Elasticsearch Experts in Berlin
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Rüdiger Schulz
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Full-Stack Software Engineer / Consultant for Digitalization at ARTEVENT
Designed, built, and launched an internal event planning web application used by over 100 department leads for a large event, despite having no dedicated testing phase.
Ensured smooth, failure-free operation during first production use, leading to the tool being adopted for future events.
Automated catering calculations and related workflows, significantly reducing email communication and manual computation effort for meal planning.
Managed deployment and hosting on a Linux server using Coolify, including application setup and runtime operations.
Hired and guided a communication designer on UX while independently owning all technical decisions and implementation.
Santhosh Kannan
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Freelance Software Engineer at Zalando SE
- Support Authorization as a Service initiative for enterprise-scale authorization platform
- Incorporate comprehensive observability solutions into authorization infrastructure
- Provision and manage AWS infrastructure for authorization services
- Mentor development team on AWS and Kubernetes best practices
- Tech Stack: Java/Kotlin, Golang, Python, OPA, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana
Imran Ali
Last position:
Software Engineer II at LivePerson Germany GmbH
- Led development of 15+ microservices (Java 17, Spring Boot) driving customer interactions; migrated from on-prem to GCP Kubernetes, improving scalability and reducing infra cost by 20%.
- Optimized user services with CouchDB caching and API refactoring, cutting response times by 35% and enhancing customer experience.
- Implemented canary deployments, FluxCD GitOps, and CI/CD optimizations in GitLab, reducing release lead time by 25% and enabling zero-downtime rollouts.
- Set up Grafana health checks and Anodot alerts for latency, error, and throughput monitoring, reducing MTTR by 40%.
- Built secure APIs using OAuth2, DPoP, and Gatekeeper, integrated REST and GraphQL, and achieved 90%+ test coverage with unit and E2E tests.
- Mentored junior developers, promoted Agile best practices, and collaborated cross-functionally to deliver high-impact, reliable customer-facing features.
Wolfram Knan
Last position:
AI / Machine Learning Engineer (Projects & Applied AI) at UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHEON-SORBONNE & LIORA
- Designed and implemented a hybrid recommendation system (content-based + collaborative filtering)
- Built end-to-end ML pipelines including data processing, feature engineering, model training, and evaluation
- Developed RAG-based LLM systems using LangChain and vector databases for semantic search and knowledge retrieval
- Established MLOps workflows with MLflow for experiment tracking, versioning, and deployment readiness
- Implemented deep learning models (computer vision & classification) using PyTorch and TensorFlow
Nune Isabekyan
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Fractional CTO at OpsWorker
OpsWorker turns Kubernetes alerts into root-cause analyses, on top of the monitoring a team already runs. I lead the technical side: the agent architecture, the AWS infrastructure it runs on (fully inside EU regions), and the engineering decisions behind it, read-only in the cluster by default, human in the loop for judgment. The stack underneath: Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore, agents built with the Strands Agents SDK, the Claude and OpenAI APIs, and the Kubernetes API.
Alois Rietzler
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Senior Fullstack Developer at brandung GmbH
- Opt-in RAG extension over tenant-owned data sources (SharePoint, Confluence) on existing multi-tenant enterprise AI platform
- Architecture: ADRs, solution evaluations, permission strategy, cost modeling
- End-to-end SharePoint and Confluence connectors: OAuth consent flows, token refresh, metadata sync, search integration
- Permission resolution: ACL indexing at ingestion and query-time verification (document-level security)
- Elasticsearch hybrid search (semantic + keyword) with RRF scoring
- RAG chat with context injection and source citations
- Stack: Elastic Cloud, Elasticsearch, Docker, Northflank, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Prisma, Microsoft Graph API, Atlassian REST API, OAuth 2.0
Louis Guitton
Last position:
Freelance Solutions Architect and Machine Learning Engineer at Self-employed
- Develop and demonstrate solutions using GenAI software like langchain, vercel ai sdk, copilotkit
- Work with customers to understand their challenges and provide the best solutions based on open-source data products
- Build RAG and GraphRAG solutions using Neo4j, lancedb, and Postgres
- Deploy a LLMOps platform using kubernetes, terraform, helmfile, Arize phoenix, mlflow
- Architect and build data pipelines using dbt, Trino, Spark, Iceberg, Airflow, ArgoCD, terraform, kubernetes
- Delivered user-centred technical strategy for Agriculture 4.0 and precision livestock farming, helping my client secure funding from Bpifrance
- Delivered a prospecting tool for a leading French solar carport installer, using geospatial computing (GIS), speeding up the sales process
- Built digital twin architecture for solar carports and EV chargers, making real-time monitoring and smart charging possible
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
Hans-Christian Pahlig
Last position:
Senior Full Stack and AI Engineer at simpleshow
- Developed a Generative AI-based image recommendation engine for an AI video production system
- Implemented automatic image analysis with GPT-4o
- Built semantic vector search using OpenAI embeddings, MongoDB, and OpenSearch
- Tagged and indexed 4 million customer assets
- Redeveloped recommendation engine with a hybrid, balanced keyword and vector search plus filters
Jorge Pérez Suárez
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Software Engineer – AWS and Kubernetes Specialist at Citti
- Creation, maintenance and hardening of Kubernetes clusters employing Ansible and ArgoCD
- Keywords: Ansible, AWX, Kubernetes, NetApp, Prometheus, CI/CD ArgoCD, SSO, Fluent-bit, HAProxy, Calico, Keycloak, oauth2-proxy, SealedSecrets, kubeseal, Aqua kube-bench, CIS-Benchmarks, Aqua Trivy operator
Domenik Jones
Last position:
Python Engineer and Cloud Migration Consultant at Unknown
- Supported the company's transition from an on-premise architecture to AWS cloud services, modernizing infrastructure and optimizing operational efficiency.
- Leveraged expertise in automation and software implementation to enhance scalability, reliability and profitability.
- Implemented Poetry and Ruff to streamline Python dependency management and code quality checks, improving development efficiency and reducing errors.
- Implemented an automated CI/CD strategy with GitHub Actions, which decreased deployment times and minimized manual intervention.
- Enforced deployment automation for Kubernetes, enhancing the scalability and reliability of applications across the organization.
- Evaluated and implemented Apache Airflow for workflow management, leading to more efficient scheduling and monitoring of data pipelines.
- Created data interfaces for energy traders, enabling them to optimize profit margins through improved data analysis and decision-making tools.
Krishna Mareguddi
Last position:
Associate Product Manager at Carelon Global Healthcare LLP
- Defined and executed product vision & strategy, collaborating with UX, architecture, and engineering teams, resulting in a 30% improvement in user satisfaction across key product touchpoints.
- Owned end-to-end product lifecycle management, overseeing the launch of 5 major product updates, improving product efficiency and feature adoption by 25%.
- Defined and structured epics, features, and user stories; validated and ensured 100% of completed stories met definition of ‘Done' before release.
- Led backlog grooming, prioritization (WSJF, MoSCoW), and sprint planning, ensuring 95% on-time delivery of features in quarterly release cycles.
- Worked with technologies: API, Angular, Node, ReactNative (Mobile), SQL, Kafka, AWS cloud with ES (Elastic search) with JSON file indexes.
- Used Confluence and Jira for maintaining product details and product backlogs for 10 years.
- Used Figma, Sketch, Miro for 4 years.
- Directed cross-functional teams, coordinating with developers, designers, and business units, driving a 40% reduction in time-to-market for critical features.
- Spearheaded product release demos, UAT, and go-to-market (GTM) strategies, leading to a 15% increase in user adoption within the first quarter of launch.
- Optimized member experience on Anthem's digital health platform, resulting in a 20% increase in active user engagement and a 10% boost in member retention.
Nikunjkumar Parmar
Last position:
Senior Java Backend Developer at Questax Professionals GmbH
- Provide the Price Listing Service Team Price for all cars and vans in different markets
- Adjust market-specific requirements like taxes, government subsidies, campaigns
- Import, synchronize and store new prices for all new and existing cars in Redis datastore
- Support our product and handle on-call duties
- Daily operations, developing new features, bug fixing
- Pair programming, code reviews, mob programming
- Develop POCs for new ideas
- Maintain and extend the backend
- DevOps tasks
- Perform Kubernetes updates
- Adjust and further develop Kubernetes resources
- Develop and customize Helm charts
- Adjust and update ArgoCD
- Maintain, adjust and further develop CI/CD pipelines
Olaf Titel
Last position:
CTO, Partner, Agile Coach, Product Owner at fluidx digital GmbH
- Development and launch of a browser-based platform for camera streaming, augmented reality (AR), and visual computing
- Device-independent camera streaming for smartphones, tablets, desktop PCs, as well as VR and AR headsets
- Ensuring GDPR-compliant hosting in Open Telekom Cloud and other sovereign cloud providers
- Intuitive visual and collaborative features to boost efficiency and seamlessly integrate into existing enterprise software
Christopher Mäuer
Last position:
Mobile & Full-Stack Engineer at Propstack GmbH
- Refactored the mobile app by reimplementing stores, models, API client, screens and components using Typescript
- Added performant on-device storage for stores as preparation for offline mode
- Integrated RNUILib to achieve a minimal and modern UI design quickly
- Implemented native packages to provide additional features such as displaying of caller IDs
- Planned feature development and UX improvements following initial refactoring and redesign
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Statistics of experts using Elasticsearch
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
2.3 years (Germany: 2 years)
Positions per freelancer
11 (Germany: 13)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Retail
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
96% (Germany: 93%)
Master's degree or higher
44% (Germany: 48%)
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
97% (Germany: 99%)
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Berlin using Elasticsearch
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
Search at scale
Elasticsearch is built for fast search over large amounts of text and structured data. Teams use it for product search, site search, log analysis, observability, and analytics where speed and flexible querying matter.
Common uses
- Product and catalog search
- Log and event analysis
- Dashboards and reporting
- Alerting and operational search
- Geo and filtering queries
Stack and tooling
Strong specialists work with the Elastic Stack, including Kibana, Logstash, Beats, and sometimes APM. They know mappings, analyzers, shards, indices, queries, aggregations, and how to keep clusters stable under real traffic.
When companies bring help
Freelance expertise is often needed for migrations, relevance tuning, broken queries, slow searches, and cluster design. Berlin teams also bring in specialists when search must support English and German content, hybrid remote work, or tight delivery windows.
What good work looks like
A good professional does more than write queries. They think about indexing strategy, data shape, search quality, performance, and how the system fails when traffic grows or data changes.
Fit for the project
Companies usually need Elasticsearch specialists for new search features, OpenSearch or ELK transitions, index redesign, and production troubleshooting. The best experts document decisions clearly and can work with backend, data, and platform teams without slowing delivery.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Elasticsearch.
Elasticsearch is used when teams need fast search, filters, and aggregations over large data sets. It is common for product search, log analysis, observability, and internal knowledge search. Many teams also use it for dashboards and alerting when they need quick access to changing data.
Elasticsearch is often compared with OpenSearch and Apache Solr because they solve similar search problems. The right choice depends on your stack, licensing preference, and the kind of relevance tuning you need. A strong specialist can explain the trade-offs in query behavior, tooling, and operational effort.
A good Elasticsearch freelancer usually knows JSON APIs, query design, data modeling, and index mappings. Useful adjacent skills include Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Linux, and basic distributed systems knowledge. For many projects, experience with application backends and logs or event pipelines matters as much as search syntax.
Elasticsearch work ranges from simple search integration to complex cluster design and relevance tuning. Small features may only need a specialist who can shape documents and write queries cleanly, while production search or observability work needs deeper operational experience. If the system is already in use and slowing down, bring in someone who has solved live incidents before.
Yes, Elasticsearch work is often done remotely because most tasks are design, query, and configuration heavy. Berlin teams may still want overlap for workshops, incident response, or hands-on migration work. Clear access to logs, metrics, and test data matters more than being in the same office.
Look for a Elasticsearch professional who asks about data shape, query intent, and failure modes before talking about tuning. Good signs are clean mappings, sensible analyzers, clear shard decisions, and practical advice on relevance and performance. Strong specialists also explain trade-offs in plain language and leave behind maintainable setup notes.
Elasticsearch is the search engine, while Elastic Stack and ELK Stack refer to the broader set of tools around it. People often use those names when the project includes Kibana, Logstash, and Beats as well as indexing and search. If your brief says ELK, make sure the specialist understands the full pipeline, not only the search layer.
A Elasticsearch freelancer can own search endpoints, index design, migration plans, query refactoring, and Kibana dashboards. They may also handle alerting rules, log ingestion, and performance fixes for slow searches or heavy clusters. The best deliverables are specific, tested, and easy for your team to maintain after handover.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Elasticsearch 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 Berlin, Germany who have used Elasticsearch in their recent projects, 96% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 44% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Elasticsearch in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Elasticsearch in their recent projects are German (97%), English (97%), and French (19%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Elasticsearch in their recent projects are Information Technology (97%), Media and Entertainment (47%), and Retail (44%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Elasticsearch in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (97%), and Operations (50%).
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