Encryption Experts in Berlin
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Andreas Rühl
Last position:
Freelance Consultant for Information Security at A-R-C Andreas Rühl Consulting
Development and implementation of tailored information security strategies
Introduction and further development of ISMS according to ISO 27001, BSI baseline protection, and other standards
Risk management and creation of security concepts
Consulting for KRITIS, PCI DSS, TISAX, and VdS 3473/10000
Building and improving security organizations
Creation and implementation of guidelines, policies, work instructions, and process descriptions
Audit support and certification preparation
Conducting trainings, workshops, and awareness campaigns
Selection and consulting on the introduction of IT security solutions such as SIEM, DLP, IDS/IPS, firewalls, and encryption technologies
Conducting penetration tests and vulnerability analyses
Consulting on the selection, integration, and management of security architectures in complex IT environments
Consulting on ITSM and managed security services and SOC
Leading and managing complex projects to improve information security
Process analysis, optimization, and management according to ITIL, ISO 27001, and cybernetics
Introduction and quality assurance of management, documentation, and knowledge management systems
Support in complying with regulatory information security requirements (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, GMP, KRITIS)
Development and implementation of risk analysis procedures
Organizing initial response, forensic investigations, and organizational measures in the event of security incidents
Designing and running targeted workshops on topics such as ISMS, IT risks, and current threat scenarios
Awareness campaigns to promote security culture in companies
Special trainings on ISO 27001, BSI baseline protection, KRITIS, and other relevant standards
Simulations and exercises to prepare for information security incidents
Interim management for leading information security projects or IT security organizations
Taking on the role of an external CISO (Chief Information Security Officer)
Support in developing and implementing IT security and corporate strategies
Coaching and mentoring of managers in the field of information security
Building and leading security departments as well as recruiting and qualifying employees
Temporary assumption of management responsibility in critical situations
Daniel Martinez Maqueda
Last position:
Founding Database Engineer at tonbo.io
Working on the next iteration of tonbo to make it the most flexible in-process analytical database in the market that scales and is operated with strong availability
Introduced object scope cache to the remote storage layer to avoid I/O churn
Working on refactoring WAL to support remote storage
Taking care of the health of the systems as well as designing the operational story and bringing them to production
Technologies: LSM, WAL, Arrow, Parquet, Rust
Alois Rietzler
Last position:
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
Unnikuttan Velamkudy Vijayan
Last position:
Managing Director (Co-Founder) at AathmaSignals
- Spearheading investor outreach and partnership development as founding MD, building the business case and technical narrative needed to attract initial funding and strategic collaborators in the digital health space
- Designing multi-agent AI systems for autonomous biosignal analysis, orchestrating LLM-based reasoning pipelines with domain-specific medical context to enable intelligent, clinical decision support
Ursula Raab
Last position:
Sabbatical with Training at Own Sabbatical
Bidya Bibhu
Last position:
Global Lead (Product) – Payments Platform (Risk & Data Products) at Chargebee
- Own strategy and roadmap for the payment orchestration and risk intelligence products serving enterprise subscription customers.
- Conduct deep workflow discovery and user interviews to redesign onboarding experience, resulting in 5× funnel throughput and 70% reduction in manual steps.
- Define PRDs for scalable data pipelines, fraud signals, and automation logic, improving insight accuracy and speed of decision-making by 30%.
- Partner with engineering, data, design, and security to ship 15+ enterprise features with 100% successful release quality.
- Introduce risk analytics dashboards and performance KPIs, reducing investigation time by 40% and improving visibility across teams.
- Lead prioritization of new capabilities, tech debt, and security initiatives (PCI DSS, access controls, auditability).
- Lead development of ML-based fraud detection models (regression, decision trees) to identify high-risk transactions, reducing chargebacks by 20%.
- Design end-to-end analytics dashboards (Tableau, Redshift) to visualise global risk exposure, cutting onboarding SLA from 2.4 days to 3 minutes.
- Partner with engineering and data teams to deploy scalable payment risk frameworks, enhancing compliance visibility and decision speed.
- Mentor analysts and data scientists through agile sprint cycles, embedding a data-driven culture across risk operations.
Katarzyna Rodak
Last position:
Product Designer at IBM Denmark
- end-to-end design: managing the full design process from user research and ideation to wireframes, prototypes, and final UI designs
- secure product UX: ensuring usability and accessibility for complex systems like encryption management and IoT infrastructure
- cross-functional collaboration: working closely with developers, security engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to align technical constraints with user needs
- design thinking workshops: participating in and facilitating workshops to define user problems and ideate potential solutions
- user research & client interviews: gathering insights through direct user and client interactions to inform product features and design direction
- feature design & presentations: designing detailed features and presenting them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders for feedback and iteration
- implementation support: supporting developers throughout implementation to ensure design quality and consistency
- design systems: contributing reusable components and UX patterns to internal design systems for consistency and scalability
- usability focus: refining user flows and interfaces based on usability testing and feedback to reduce friction and increase efficiency
- technical fluency: serving as a bridge between design and development, translating complex technical requirements into intuitive user experiences
Taha Holawala
Last position:
Senior Salesforce Developer at Eurofiber
- Implemented Service Tickets functionality for the HOLAWAL Partner Portal, taking full ownership of the epic from architectural design to delivery
- Conducted stakeholder meetings, defined solution approach, and developed a reusable dynamic LWC component that enables configurable flow creation through JavaScript file settings
- Implemented the IP-VPN workflow as a new business product and managed its end-to-end delivery using Salesforce Communication Cloud
- Designed and developed a customer-facing quoting mechanism enabling external customers to view and accept quotes seamlessly
- Localized and enhanced the customer portal by implementing Dutch translations, improving usability and engagement for a major Dutch client
- Designed a quote request submission flow for the customer portal using Balsamiq wireframing tool, ensuring all required details were captured upfront
- Developed an order form flow using Lightning Web Components to capture products, linked services, and service locations
- Configured Salesforce Industries CPQ by modifying existing products, adding new attributes, and implementing validations to enhance product customization and accuracy
- Implemented Apex mocking using the FFLIB library to build efficient, maintainable, and high-coverage test classes
Marcus Kühl
Last position:
Senior Software Developer (APEX) at Various
- Further development and tuning of a medium-sized application for managing events and participants
- Identification of bottlenecks
- Adding missing foreign keys and indexes
- Reprogramming views and SQL queries in APEX
- Report development with Jasper Reports
- Mentoring other APEX developers
Muhammad Intizar
Last position:
Group Product Manager at Delivery Hero SE
- Strategic portfolio management: Own the product vision and multi-year strategic roadmap for the global InventoryAutomation portfolio. Managed the integration of AI-powered efficiency tools across multiple operating entities, ensuring alignment with complex regulatory and governance standards.
- AI/ML impact at scale: Spearheaded mission-critical AI initiatives that automated 70% of global inventory rules. Leveraged predictive modeling to reduce manual errors by 40%, resulting in multi-million euro annual operational savings.
- Operational optimization: Defined and tracked high-level success metrics (e.g., CPO). Successfully achieved a 10% reduction in Cost Per Order (CPO) through the deployment of Generative AI assistants and automated financial workflow models.
- Executive stakeholder management: Acted as the primary liaison between Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Finance. Successfully navigated high-stakes negotiations to align disparate global entities on standardized payment protocols.
- Team mentorship: Led a cross-functional squad of Data Scientists, Engineers, and Designers, fostering a culture of rapid experimentation and "Responsible AI" deployment.
Steven Mohr
Last position:
Freelance Trainer at TÃœV Rheinland Akademie
- Practical seminar "Generative AI in Software Development"
- Mobile apps and cloud computing
- Internet of Things, smart home and consumer healthcare
- Future of mobile communication
Ina Rothe
Last position:
Consultant at ALL AML GmbH
- AML consultancy services, including setting up AML risk management, developing policies, procedures and controls, designing and undertaking employee trainings
Kalyani Kumar
Last position:
Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Bank
- Technologies: Java, React, Python, Scala, Spring Boot, JPA, microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Eureka, Prometheus, Grafana, Zookeeper
- Led the design and development of enterprise wide data warehouse platform for efficient and secure data sharing using stateless, event-driven microservices architecture
- Served as component guardian and Scrum master for three microservices, ensuring seamless integration and maintaining high data integrity
- Optimized performance through Prometheus and Grafana, achieving measurable system resilience
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Statistics of experts using Encryption
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years (Germany: 20 years)
Position duration
2.3 years (Germany: 3 years)
Positions per freelancer
11 (Germany: 15)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Healthcare
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 86%)
Master's degree or higher
64% (Germany: 48%)
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
92% (Germany: 97%)
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Berlin 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 Berlin using Encryption
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
What it covers
Encryption protects data by turning readable information into ciphertext that only authorized specialists or systems can restore. It is used for stored files, databases, backups, APIs, email, and network traffic. Strong work in this area also includes choosing the right algorithm, mode, and key handling.
Where it is used
- Securing data at rest in servers, storage, and backups
- Protecting data in transit with TLS and related protocols
- Handling secrets, certificates, and rotation workflows
- Adding field-level protection for sensitive records
In Berlin, companies often need this for SaaS products, fintech systems, healthcare workflows, and internal enterprise tools. The right specialist understands where encryption belongs and where access control or tokenization is the better fit.
Skills that matter
A strong specialist knows symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hashing, digital signatures, and key lifecycle management. They should work comfortably with PKI, certificate authorities, HSMs, cloud key services, and secure coding practices. Good choices here reduce risk without breaking performance or operations.
Common deliverables
Freelance experts are often brought in to review cryptographic design, harden application settings, or fix weak implementations. They may update legacy TLS, design encryption for a new product, or help teams pass security reviews. Clean documentation is part of the work, not an afterthought.
When to bring in help
Bring in outside expertise when you inherit old systems, move workloads to the cloud, or handle regulated data. It also helps when teams must compare encryption with masking, access controls, or signing and are unsure what belongs where. Berlin teams often combine remote collaboration with on-site workshops for security reviews and stakeholder alignment.
What good looks like
Good professionals explain trade-offs in plain language and avoid unnecessary complexity. They test key rotation, recovery, interoperability, and failure modes, not just the happy path. They also keep implementations aligned with the actual product, infrastructure, and compliance needs.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about Encryption, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
Encryption is used to keep data unreadable to anyone without the right key. Companies rely on it for stored records, backups, API traffic, email, and device data. It is also part of secure authentication flows, certificate handling, and signed releases.
Encryption is reversible when the right key is available, while hashing is designed to be one-way. Tokenization replaces sensitive values with substitutes and is often used when you want to reduce exposure rather than preserve the original data format. A good specialist helps decide which method fits the data and the workflow.
Encryption on its own does not cover the full transport and trust chain. Many projects need TLS for secure communication and PKI for certificates, identity, and trust management. The right expert can connect those pieces without leaving gaps in certificate renewal or validation.
A strong Encryption specialist usually understands secure coding, key management, cloud security, and identity and access control. Experience with AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, GCP Cloud KMS, HSMs, and certificate workflows is often useful. They should also be able to explain risk to product and security teams clearly.
Encryption projects can be simple or highly sensitive, so the needed depth depends on the system. A code review for TLS settings is different from designing key rotation for a regulated platform or migrating legacy crypto. For business-critical systems, bring in someone who has solved similar problems before.
Encryption work is often done remotely because design reviews, implementation support, and code audits do not need constant presence. On-site time in Berlin can help for workshops, incident response, or sensitive security discussions with local stakeholders. Many teams use a mixed setup.
A strong Encryption freelancer can explain why a specific algorithm, mode, or key strategy was chosen. Look for clear reasoning about key storage, rotation, recovery, certificate handling, and failure scenarios. Good answers are specific to your stack, not generic security language.
A Encryption project usually needs careful reviews of code, infrastructure, and operational processes. Freelancers should expect questions about data flows, compliance needs, and how secrets are managed across environments. In Berlin teams, English is common in technical work, but documentation and meetings may also include German.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Encryption in their recent projects is 89 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 711 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Encryption in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 64% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Encryption in their recent projects have 19 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 Encryption in their recent projects are English (100%), German (85%), and Spanish (15%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Encryption in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Banking and Finance (62%), and Healthcare (46%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Encryption in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Product Development (85%), and Project Management (62%).
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