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Imran Ali

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Software Engineer II

Berlin
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.
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Daniel Suszczynski

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Engineering Leader & AI-Assisted Developer

Berlin
Daniel Suszczynski

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Engineering Leader & AI-Assisted Developer at Independent · Building with AI

  • Building a full-stack e-commerce product using AI-assisted development, deliberately returning to hands-on engineering to validate how AI changes software development workflows and team dynamics.
  • Exploring VP Technology, Head of Engineering, and Director of Engineering opportunities where hands-on AI experience meets organisational scaling expertise.
  • Open to advisory conversations on AI-augmented engineering teams, technology strategy, platform architecture, and organizational design.
  • No registered business. No commercial activity.
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Qaiser Abbasi

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Freelance Lead DevOps Engineer

Berlin
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

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Clemens Berlin

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Director of Engineering

Berlin
Clemens Berlin

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Director of Engineering at SIDES GmbH

  • Leading engineering organization of 45 engineers across 8 teams while serving dual role as Head of Backend
  • Addressed critical organizational challenges including siloed departments, lack of engineering processes, and absence of technical strategy
  • Executed comprehensive engineering leadership in people management, organizational design, and strategic planning
  • Drove platform modernization including migration to a new Python backend, implementation of React micro-frontends, and transition to event-driven architecture
  • Established engineering excellence framework through Architecture Decision Records, RFC processes, and comprehensive technology roadmapping
  • Transformed engineering into integrated business partner by building collaboration channels with Product Management and Customer Operations teams
  • Reduced escaped bugs by 50% and increased test coverage in legacy systems
  • Achieved 100% Q2 roadmap delivery through realistic planning and improved estimation accuracy
  • Introduced AI engineering strategy, establishing policies, providing tools, and training team on prompt engineering and agentic workflows
  • Saved €10k monthly through infrastructure optimization including AWS IoT to RabbitMQ migration and decommissioning legacy systems
  • Improved team engagement from 60% to 100% survey participation and enhanced eNPS scores among team leaders
  • Built high-performance team through strategic hiring of Python, Go, and frontend engineers and improved onboarding
  • Implementing transition to self-organized cross-functional teams
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Fady Kuzman

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Senior Software Developer / Tech Lead

Berlin
Fady Kuzman

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Senior Software Developer / Tech Lead at Specific Objects Technologies GmbH

  • Project 1: Multi-Tenant SaaS Platform: Data Integration & Pricing Management
  • Objective: New development of ELT pipeline (replacement for Java 6 legacy), integration of heterogeneous source systems (CSV, Excel, Email, external DBs), event-sourcing for complete auditability, multi-tenant architecture for tenant-capable data processing
  • Challenge: Processing millions of records daily, audit compliance, data isolation between different tenants
  • Solution: Stakeholder workshops for requirements analysis, event-driven architecture with Axon Framework and Apache Kafka, AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS, API Gateway) for cloud integration, PostgreSQL with tenant-specific schemas for multi-tenant data isolation, REST API design with Spring Boot for external system integrations, comprehensive testing strategy (JUnit, Spring Test, Postman, PACT, ArchUnit)
  • Results: ELT performance improved from 30+ min to 1-5 min; 2-3 hours daily saved through workflow automation; 10-20 hours/week saved through event-sourcing auditability; 100% audit compliance; secure multi-tenant data isolation for 10+ tenants
  • Project 2: Multi-tenant CRM System Modernization
  • Objective: Migration of CRM system (20+ years PHP/MySQL) to Java microservices, Domain-Driven Design implementation, establishment of Test-Driven Development, multi-tenant-capable SaaS architecture for multiple customer tenants
  • Challenge: Remodeling complex business logic, no existing test culture, scalable tenant management with data isolation
  • Solution: Comprehensive testing strategy (JUnit, Spring Test, Postman, PACT, ArchUnit), multi-tenant architecture with tenant-specific databases, REST API design with Spring Boot for cross-tenant integration, Kubernetes and Docker for container orchestration
  • Results: 2× performance improvement; deployment time reduced from 40+ min to 5-7 min; migration without production outages; scalable multi-tenant solution for 15+ customer tenants
  • Technologies: Java, Spring Boot 3.x, Angular, Apache Kafka, AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS, API Gateway), PostgreSQL, Axon Framework, Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI, REST API
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Christopher Mäuer

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Mobile & Full-Stack Engineer

Berlin
Christopher Mäuer

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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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Sandeep Girase

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Software Engineer

Berlin
Sandeep Girase

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Software Engineer at ACL Digital

  • Developed high-performance APIs for SDK backend on JavaEE Web, iOS, and Android, improving application performance and scalability by 30%.
  • Led system design, tech stack planning, and development, ensuring 98% uptime with strong code quality and automated tests.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing release cycle time by 40%.
  • Deployed cloud-native applications on AWS EC2 instances, ensuring 99% uptime and optimized performance.
  • Delivered clean code with full unit, component, and integration test coverage, reducing defects by 25%.
  • Collaborated across engineering, QA, and product teams to deliver secure, reliable solutions.
  • Mentored team members, increased development efficiency by 20%, automated routine tasks, and contributed to hiring, growing team capacity by 15%.
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Khaled Mohamed

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Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

Berlin
Khaled Mohamed

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Senior/Staff Backend Engineer at Heycar (Mobility Trader GmbH)

  • Heycar is a leading automotive platform redefining the used car market through intelligent data pipelines, multi-tenant services, and dealer-focused tooling. I led initiatives across backend architecture, data ingestion, and identity management to enhance scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.
  • Ingestion Platform: Designed a unified ingestion platform with YAML-based configuration, enabling new dealer data pipelines to be onboarded without code changes, cutting setup time from ~2 months to 2-3 days and improving scalability by 40%.
  • Keycloak Leadership: Acted as the company's Keycloak expert, scaling it for multi-tenant identity management and extending functionality with custom plugins and delegated admin APIs.
  • Back-Office Tooling: Developed a back-office application integrated with Salesforce, enabling dealers to manage inventory, convert leads, and handle support requests in real time.
  • Multi-Tenant Migration: Collaborated across backend teams to migrate Heycar's core services into a unified multi-tenant cluster, ensuring high availability.
  • Frontend CI Optimization: Optimized monorepo delivery by implementing CircleCI dynamic config with NX, deploying only affected UI projects and drastically cutting build times.
  • Observability & Mentorship: Enhanced monitoring and release reliability while mentoring backend engineers and improving code review standards.
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Tejasvi Yogeshappa

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Backend Engineer

Berlin
Tejasvi Yogeshappa

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Backend Engineer at N26

  • Developed and maintained Kotlin-based microservices with Kafka event streaming, applying Hexagonal Architecture and Domain-Driven Design in production environments.
  • Contributed to the Bring-Your-Salary feature, enabling seamless onboarding of new salary accounts and improving customer experience.
  • Built and integrated services for the FPAD VOP platform, supporting secure and scalable partner integrations.
  • Investigated and resolved production incidents through root cause analysis (RCA), implementing fixes that improved service stability and reliability.
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Aadityavelava V A

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Senior Product Manager – Checkout & Cloud Identity

Berlin
Aadityavelava V A

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Senior Product Manager – Checkout & Cloud Identity at SCAYLE (ABOUT YOU Group)

  • Defined the headless Checkout product strategy (APIs, contracts, extensibility) and roadmap; partnered with Engineering/SecOps to refactor and harden the platform for externalization.
  • Aligned MDs/C-level on a multi-quarter roadmap, business cases, and success metrics (conversion, time-to-launch for partners, incident rate, SLA adherence).
  • Chaired cross-functional planning (multiple PMs and squads); ran RICE prioritization and capacity planning for the unit; sequenced dependencies across Frontend, Payments, Platform, and Security.
  • Rolled out a multi-tenant OIDC Identity Provider (SSO, RBAC, tenant isolation, data reuse) and integrated it with Checkout and partner apps; reduced login friction and support escalations.
  • Established a governed Rules Engine (eligibility, promotions, shipping and payment rules, compliance guards) with versioning, safe rollouts, and clear ownership across teams.
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Kalyani Kumar

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Assistant Vice President

Berlin
Kalyani Kumar

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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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Nicholus Muwonge

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Founding Software Engineer

Berlin
Nicholus Muwonge

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Founding Software Engineer at Trakrf

  • Built out backend services in Golang, TimeScaleDB, and GCP, handling 10K+ reads concurrently.
  • Migrated from RedPanda to a local service written in Golang, reducing latency and business cost.
  • Added A/B testing using Open Replay to analyze customer behavior along with performance.
  • Collaborated with marketing and firmware teams to successfully launch the MVP on time to pitch to potential customers.
  • Streamlined testing and deployments by creating GitHub Actions to check for failing tests and lint errors, and deploying both staging and production releases efficiently.
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Nando Theessen

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Senior DevOps Engineer

Berlin
Nando Theessen

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Senior DevOps Engineer at T-Systems

  • Designed, implemented & automated cloud infrastructure contributing to 3 projects in a critical role.
  • Lead the teams' effort to implement Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI / CD.
  • Enabled customers to follow the GitOps approach and deploy their services via ArgoCD.
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Johannes Engl

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Senior Software Engineer

Berlin
Johannes Engl

Last position:

Senior Software Engineer at Deliveroo

  • Geo-sharded different Ruby services to improve scalability.
  • Planned and executed a project to increase peak-time order processing capacity by launching a second Amazon Aurora database cluster.
  • Offloaded high-volume tables with billions of rows to the new cluster.
  • Reduced absolute CPU usage during peak hours on average by 15.79%.
  • Utilized technologies and skills including Ruby on Rails, AWS, Kafka, microservice architectures, big data, Terraform, Datadog and Protocol Buffers.

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Statistics of experts using Event-Driven Architecture

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

13 years (Germany: 16 years)

Position duration

2.4 years (Germany: 2.7 years)

Positions per freelancer

6 (Germany: 11)

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Legal

Bachelor's degree or higher

86% (Germany: 88%)

Master's degree or higher

50%

Certifications per freelancer

1 (Germany: 2)

Most common languages

English, German, Arabic

Speak two or more languages

94% (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 Event-Driven Architecture

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

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Daily rate avg. 677 €
Germany avg. 797 €

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 720 €
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the technology

Event-first systems

Event-Driven Architecture, often called EDA, organizes software around events instead of direct calls. Teams use it to react to business changes, connect services, and keep systems responsive under variable load. It fits products that need loose coupling and clear audit trails.

Common building blocks

  • Kafka topics, RabbitMQ queues, or cloud event buses
  • Producers, consumers, and event handlers
  • Schemas, contracts, and versioning rules
  • Stream processing, retries, and dead-letter handling
  • Monitoring for lag, failures, and duplicates

What it helps build

EDA shows up in order updates, payment flows, notification systems, inventory sync, and data pipelines. It is also common in microservices landscapes where one action must trigger several independent reactions. Strong work keeps each event small, clear, and durable.

Why experts matter

Freelance specialists are useful when teams need to untangle synchronous systems, introduce Kafka, or stabilize an event stream that already exists. They are also brought in for event modeling, message design, and recovery strategies after incidents. In Berlin, this often supports product teams that work across distributed services and mixed in-office or remote setups.

Skills that stand out

A strong professional understands domain boundaries, idempotency, ordering, schema evolution, and failure handling. They can choose between pub/sub, queues, and streams without forcing one pattern everywhere. They also write practical documentation so other experts can operate the system safely.

Good fit signals

  • Services are tightly coupled and hard to change
  • Teams need faster reactions to business events
  • Data must move across systems without heavy polling
  • Operations need clear tracing of event paths
  • Existing integrations fail under load or retries
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Frequently asked questions

Key details about Event-Driven Architecture, drawn from the questions we get asked most.

Event-Driven Architecture is used to let systems react to business changes as they happen. It is common for order processing, payment updates, notifications, inventory changes, and data synchronization between services. The main benefit is that each part can act independently without tight request chains.

A Event-Driven Architecture approach reduces coupling because services publish events instead of calling each other directly. REST is still useful for queries and simple command flows, but it can become brittle when many services depend on each other in real time. EDA is usually better when the work should fan out to several consumers.

Event-Driven Architecture often sits on top of Kafka, RabbitMQ, or a cloud event bus. Teams also use schema registries, stream processors, observability tools, and dead-letter queues to keep event flows reliable. The exact stack depends on whether the system is built around messaging or event streams.

A strong Event-Driven Architecture specialist should know distributed systems, domain modeling, and message durability. Good skills also include schema versioning, idempotency, tracing, and replay strategies. In many projects, some understanding of Kubernetes or cloud infrastructure is helpful as well.

You do not need a full rewrite before engaging a Event-Driven Architecture specialist. Freelancers are often most valuable when a team is planning the first event flow, fixing duplicated messages, or separating a monolith into services. The earlier the design decisions happen, the easier it is to avoid event chaos later.

Yes, Event-Driven Architecture work is often well suited to remote collaboration because much of it is design, review, and testing. The important part is clear event contracts and good documentation, especially when teams are spread across time zones. In Berlin, many companies mix on-site workshops with remote delivery for the build phase.

Look for clear event models, strong failure handling, and clean consumer logic in past work. A good Event-Driven Architecture professional can explain why they chose a queue, a stream, or pub/sub, and how they handled retries, ordering, and duplicates. They should also be able to describe what was measured after launch, not just what was built.

No, Event-Driven Architecture does not automatically mean Kafka. Kafka is a strong fit for event streams and replayable data flows, while RabbitMQ or a managed event bus can be better for simpler routing and task distribution. The right choice depends on throughput, retention, consumer patterns, and operational comfort.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Event-Driven Architecture in their recent projects is 85 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 677 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Event-Driven Architecture in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 50% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Event-Driven Architecture in their recent projects have 13 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Event-Driven Architecture in their recent projects are English (100%), German (88%), and Arabic (13%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Event-Driven Architecture in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (50%), and Automotive (31%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Event-Driven Architecture in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Business Intelligence (50%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Event-Driven Architecture

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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