Google Cloud Platform Experts in Switzerland
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Ulysse Brice Mbami
Last position:
Agile Quality Engineer & Quality Master at Die Mobiliar
- Test strategy design
- Continuous defect tracking and documentation
- Test case creation and execution for performance and end-to-end tests as well as mass tests
- Responsibility for all test activities in the team
- Requirements and documentation analysis
- Agile testing based on stories, epics and features
- Test management and coordination
- Use of SAFe (PI planning, PI preparation, sprints, daily meetings, Kanban board, retrospective, review)
- Use of GitHub, Tortoise, Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams, Splunk, Swagger UI, Tosca, Rocket.Chat, Visual Studio Code, Oracle SQL Developer
- SAFe framework and project abroad
Hanspeter Jost
Last position:
Lead Salesforce Consultant DACH at DXC Technology
- Recording, validating, and coordinating customer requirements
- Analyzing customers' business processes, and designing and implementing solutions in Salesforce
- Designing and developing Salesforce architectures using Sales and Service Cloud
- Maintaining and expanding my skills to stay current with Salesforce's new features
- Taking an active role in the pre-sales phase and working closely with sales and pre-sales teams
- Building and strengthening the team's expertise in new areas
- Actively helping to define and align my role within DXC's best practices
- MC Growth implementation
- AI Agentforce Agents Builder
- Agent Designer with elements.cloud
- Salesforce org assessments
- Process configuration mining
- Serving as a single point of contact for global SFDC contacts
- Coordinating projects with the EMEA and global headquarters
- Preparing proposals and presales work with Salesforce Account Executives and client partners for global accounts
Ursula Maria Mayer
Last position:
Business Mentor at RoleModel Rebels
- Mentor female students and professionals in advancing their careers, particularly as aspiring tech entrepreneurs.
Michael Speller
Last position:
Freelance compliance & IT regulatory consultant at Various financial institutions and regulated companies
- Consulting financial institutions on implementing DORA and NIS2 requirements
- Gap analyses between existing governance structures and new regulatory requirements
- Creation and revision of policies, process descriptions, contract annexes, and technical-organizational measures
- Design of digital operational resilience testing programs (DORA Art. 24–25)
- Third-party risk management: building third-party registers, LEI matching, value chain analysis
- Training internal staff on DORA/NIS2 requirements
- Negotiation and renegotiation of outsourcing contracts according to DORA/NIS2 guidelines
- Use of technologies/frameworks: DORA, NIS2, EBA guidelines, BaFin requirements, NIST CSF, ISO 27001
- Engagements are subject to strict NDAs
Matthias Isler
Last position:
Fractional CTO (Principal Engineer / Technical Architect)
- Designed large-scale systems and APIs serving thousands of concurrent users.
- Refactored a 650k-LOC monolith and led full AWS migration for stable performance.
- Introduced SLO-based observability, improving reliability and recovery flow.
- Optimised cloud and databases, achieving significant cost and latency reduction.
- Delivered LLM, RAG, and document-automation pipelines adopted in production.
Georgios Sfakianakis
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at UBS Bank
- Implementations of a code refactoring framework able to refactor thousands of repositories leveraging Generative AI
- Use Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI), Java and Typescript in Azure Cloud (Data Lake, VMs, AI) and GitLab infrastructure
- Mentoring and pair programming
- Obtained Azure AI-900 and AI-102 certifications
Klaus Finneiser
Last position:
Freelancer at 3P Quality Consulting
Data integrity training (basic and advanced training content)
Root cause analysis and CAPA courses for 40+ employees
Risk-Management system design for quality oversight
SOP writing excellence, including use of AI tools (prompting)
Implementation of an audit remediation program as person in the plant (PIP)
Director of a quality assurance department (6 direct reports), budgeting
Development of use cases for ChatGPT in GxP context (6 months, part-time)
Reengineering of processes for a MA holder of generic products, valued operational improvements (Germany, Spain)
eQMS and document management system: delivery of the business case and investment recommendation
Analytical method validation, process and computer system validations, batch record review, PQR reviews
Articles in international journals and LinkedIn on modular QMS-design, risk-management in the supply chain, knowledge management, use of AI for compliance improvements
Andrew Longe
Last position:
Service Manager - Testing at Takeda Pharmaceutical International AG
- Managing the Testing services for the Global IT Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) team, which is responsible for managing and supporting the Product & Project Testing Workstreams on various Regional Projects, especially in Pharmacovigilance, Digital Supply Chain, Clinical Practice and R&D, etc.
- Managing Client relationships, escalations and continuing to grow the project services globally, while also driving the testing efforts on Takeda’s AI, DevOps, Agile, and Digital projects.
- Led the implementation of a Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with GCP, GMP, and Swiss and EU regulations, resulting in a huge improvement in audit readiness.
- Overseeing projects for systems including ERP, EDGE, SAP ECC, SAP Transportation Management, S/4 HANA migration etc.
- Led an AI/ML PoC for AI implementation.
- Led a cross-functional team to ensure compliance with MDR, FDA regulatory guidelines and achieved successful project deliveries.
- Led and managed change management and communication for TCoE, keeping the Takeda organisation informed of change communication and practices, including presentations to various stakeholders.
- Ensuring TCoE outsource vendor resources adhere to regulatory, compliance and quality system standards and practices for GxP & non-GxP System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including aSDLC and TCoE Global Standards.
- Translated the product vision, strategy and requirements into backlog items, which were prioritised based on potential business impact and customer value.
Ferran Siles Vila
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at Personal time off / Private projects
- Took on and completed private/organizational projects.
- Continued self-training, e.g., in cloud and reactive architectures.
- Focused deepening of knowledge in areas like Kafka and modern Java 17 enterprise architectures.
Karl Estermann
Last position:
incl. CI/CD, automation at AALS Software AG
- Designed and delivered a practical real-time course on Flink and Hadoop with MapReduce, HDFS, Spark, Flink, Hive, HBase, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Kafka
- Gained extensive DevOps and CI/CD experience
- Created ETL/ELT pipelines with Apache tools and Pentaho
- Led projects in municipal software, financial services, and big data with Kafka
- Developed AI/NLP models and chatbots with RASA, Chatter, and Dialogflow
- Built and managed a TypeDB knowledge database
- Worked with OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Podman
Mateusz Lipczyński
Last position:
Project Lead Developer at PwC
- Took over the analyst and leading developer role in an innovative project helping detection of financial fraud in a major financial institution in Zurich with assistance of artificial intelligence
- Analyzed and implemented new modules, improved performance and user experience, elevated technical documentation and code quality to the standard required by the end client
- Technologies: Java 17, JavaFX, Spring Boot, concurrency, UX, Gradle, Impala
Lluis Nieto Soler
Last position:
Federal Office for IT
- Developed an event tool for the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs ([link]
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Statistics of experts using Google Cloud Platform
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
2.3 years
Positions per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Energy
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
91%
Master's degree or higher
64%
Doctorate
18%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
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 Switzerland 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 Switzerland using Google Cloud Platform
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
Cloud scope
Google Cloud Platform, often called GCP or Google Cloud, is used to build and run modern cloud systems. It covers application hosting, managed databases, analytics, networking, identity, and storage. Companies bring in specialists when they need secure, scalable services that fit complex product and data needs.
Typical work
- Set up Compute Engine, Cloud Run, or GKE for services and APIs
- Build data flows with BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Dataflow
- Move workloads from another cloud or from on-premise systems
- Tidy up IAM, service accounts, network design, and logging
Tooling knowledge
Strong GCP professionals know how the pieces fit together: Terraform, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, and monitoring in Cloud Operations. They also understand how to use managed services instead of overbuilding custom infrastructure. That mix keeps delivery stable and easier to maintain.
When to hire
Companies often hire freelance Google Cloud Platform experts when a launch is blocked, an environment is messy, or a migration needs a steady hand. In Switzerland, this is common for finance, insurance, SaaS, and data-heavy teams that need clear documentation and careful collaboration. Remote work is normal, but on-site support can help during architecture reviews or cutovers.
What good looks like
A strong specialist makes decisions that are simple to operate later. They write clear IaC, choose the right managed service, and explain trade-offs around security, cost, and resilience. They also work well with product, data, and security teams, not just with the cloud console.
Common outcomes
- Production-ready landing zones and project structure
- Reliable CI/CD and release automation
- Safer access control and auditability
- Better performance for apps and analytics workloads
Frequently asked questions
Key details about Google Cloud Platform, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
Google Cloud Platform is used to host applications, store data, run analytics, and connect services across a cloud environment. Teams use it for APIs, batch jobs, event-driven systems, and managed infrastructure that they do not want to operate by hand.
GCP is often chosen when a team values strong data services, Kubernetes support, and managed application runtimes. AWS and Azure can solve the same business problems, but Google Cloud Platform is frequently a good fit when the stack centers on BigQuery, GKE, or Cloud Run.
A strong Google Cloud specialist usually knows infrastructure as code, IAM, networking, containers, and observability. Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and security review processes is especially useful on real delivery work.
Not every task needs deep architecture work, but Google Cloud Platform projects often touch security and billing as well as runtime setup. Even a small change can benefit from someone who has handled similar services before and can avoid hidden complexity.
Yes. GCP work is often remote-friendly because most delivery happens through code, configuration, and shared review. For Swiss teams, the main question is usually language, access, and how much workshop time needs to happen in person.
Ask for examples that show real Google Cloud Platform delivery, not just general cloud talk. Good signs are clear explanations of architecture choices, Terraform or other IaC usage, secure IAM design, and experience with the services your project already uses.
No. Google Cloud Platform is used for migrations, platform cleanup, scaling existing systems, and modernizing data pipelines as much as for new builds. Many companies bring in specialists to improve what already exists instead of starting from scratch.
It depends on the task, but GCP work usually benefits from people who have delivered comparable systems end to end. If the project involves networking, identity, data, or production cutover, you want someone who can handle the full chain, not only one service.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Google Cloud Platform in their recent projects is 118 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 941 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Google Cloud Platform in their recent projects, 91% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 64% hold at least a Master's degree, and 18% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Google Cloud Platform in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Google Cloud Platform in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (42%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Google Cloud Platform in their recent projects are Banking and Finance (92%), Information Technology (67%), and Energy (42%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Google Cloud Platform in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Product Development (75%), and Project Management (58%).
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