Fedora Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Fedora
Karlheinz Götz
Last position:
Consultant / Test Analyst / Supporter at Insurance office, Spaichingen
Project: Process optimization & IT support in an insurance broker office.
Project activities:
- Analysis of processes and definition of requirements
- Consulting for the implementation of a cloud solution (soho)
- Installation and verification of new infrastructure HW
- Cloud installation & configuration
- Definition and creation of use cases
- Performing user acceptance tests (UAT)
- User training / training
- IT support (cloud, PC, server, printer, network)
Label: Insurance, infrastructure, configuration, training, support
Timo Heck
Last position:
Software Developer at Continentale Krankenversicherung AG
- Implementation of a REST-based web service for querying contract, claims, customer, and sales data as part of the Dialogmanager project.
- Data release is done in compliance with CoC requirements and individual user permissions from IAM (Identity and Access Management).
- Implementation using JBoss EAP 8.1 (JakartaEE 10) and Java 21 as well as JAX-RS, CDI, Microprofile-Config, Microprofile-OpenAPI.
Andreas Eckert
Last position:
IT-Compliance & Security at Bellaseno GmbH
Conducting a gap analysis to assess existing security measures → identifying critical vulnerabilities
Developing a catalog of measures considering risk and cost-effectiveness
Implementing an IT maturity model according to BSI guidelines
Advising management on compliance, governance, and security strategy
Establishing internal processes for a sustainable security organization
Bent-Ove Gütz
Last position:
KMS system integrator at Soorce Professionals GmbH
- installation and maintenance of communication systems on marine vessels
- advanced security checks
- building cluster environments using VMware ESX servers, DataCore, and Dell hardware
André Görst
Last position:
IT Consulting Project Management / Engineering Subproject Management at T-Systems (on assignment for government agencies)
- Projects for federal networks (NdB).
- CR management, EoL change requests, design and documentation according to ITSCM.
- Data center planning.
- Project management and engineering subproject management.
- Software development for virtual server environments according to BSI.
Pascal Farys
Last position:
Senior Network Security Consultant at IT-Systemhaus
- Provided expert level consulting for lifecycle, upgrades and refresh activities
- Used Remedy for effort recording and billing to customers
- Used ServiceNow for service management and workflow
- Used Jira for project management with agile/Scrum methods
- Used Confluence for documentation
- Worked with customer-specific software tools
- Worked with customer-provided and secured hardware suitable for IT security operations infrastructure setup for customers
- Built firewall rule sets and handed over to service owner and delivery teams
- Environment: Cisco ASA, Cisco Firepower, CSM, Cisco AnyConnect, Cisco ISE, Check Point VSX and gateways
Jochen Hinrichsen
Last position:
DevSecOps Expert at DB InfraGO
- Central build and delivery for 20+ applications, 100+ pipelines/day, 700+ GitLab projects
- Build pipelines for Go, Java and JavaScript
- Provisioning of 100+ components
- Quality assurance via GitLab Code Quality and SonarQube
- Checks for dependencies, licensing and vulnerabilities
- Release creation via Jira and ServiceNow
- SBOM, Supply Chain Security, distroless images
- PoC GitLab Runner: Nomad vs. Kubernetes
- Technologies: Artifactory, buildah, GitLab Premium, Go, Gradle, Jenkins, Mend, Podman
Alexander Bojko
Last position:
IT Specialist SAN at Self-Employed
Administration of Brocade SAN
Optimization of processes in the Pure Storage environment
Automation in the storage environment
Administration of block, file and S3 storage (NetApp / Pure Flash Blade)
Software/Tools: BNA, SANnav, bash, python, Remedy ARS
Martin Frlička
Last position:
IT Security Consultant at Freelance
Alexander Willer
Last position:
Freelance Head of Development / Strategy Consultant at LabMaker GmbH
- Consulting on a wide range of open science hardware projects in the fields of electronics, mechatronics, and optoelectronics
- Comprehensive system analysis and DFM optimization of a novel open hardware miniaturized two-photon microscope
- Exchange with scientists from renowned academic institutions to align the customer’s work in the best possible way
- Production coordination with local and international partners for PCB assembly, CNC machining, and optics
- Process analysis for product design, production planning/execution, product lifecycle, and product data management
- Coaching employees from all departments on the requirements that complex technical products place on business processes
- Development of a comprehensive PLM & PDM concept tailored to the needs of development and manufacturing
- Initiating intensive and direct cross-departmental exchange to identify improvement potential
- Planning shopfloor layout improvements with the production team and supporting the implementation process
- Quick onboarding of two new English-speaking colleagues in technical product management and development
- Ad-hoc and in-depth training of employees in the use of software tools such as KiCad or Autodesk Inventor
- Consulting on long-term development into a scalable, even stronger partner for the open science hardware community
Markus Kraft
Last position:
Administration / Support at Hessische Zentrale für Datenverarbeitung
- Operation and development support (Linux, Tomcat)
- Web release builds with Jenkins and deployment
- Monitoring and operation planning
- Support for Online Access Act (OZG)
- Data queries and corrections in Oracle SQL via CloudBeaver and Rundeck
- Keycloak administration
- Regression testing and documentation in Jira
- Development of complex address database with MS Access/VBA
- Creation of documentation and guides in XWiki
Taher Solimany
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at Confidential
- Collaborating with developers, security, and operations teams to align requirements
- Supporting product owners and development teams in deploying logging and monitoring solutions based on the Elastic Stack
- Developing and standardizing log schemas as well as defining practical standards for observability
- Designing and further developing logging architectures for complex, distributed multi-tenant environments
- Connecting application and infrastructure logs as well as security tools and metrics
- Optimizing data flows and modeling for analysis and reporting purposes
- Building automated infrastructures using Terraform/Terragrunt and Ansible
- Maintaining and evolving CI/CD pipelines in GitLab as well as automated development environments in Hetzner Robot
- Operating and automating Proxmox clusters including Ceph storage
- Setting up and running Kubernetes (k3s) clusters on Fedora CoreOS including core services like Vault, OpenLDAP, and HAProxy
- Implementing security-critical infrastructures according to BSI basic protection and securing existing systems
- Supporting the operation of solutions in cloud environments (e.g., AWS)
- Working in agile teams following Scrum and Kanban
- Technologies/Tools: Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats/Elastic Agent, Kibana), Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, Proxmox, Proxmox Ceph, Kubernetes (k3s), OpenShift, Helm, Kustomize, Vault, OpenLDAP, HAProxy, Hetzner Robot systems, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Syslog Linux/Windows, Docker, NGINX, Apache Security & Compliance (BSI basic protection, SIEM/SOC)
Artur Rekawek
Last position:
Senior DevOps Engineer at Infineon Technologies AG
- Java and Groovy development
- Administration of Docker Compose (incl. installation, configuration and maintenance)
- Linux systems like Debian
- Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Sonarqube, SVN
- Administration of Atlassian products like Bitbucket, Jira, Crucible, Fisheye
- Monitoring tools like Elasticsearch, Prometheus
- Practical experience with DevOps tools like Puppet, Maven
- Scripting in Python, Perl, Shell and Powershell
- Helm chart script development
- End to end new framework development in Python, Groovy including Jenkins and Gitlab CI/CD pipelines
- Gitlab runner CI/CD development
- Openshift Kubernetes administration and development
Martin Wilhelmi
Last position:
Security Auditor at MissionMe
- Environment: AWS, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React Native
- Penetration test for Backend, Android-App and iOS-App
Duc Tu Le Anh
Last position:
Freelance Software Developer at Source Group International - on behalf of Christoph Kroschke Holding GmbH & Co. KG
- Technologies used: Ubuntu Linux, IntelliJ, Gitlab CI/CD, Java 17, Kotlin, TypeScript, Angular, Maven, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Hibernate, JUnit, Mockito, Docker, AWS, Keycloak, Kafka
- Designed and developed a new in-house project in a microservice landscape
- Backend with Java/Spring Boot and frontend with TypeScript/Angular
- Deployed the microservices on AWS Fargate
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Statistics of experts using Fedora
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Transportation
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Legal
Bachelor's degree or higher
67%
Master's degree or higher
33%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
88%
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 Germany 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 Germany using Fedora
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
Fedora basics
Fedora is a Linux distribution used for modern workstations, servers, and development environments. It is known for adopting new Linux features early while staying close to the wider RPM and Red Hat ecosystem. Companies use it when they want a current, clean base for technical work.
Common work
- Desktop and laptop setup for technical teams
- Server builds for internal services and lab systems
- Container and Podman-based environments
- Build and test machines for software delivery
- Upgrades, hardening, and package management
Ecosystem skills
Strong Fedora professionals know DNF, RPM, SELinux, systemd, NetworkManager, and virtualization tools such as KVM and libvirt. They also understand Wayland, GNOME, and the Fedora release cycle. For Red Hat aligned projects, this background matters because Fedora often shapes the tools and workflows used later in enterprise Linux.
When to bring help
Bring in freelance expertise when a rollout must be clean, fast, and repeatable. This is common when a team needs migration support, desktop standardization, CI runners, image building, or support for development stacks that depend on Fedora packages. In Germany, companies often ask for remote specialists who can work with English documentation and coordinate with local teams.
What good work looks like
Good Fedora experts make systems easy to maintain. They document package choices, manage repositories carefully, and keep security settings understandable for the next person. They also know when to use Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, or a tailored minimal install instead of forcing one setup everywhere.
Projects and handover
A solid engagement usually ends with a system that is ready to run and easy to hand over. That means clear install steps, update policy, service notes, and advice on future upgrades or migration to a related Red Hat platform. The best specialists leave teams with fewer surprises, not more.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Fedora.
Fedora is used for workstations, servers, build machines, and container-friendly environments. Companies often choose it when they want current Linux tooling, clean package management, and a base that stays close to the Red Hat ecosystem.
Fedora usually moves faster on new Linux features, packages, and desktop changes. Ubuntu and Debian are often chosen for longer-lived stability profiles, while Fedora is a strong fit when a team wants newer system components and close alignment with Red Hat workflows.
Fedora is the common name, and Fedora Linux is also widely used. Some people still connect it with Red Hat because of its upstream role, but the project itself is Fedora and it sits at the start of the Red Hat ecosystem.
A strong Fedora specialist should know DNF, RPM, SELinux, systemd, and network setup. Skills with Podman, KVM, libvirt, and shell scripting are also useful when the work includes servers, images, or automation.
A Fedora project usually needs freelance help during setup, migration, upgrade planning, hardening, or troubleshooting. It is also useful when a team needs support for developer workstations, CI runners, or a repeatable baseline for labs and internal services.
Most Fedora tasks can be done remotely because they rely on SSH, package work, and configuration review. On-site help can still be useful for hands-on device setup, office rollouts, or teams that want in-person handover in Germany.
A good Fedora expert explains choices clearly, uses the right tools for the job, and leaves documentation that another specialist can follow. Look for clean upgrade paths, sensible security settings, and a setup that is easy to maintain after handover.
A Fedora freelancer often delivers system installs, package and repository setup, service configuration, desktop baselines, and upgrade support. For larger work, they may also prepare container images, automate repeatable builds, or document a migration path to related Linux systems.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Fedora in their recent projects is 93 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 744 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Fedora in their recent projects, 67% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 33% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Fedora in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Fedora in their recent projects are German (100%), English (88%), and Spanish (35%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Fedora in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (59%), and Transportation (47%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Fedora in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (88%), and Operations (82%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Fedora
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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