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Karen Manukyan
Last position:
Personal AI Engineering Project — Croky AI at Crocky AI
Product:
- Built a production-ready AI platform for generating brand-aware marketing images and videos from product data, user requirements, and uploaded media.
- Own the platform architecture, technical roadmap, API design, security, deployment workflow, operational reliability, and model-provider strategy.
- Developed the core platform in .NET and built supporting AI and workflow prototypes in Python, applying language-independent API contracts and structured interfaces between services and model providers.
- Implemented reliable background processing with RabbitMQ, persisted workflow state, idempotent handling, retries, failure recovery, logging, secure storage, authorization, and credit accounting.
- Made pragmatic build-versus-buy and model-routing decisions based on reliability, latency, cost, and maintainability rather than novelty.
Agent Orchestration & RAG Systems
- Built and compared agent workflows using Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, and LangChain, including tool use, conditional routing, clarification steps, state management, and hand-offs between agents.
- Implemented reusable .NET components for agents, prompts, tools, model providers, structured responses, and retrieval with pyvector, making it easier to change AI providers without rewriting the core workflow.
Tamás Eppel
Last position:
Senior Software Developer / Tech Lead at NDA (defense / OSINT)
- Designing the audit logging framework
- Implementing APIs for developers to integrate in their codebase
- Implementing ingestion pipeline, database query layer and UI for browsing the audit events
- Improving stability and reliability of the backend system
Tezcan Dilshener
Last position:
Solution Architect / Project Manager at German Football Association
- Overall responsibility for the project lifecycle from scope definition to completion
- Close collaboration with platform teams, IT leaders, and external service providers
- Application of SAFe principles and structured sprint work
- Creation of a migration roadmap with clear milestones
- Monitoring of the lifecycle: onboarding, repository migration, replication of permissions, and system tests
- Visualization of the architecture with PlantUML and Gliffy as well as documentation in Confluence
- Regular status reports and running knowledge transfer sessions
Damian Åšniatecki
Last position:
CTO at FRATCH.IO
- Managed end-to-end product development, overseeing the successful delivery of technical solutions.
- Led and mentored a team of highly specialised technical professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
- Oversaw the hiring process to build a talented and dedicated team.
- Built a scalable and robust backend microservices system from scratch, designing and extending it to meet evolving business needs.
- Ensured the system's high availability with a 99.99% up time, implementing resilient architecture and monitoring mechanisms.
- Developed and implemented technical strategies, aligning them with business goals and objectives.
Omar Ashour
Last position:
Senior Fullstack AI Engineer (Team Lead – B2C Platform) at mama health
- Partner directly with C-level leadership (CEO, CAIO, CTO) on architecture, OKR strategy, and cross-team roadmap prioritization, translating strategic goals into structured engineering requirements.
- Surfaced and mapped technical debt across the entire organization with C-level leadership and co-defined a prioritized remediation strategy, balancing debt paydown against feature delivery.
- Led code reviews and technical standards across the team, fostering a mentor-first environment with two-way feedback dialogue — pairing on complex pipeline work and unblocking junior engineers on async architecture patterns.
- Re-architected the AI companion's core processing pipeline from synchronous to asynchronous with a queue-based worker architecture, enabling horizontal scalability and cutting upload processing time ~4x (from ~22s to 5–10s) while improving response accuracy.
- Designed an AI-driven document intelligence workflow with automatic multi-document classification, per-document summarization, and relevance guardrails for the patient care journey.
- Built a unified patient memory system (short- and long-term context) bridging the document vault and chatbot into a single bidirectional, context-aware platform.
Hans-Christian Riess
Last position:
AI Voice Systems Consultant at QuantaLingo
Consulting and prototype work on AI voice and multilingual agent systems, using AI-assisted delivery across realtime translation prototypes, call-centre automation, and voice-to-voice consultation workflows.
- Built and advised on AI voice / agentic conversation prototypes, including realtime translation and consumer-facing consultation experiences.
- Worked across call-centre automation, voice UX, product architecture, implementation tradeoffs, and prototype development.
Anton Lorani
Last position:
Freelance Software Developer at Anton Lorani Software&AI Engineering
Christoph Hansen
Last position:
PMO Lead at System Technology Defense
- Planning, establishment, and leadership of a Program Management Office (PMO) as the central unit for the operational control of the overall program with tasks including:
- Defining and developing the optimal project management processes for the program.
- Creating and introducing a monitoring & controlling process to manage the timely delivery of deliverables.
- Creating the overall program plan with schedules, budget & cost plans, resource planning, and deliverables planning.
- Selecting and managing external service providers and monitoring contract compliance.
- Defining and executing program risk management and developing mitigating actions.
- Developing efficient reporting for the overall program to meet all stakeholder groups. Defining and creating key program KPIs using earned value analysis and milestone trend analysis.
- Providing and adjusting necessary IT tools for communication and documentation (Confluence, Jira, Teams, etc.).
- Defining and executing project change management.
- Planning and running all management meetings, including steering committee, management meetings, and board presentations.
- Preparatory alignment, planning, and organization of the group project as a basis for the execution phase.
- Selecting and staffing the program core team and the extended project team with a total of 70 participants.
- Planning the project organization, reporting and decision-making paths, and governance at the operational and strategic levels.
Hussein Gaafer
Last position:
Senior Product Manager at PagoNxt (Banco Santander Group)
- Retained post-acquisition (Wirecard to PagoNxt) as key product leader to drive platform migration and product transformation
- Led discovery-to-launch automation of 20+ multi-step onboarding workflows on a 22-system integration platform, cutting activation time by ~90% and reducing operational costs
- Launched Salesforce-based regulated B2B onboarding portals in UK & Spain, enabling new market entry
- Entrusted to recover a delayed, company-critical program; restructured a 20+ member team and revamped Agile processes, stabilizing execution in 6 weeks
- Coordinated platform migration to PagoNxt infrastructure across 12 teams, shipped 3 weeks early, maintaining a 99.9% uptime SLO
- Conceived a self-serve onboarding app for internal teams, validated MVP, and scaled it into a core system
- Owned the product roadmap and quarterly planning, prioritizing the backlog and making trade-offs to maximize delivery impact
- Improved delivery processes across teams, boosting collaboration, and speeding up throughput by ~30%
- Interviewed and onboarded 8+ PMs and engineers across teams; mentored key hires, improving delivery speed and cross-team execution
- Guided architecture discussions to balance rapid delivery, scalability, and long-term business goals
- Led product discovery workshops, validating hypotheses and driving data-informed feature improvements
Alexandru Gunescu
Last position:
Head of Cloud Infrastructure at BP
- Migrated the Electric Vehicle Charging SaaS App of the EV Division from on-premises and Azure to AWS Cloud, resulting in a hybrid multi-cloud multi-tenant solution
- Developed a streaming data pipeline using AWS MSK for Apache Kafka and implemented an event-driven architecture to ingest and process near real-time data from OCPI-protocol IoT devices
- Implemented multi-tenant strategies including database schema isolation, bridge model for resource sharing, and tenant-based RBAC controls
- Provisioned Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS with namespaces and RBAC for tenant isolation
- Led migration from on-premises and Azure to AWS using AWS DataSync, Snowball, and Database Migration Service
- Orchestrated collaboration across 5+ systems, vendors, service providers, and on-site teams
- Supported development and maintenance of IT strategy aligned with business requirements
- Managed €40 million infrastructure budget with AWS & Azure cost optimization, achieving 15% savings
- Led 50+ developers to implement advanced database procedures, increasing productivity by 20%
- Spearheaded multi-cloud, multi-tenant infrastructure migration for 30% faster processing times
- Negotiated vendor pricing to reduce payroll/benefits administration costs by 20%
- Developed a two-year infrastructure technology roadmap yielding 25% cost savings
- Tech stack: Kubernetes on AWS EKS, Docker, Kafka/AWS MSK, Terraform, AWS CDK, TypeScript, React, NextJS, Node.js, NestJS, Python, Aurora Serverless, RDS (MySQL, SQL Server), GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, AWS Security Hub, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS DataSync, AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, Odoo, Microsoft Navision, MS Dynamics
Frederik Lipfert
Last position:
Founder at Tech Lunch Club
- Founded and organized a curated networking event connecting startup founders, executives, and tech leaders over lunch.
- Facilitated discussions on emerging technologies, AI, and business innovation, fostering collaboration between the startup and corporate worlds.
- Built a thriving industry community, creating meaningful business opportunities.
Claudius Porath
Last position:
IT Consultant on Temporary Assignment at YER Talents GmbH
- Release Management
- Project Management
- Business Analysis
- Scrum
- SAFe
Konstantin Mirny
Last position:
Architect, Software Developer at IPG Photonics
- Defined initial system and software architecture
- Implemented application modules and hardware control layers
- Built test and mock environments to support validation
- Developed hardware drivers and low-level communication routines
- Authored technical documentation for internal and external stakeholders
- Tools: C/C++, QML, Linux, Windows, Raspberry PI, MQTT, CAN, Serial
Stephan Menzel
Last position:
SAP
- Consulting and development for VR usage scenarios in industrial contexts
- Digital Twin, Unreal Engine VR deployments, Multi-user networking, Cloud infrastructure
- Technologies: AWS, Google Cloud, other Cloud Services; C++; Unreal Engine 5; Android, Meta Quest
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Statistics of experts using Distributed Systems
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years
Position duration
2.3 years
Positions per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
78%
Doctorate
22%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
About the technology
What it covers
Distributed systems connect multiple machines so they act like one service. They power cloud backends, event-driven products, data pipelines, and systems that must keep running under load or failure. Strong experts know when to split a system, how to keep data consistent, and how to make services communicate cleanly.
Common work
- Service decomposition and API design
- Message queues, streams, and event processing
- Replication, sharding, and failover
- Observability for tracing, logs, and metrics
- Consistency, retries, and timeout handling
Ecosystem
Work in this field often spans Kafka, RabbitMQ, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud services from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Many projects also touch cache layers, databases, and service mesh tools. In Munich, these skills are common in enterprise software, mobility, finance, and data-heavy product teams.
When to hire
Bring in freelance specialists when a system is slow, hard to scale, or too fragile after outages. They help during platform redesigns, incident recovery, cloud migration, and new architecture reviews. Companies also hire them when internal teams need help with distributed computing patterns, not just local code changes.
What strong experts do
Good professionals think in failure modes, not only in features. They design for partial outages, backpressure, duplicate messages, and safe rollouts. They write clear trade-offs, help teams choose between synchronous and asynchronous flows, and leave systems easier to operate.
Remote or on-site
Many distributed systems tasks can be done remotely, especially design reviews, incident analysis, and code work. On-site time in Munich helps when teams need architecture workshops, cross-team alignment, or fast access to production context. The best freelancers adapt to English or mixed-language teams and document decisions clearly.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Distributed Systems? Start with the answers below.
They usually mean help with Distributed Systems design, service communication, and reliability across multiple nodes or services. That can include APIs, messaging, data replication, failover, and performance tuning. The goal is a system that keeps working when parts of it fail.
Distributed Systems is the broader field; microservices are only one way to build them. A freelancer may work on microservices, but also on queues, stream processing, shared data design, or cluster behavior. If your issue is consistency or failure handling, the scope is usually larger than microservices alone.
A good Distributed Systems specialist usually also understands networking, Linux, cloud infrastructure, databases, and observability tools. They should be comfortable with Kafka or RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, and deployment troubleshooting. Clear writing matters too, because trade-offs must be documented for the whole team.
Choose a Distributed Systems expert when a product depends on scale, uptime, or coordination between many services. Typical signs are flaky retries, data drift, hard-to-debug incidents, or slow cross-service calls. General backend knowledge helps, but it is not enough for architecture-level decisions.
Most Distributed Systems work can be done remotely because design, coding, and incident review live in documents and tickets. On-site time in Munich can help for workshops, production handovers, or sensitive system reviews. Many teams use a mix of both, especially when several groups share the same platform.
Ask for systems they have designed, failures they have handled, and the trade-offs they made. A strong Distributed Systems professional explains consistency, latency, retries, idempotency, and rollback plans in plain language. Good answers are specific, calm, and tied to real production problems.
A Distributed Systems engagement often includes Kafka, REST, gRPC, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud services. The exact stack depends on whether the system is event-driven, service-based, or data-heavy. The key is not the tool list alone, but how the pieces behave under load and failure.
Prepare a simple view of the current architecture, the main pain points, and the production symptoms you see. A Distributed Systems freelancer can move faster when logs, metrics, service diagrams, and incident notes are easy to access. Clear goals help them focus on the right bottleneck instead of guessing.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Distributed Systems in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 78% hold at least a Master's degree, and 22% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Distributed Systems in their recent projects have 21 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 Distributed Systems in their recent projects are English (100%), German (93%), and French (21%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Distributed Systems in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Manufacturing (43%), and Professional Services (43%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Distributed Systems in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Project Management (64%).
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