38%)
  • Manufacturing (38%)
  • Healthcare (31%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the technology

DevOps foundations

DevOps combines software delivery, infrastructure, security and operations into one continuous way of working. It helps teams release applications safely, recover quickly and manage systems consistently across development, testing and production. The approach may include DevSecOps practices and platform engineering.

What it builds

DevOps supports resilient digital products rather than a single software category. Companies use it for:

  • Automated build, test and release pipelines
  • Cloud platforms and containerized services
  • Infrastructure as code and repeatable environments
  • Monitoring, logging and incident response
  • Secure deployment workflows for regulated systems

Ecosystem and tooling

Professionals work across public cloud services, Linux, networking and identity systems. Common tools include Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Helm and Prometheus. Strong work connects these tools instead of treating them as isolated products.

When companies need help

Freelance expertise is useful when an internal team is moving from manual releases to CI/CD, migrating workloads to the cloud or standardizing environments. It also helps when deployments are unreliable, infrastructure has grown difficult to understand or production incidents lack clear ownership. In Leipzig, remote collaboration can support local product, industrial and technology teams without requiring daily on-site work.

Delivery responsibilities

A DevOps specialist may design pipeline architecture, codify infrastructure, configure Kubernetes workloads or improve release controls. The work can include secret management, access policies, disaster recovery, cost visibility and service-level monitoring. Good documentation and knowledge transfer make the result maintainable after the engagement ends.

Signs of strong expertise

The best professionals show practical judgment across delivery and operations, not just familiarity with tool names. Look for evidence of:

  • Safer releases with automated testing and rollback paths
  • Clear infrastructure code reviewed like application code
  • Useful dashboards, alerts and incident runbooks
  • Security controls built into delivery workflows
  • Communication with product, engineering and operations teams

They should explain trade-offs in plain language, measure improvements with meaningful operational signals and adapt their approach to the existing stack. German or English communication may be relevant for teams working in Leipzig.

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Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to the questions that come up most around DevOps.

DevOps is used to automate and connect software delivery, infrastructure management and IT operations. It supports repeatable releases, scalable cloud systems, observability, security controls and faster recovery from incidents.

DevOps brings delivery and operations closer through shared ownership, automation and continuous feedback. Traditional operations may rely more heavily on manual handovers and separate teams, while DevOps aims for repeatable changes and faster, safer releases.

DevOps is the broader approach covering collaboration, automation and operational responsibility. CI/CD focuses on building, testing and releasing software, while SRE applies software engineering practices to reliability; a strong specialist may work across all three areas.

DevOps work often requires Linux, networking, cloud architecture, scripting and security knowledge. Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, observability tools and identity management is useful when the assignment spans the full delivery lifecycle.

DevOps projects vary widely in complexity. A pipeline improvement may need focused expertise, while a cloud migration or production platform requires someone who has handled infrastructure design, security, incidents and operational handover in comparable environments.

DevOps work is often well suited to remote collaboration because repositories, cloud consoles, pipelines and monitoring systems are accessible online. On-site sessions in Leipzig can still help with discovery, stakeholder workshops, access setup and knowledge transfer.

DevOps quality is visible in repeatable deployments, useful alerts, controlled access and clear recovery procedures. Ask for concrete examples of trade-offs, automation decisions, incident learning and documentation rather than judging a specialist by tool names alone.

DevOps remains the foundation, but a project may need a sharper focus. Choose DevSecOps when security must be embedded in delivery controls, or platform engineering when teams need a self-service internal platform with consistent environments and guardrails.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects is 94 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 753 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects, 93% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 60% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects are English (100%), German (94%), and Spanish (25%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Professional Services (50%), and Retail (50%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Project Management (69%).

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