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Rüdiger Schulz
Last position:
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
Last position:
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
Maciej Rosiek
Last position:
Full Stack Developer (Freelancer) at Runbuggy
- Led development of RunBot AI assistant autonomously using LLM-powered workflow automation (React, TypeScript, Java, MongoDB, NATS)
- Architected TMS platform providing unified transportation management and real-time logistics visibility with AI processing pipelines
- Designed event-driven microservices architecture supporting marketplace
- Drove architectural decisions and technical leadership across full-stack platform development
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.
Abhiroop Basu
Last position:
Software Engineer III at Foundry Digital
- Developed and deployed microservices in Kotlin and Spring Boot, integrated AWS Secrets Manager to secure credentials and decreased network calls using Spring cache.
- Refactored Kafka consumer using Spring Kafka with semaphore-based backpressure to cap records and keep heap memory stable under spikes; switched to batch upserts to cut down on database invocations; added Testcontainers integration tests for Kafka and database to pave the way for future changes.
- Automated the financial reconciliation workflow in Spring Boot (Kotlin) using Spring Scheduler, transactional boundaries, JPA/Hibernate on MySQL, and Flyway migrations, saving the accounts team 16+ hours per week.
- Designed and dockerized payments end-to-end test framework in Robot (Python) with reusable keyword libraries and profiles; integrated with GitLab CI (JaCoCo XML and HTML reports) to accelerate releases and lift code coverage to 80%.
- Implemented end-to-end observability on Datadog by instrumenting services with Datadog APM, correlating metrics and logs, provisioning dashboards, and creating monitors with burn-rate alerts and anomalies to harden reliability and give stakeholders clear visibility.
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.
Ursula Raab
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Sabbatical with Training at Own Sabbatical
Qaiser Abbasi
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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
Igor Kazarnovskiy
Last position:
Freelance Software Developer
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
Marco Rodriguez De Paz
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Fullstack Developer at Artificial Intelligence/LLMs
- Built a portfolio website using Vue 3 implementing dynamic pages responsive UI components.
- Integrated OpenAI ChatGPT API for interactive AI content generation.
- Handled API requests and media management via Cloudflare, enabling efficient communication and asset delivery.
- Vue.js
- Vuetify
- C++, WPF
- Debian
- Matlab
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Tailwind CSS
- Cloudflare Workers
- GitHub Actions
- Node.js
Ramu Molankula
Last position:
Software Development Engineer at Olive Crypto Systems Pvt Ltd (National Payments Corporation of India)
Contributed to the development of a UPI simulation system, ensuring alignment with NPCI standards from UAT to production, and achieving a 98% success rate with improved API workflow clarity.
Built a data-driven certification process that increased scenario coverage by 40% and cut certification time to 1 week.
Executed 100+ transaction scenarios for switch testing using a real-time sample bank, achieving 85% accuracy in critical flows and supporting on-time certification for banks.
integrated Spring Boot microservices with RabbitMQ to automate certification workflows, reducing manual efforts by 40%.
Supported the rollout of a global UPI simulation tool used by 20+ international partners to explore real-time remittance APIs and process flows efficiently.
Streamlined certification workflows, reducing integration time by 50% and enabling full API understanding within a week.
Engineered a real-time international remittance simulator and testing framework facilitating API/application flow comprehension for partners like Lyra and TerraPay; cut partner integration time by 40%.
Developed RESTful APIs using Spring Boot and Kafka to simulate high-volume remittance traffic for partner certification.
Collaborated with international partners to optimize API performance, identifying and resolving latency issues, resulting in a 25% reduction in response times during partner integrations.
Mathias Vogler
Last position:
Senior Android Developer / Freelancer at Adevinta
- Further development of the classifieds app
- Android
- Kotlin
- Coroutines
- Jetpack Compose
Christian Richter
Last position:
Freelance Data Engineer at Ingenieurbüro Christian Richter – Data, Cloud & Container
- Contributed to over 20 successful projects
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
Discover over 15,000 top freelancers
Statistics of experts using Gradle
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
20 years
Position duration
2.8 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Retail
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
92%
Master's degree or higher
54%
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
82%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
About the technology
Build logic
Gradle is the build automation tool used to compile, test, package, and publish software. Strong specialists shape build scripts, keep task graphs clear, and make complex projects easier to maintain. It is common in Java and Kotlin codebases, Android work, and large multi-module systems.
What it covers
- Dependency management and version alignment
- Custom tasks, plugins, and build conventions
- Publishing artifacts to internal or public repositories
- Android builds with the Android Gradle Plugin
- CI-friendly builds for repeatable delivery
Ecosystem skills
Experienced professionals work with Gradle Kotlin DSL, Groovy DSL, the Gradle Wrapper, and plugin development. They also understand Maven-style publishing, repository setup, and how to keep builds compatible with Java and Kotlin toolchains. Good specialists know where to put logic so the build stays readable.
When to bring help
Companies usually bring in freelance Gradle expertise when builds slow down, dependency conflicts appear, or a migration needs careful control. Berlin teams often need support for mixed in-house and remote collaboration, especially when product, platform, and release work all touch the same build. The right specialist reduces friction without forcing a rewrite.
Strong delivery
A strong professional does more than edit scripts. They trace build failures, remove hidden coupling, improve incremental builds, and document the conventions that teams must follow. They also watch for plugin conflicts, duplicate logic, and fragile release steps.
Where it fits
Gradle shows up in backend services, Android apps, shared libraries, and internal platforms. It is often used where teams need flexible build rules, custom automation, or strict dependency control. Clear builds matter most when several specialists contribute to the same codebase over time.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about Gradle.
Gradle is used to automate builds, tests, packaging, and publishing. Teams choose it for Java, Kotlin, Android, and other JVM-based projects when they need flexible build logic and clean dependency handling.
Gradle is more flexible than Maven because build logic can be expressed in code and adapted to complex project structures. Maven is often simpler for standard setups, while Gradle is a better fit when teams need custom tasks, plugin-based workflows, or multi-module builds.
A strong Gradle specialist helps when builds are slow, dependency conflicts keep appearing, or an Android or Java project needs safer release automation. They are also useful during migrations, especially when the current build setup has grown over time and nobody fully trusts it.
Gradle work often goes together with Java, Kotlin, Android tooling, CI pipelines, and repository management. Many specialists also know the Gradle Wrapper, custom plugins, and how to align versions across libraries and build tooling.
No. Gradle is very common in Android work, but it is also widely used for backend services, shared libraries, internal platforms, and JVM-based tooling. Android is only one part of its ecosystem.
A good Gradle expert writes clear build logic, avoids duplication, and explains why a build change is safe. Look for someone who can diagnose dependency issues, improve build speed, and keep scripts maintainable for the rest of the team.
Most Gradle work can be done remotely because it centers on code, build files, and CI pipelines. On-site time in Berlin can help when build issues are tied to team processes, release coordination, or tight collaboration with product and platform specialists.
Before starting a Gradle project, good specialists ask about the current build structure, the number of modules, the plugin setup, and how releases are handled. They also want to know whether the work is a cleanup, a migration, or ongoing support so they can plan the right approach.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects, 92% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 54% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects are English (94%), German (88%), and Spanish (12%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (41%), and Retail (41%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (94%), and Quality Assurance (41%).
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