
Gradle Experts in Munich
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Munich, who have recently used Gradle
Anton L.
Last position:
Senior Solution Architect
Internal systems with regulatory and security requirements could not be used directly by AI tools for incident triage, troubleshooting, and documentation search. The goal was to securely integrate these systems through MCP while preserving existing acce...
Vitaliy R.
Last position:
DevOps GitOps (temp) at Signal Iduna
- Responsible for Openshift/Kubernetes on-prem administration and developer support.
- Developed URP infrastructure automation with Python, Ansible, Kustomize and ArgoCD, Argo Workflow/Events stack.
- Wrote smoke and load tests for URP infrastructure utilizing Python, Kustomize and ApplicationSets.
- Helped to set up and deploy URP infrastructure in Google Cloud, GKE.
- Set up monitoring for URP and ArgoCD stack with Splunk Cloud.
- Performed system administration tasks across RedHat Linux, Kubernetes/Openshift, ArgoCD, GitLab, Bitbucket Enterprise, Kafka and MongoDB.
Tezcan D.
Last position:
Solution Architect / Project Manager at German Football Association
- Overall responsibility for the project lifecycle from scope definition to completion
- Close collaboration with platform teams, IT leaders, and external service providers
- Application of SAFe principles and structured sprint work
- Creation of a migration roadmap with clear milestones
- Monitoring of the lifecycle: onboarding, repository migration, replication of permissions, and system tests
- Visualization of the architecture with PlantUML and Gliffy as well as documentation in Confluence
- Regular status reports and running knowledge transfer sessions
Celso K.
Last position:
SAP Commerce Cloud FullStack Developer at Spar
- Implementation of a GitLab CI/CD pipeline based on SAP Commerce Cloud 2211
- Development of a new B2C shop with Vue, Node and TypeScript to ensure scalability, extensibility and performance optimization
- Integration of Microsoft Azure Event Grid with SAP Hybris
- Implementation of BDD with Cucumber using Gherkin syntax to promote collaboration between development and business teams
- Support and customization of a Spartacus shop
- Technologies/Languages: Java, REST, OData, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Cucumber, Node, Vue, TypeScript, Spartacus, GitLab CI/CD, Gradle, Maven, Ant, SonarQube
Enis S.
Last position:
Software Developer at 50Hertz Transmission GmbH
- Participated in the gradual modernization of components into cloud-native 12-factor applications.
- Worked closely with the business operations team to eliminate manual processes and resolve several performance bottlenecks.
- Designed and implemented a CI/CD pipeline to increase developer productivity, enforce quality and security checks, and automate product delivery.
- Migrated several components into the OpenShift Kubernetes cluster.
- Built a monitoring stack from scratch with Prometheus and Grafana to monitor services running in OpenShift.
- Developed dashboards in both Grafana and Splunk for operational transparency.
- Implemented an OIDC/OAuth2-based single sign-on (SSO) solution with Keycloak to secure multiple applications.
- Technologies: Java, Spring, Quarkus, Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Spring Data, Hibernate, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Keycloak, OIDC, OAuth2, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Spark.
Andreas K.
Last position:
Senior Developer at ioki GmbH, a Deutsche Bahn AG company
- Fullstack development based on Next.js and TypeScript
- Development and optimization of geospatial database queries for PostgreSQL/PostGIS
- Visualization of geospatial data using Mapbox
- Design and execution of load tests and performance optimizations
- Code reviews and documentation tasks
- Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Next.js, React, Zod, tRPC, Storybooks, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, MicroORM, Knex, Material UI, Mapbox, BullMQ, Jest, Playwright, Artillery.io, K6, Sentry, Figma, GitLab, Grafana, GTFS
Mani Y.
Last position:
Full-Stack Developer at Continentale Krankenversicherung a. G.
- Set up the new digitization strategy.
- Using Camunda as a process engine, a new way of handling batch and dialog tasks is created.
- In close cooperation with the business department, the individual processes are created and put into production.
- Forms for controlling manual interventions, e.g. when adjusting applications, are implemented.
- Gradual migration of old code from IBM WebSphere to JBoss.
- Skills: Arquillian, Camunda, Initiative, Empathy, Hibernate, Jackson, Java/JEE, JBoss, Jersey, JSON, JUnit, Openness to criticism, Willingness to learn, REST, Teamwork, WebServices.
Anton K.
Last position:
Head of Overall Technical Integration NSC / Hadoop Cloud Development at IABG
Head of overall technical integration NSC (National Secure Cloud, project with approx. 60 employees).
Technical integration of all subprojects into one product, definition of interfaces and basic components of a cloud including hardware, technical architecture of the IABG platform.
Development of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) capable of creating private/mixed clouds of any complexity based on a textual description with one click or interactively.
CMP also includes the complete hardware management lifecycle.
Kubernetes, OpenStack and Hadoop are used as the foundation.
The management layer includes Harbor, Gitea, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher and Jenkins, which are configured automatically.
Private cloud can run any customer workloads, including a full Hadoop layer with HDFS, Spark, MapReduce, Mesos, HBase and around 20 additional ML/DL technologies.
Hadoop worker clusters can also be installed automatically without Kubernetes on bare metal or commodity hardware.
OpenStack with Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Swift, Cinder, Ceph.
Development of a Java application Rudi: SOAP, REST, containers, DB.
Technologies: Kubernetes (K3s, Rke2, Minikube, Harbor, Gitea, Jenkins, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher), OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Swift, Ceph, Cinder, Sahara, Magnum, Kayobe, Kolla, Bigrost, Ironic), Hadoop (HDFS, Ambari, Solr, Livy, Ranger, YARN, Tez, HBase, Kafka, Hive, Zookeeper, MapReduce, Spark, Oozie, Flink), virtualization (Kubernetes (K3S), VMware, Oracle), scripting (Ansible, Puppet, Juju, Shell, Groovy, Gradle, Maven).
Christoph S.
Last position:
Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten
- Development of the Ibalis portal and payment procedures for applying for and paying out EU funding.
- Publicly accessible portal, e.g. for farmers.
- Projects over the last ten years were carried out according to Scrum.
- Technologies: Spring, Wicket, Hibernate, Postgres, JSON, XML, REST, Bitbucket, Podam, Buckets, JUnit, Gradle, Intellij, Bamboo, Swagger.
Waldemar L.
Last position:
Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer at Messe München GmbH
- Act as interface between business, IT demand management and IT architecture, analyzing functional and technical requirements in Salesforce.
- Create requirements and specification documents together with the business unit and develop solution concepts.
- Define, control implementation and acceptance of epics and user stories.
- Advise business units on optimization potentials and develop functional solution concepts.
- Support project management and product owners in scope analysis and ticket creation.
- Develop identity management solutions and deletion concepts in the Salesforce environment.
- Define and implement DWH reports for analysis of business areas and process optimizations.
- Document and optimize functional process workflows.
- Tools and technologies: Miro, Salesforce, Draw.io, Atlassian Stack (Confluence, JIRA), Figma, Enterprise Architect, MS Teams, Slack, Zoom, SCRUM, agile project management.
Alexander S.
Last position:
Full-Stack Developer (Java/Kotlin/Angular) at Hypoport (Vergleich.de)
Further development of the vergleich.de website
Development of new and improvement of existing backend services as microservices
Deployment via TeamCity and GitHub Actions
Development of monitoring tools
Development of REST APIs
Database migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL
Java and Kotlin (including Spring, Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate)
Angular (TypeScript) and JavaScript
IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm
Apache Maven
Oracle DB (and SQL Developer), MongoDB, PostgreSQL DB
Git (GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket)
TeamCity
Jira
Docker
JUnit, Mockito, jasmin
Bela B.
Last position:
Full Stack Lead Developer, Backend Architect at Telefonica (O2)
The software supports the complete planning and approval of antennas for mobile telephony.
The system was implemented using an event-driven microservice architecture for cloud-native deployment with Quarkus on the backend, Kafka for communication, and Angular for the frontend. Services run on Kubernetes in Google Cloud. A special challenge was synchronizing with the legacy system still used by some users.
Christof N.
Last position:
Senior Developer at Otto GmbH
- Further development of personalized advertising spaces on the Otto web shop
- Full-stack development in a Kanban-driven team of about 15 people
- Technologies: Microservices, Kotlin, Spring, Spring Boot, Gradle, MongoDB, HTML, JS, Node, SCSS, AWS
- Development process: Kanban; continuous integration with AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions
Michael P.
Last position:
Setup Azure cloud, Java development, CI/CD pipelines at Sulzer GmbH
- Migration of a mainframe application (PL/1, zOS) to the cloud (Azure)
- Data transfer from z/OS (USS) to Azure storage (blob containers, file shares)
- Implementation of the mainframe job control in Java
- Mapping of job network dependencies in Control-M
- Performance analysis and optimization measures
- DB2 (z/OS) migration to Postgres (Azure)
- Technologies: Azure (storage, VM, VMSS, Postgres), z/OS (USS), DB2, Postgres, Packer, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Control-M
- Tools: Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ
Janusz M.
Last position:
IoT Edge Computing / Self-Driving-Cars at Automotive consulting company
- Platform: Python ecosystem, RHEL 8, K10, AWS IoT Core, AWS Lambda, MLOps
- Software: Java JEE/cloud, IntelliJ IDEA, AWS IoT Core, AWS Edge and Lambda, AWS SageMaker SDK, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, OpenShift 4, Tekton, Flux, Helm charts, JSON/XML technology, Nginx, Apache Spark, OpenAI (GPT Plus, DALL-E 3, Whisper), GAN, GitHub Copilot, AI/machine and deep learning, Jupyter notebooks, TensorFlow 2, Colab, Keras API, Prometheus, Grafana, Conda, Python 3.9, PySci stack (NumPy, pandas, Scikit-learn, matplotlib)
- Responsible for webinar:
- IoT edge computing: architecture, components, resources, management
- IoT edge computing with MicroK8s, designing and creating flows/diagrams for AWS, three-step model for IoT ecosystem
- IoT processes, connectivity, data transfer and deployment, security
- Optimization of edge computing for IoT networks and services (AWS SQS queue, SNS notifications, events, analytics, buttons, device management/defender, Things Graph)
- Machine/deep learning frameworks (models, training, pipeline optimization, deployment in the cloud/at the edge (OpenShift), monitoring workloads with Prometheus and Grafana)
- Performance optimization for low latency/resilience using adaptive ML/DL/RL models for customer IoT data
- Analysis of large sensor data sets with Apache Spark, Kafka clusters
- Kasten K10 data management platform on Kubernetes multi-cluster with Helm chart, deployment, backup/disaster recovery (RTO/RPO), data lifecycle and security management
- Implementation of multilayer artificial neural network (ANN) with TensorFlow 2 and Colab for regression and classification; data analysis and provisioning for applications; development of models for testing and training, deployment of models
- Automation of business streamline processes with AI (Azure OpenAI, Discord bots/Zapier apps AI assistants (IntelliJ, GitHub Copilot))
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Statistics of experts using Gradle
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
26 years (Germany: 19 years)

Position duration
1.7 years (Germany: 1.8 years)

Positions per freelancer
17 (Germany: 14)

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 91%)
Master's degree or higher
92% (Germany: 58%)
Doctorate
23% (Germany: 7%)

Certifications per freelancer
2

Most common languages
German, English, Spanish

Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 96%)
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Munich are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Munich using Gradle
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 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Gradle experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (94%)
- Banking and Finance (88%)
- Automotive (63%)
- Insurance (56%)
- Government and Administration (44%)
- Telecommunication (44%)
- Manufacturing (38%)
- Retail (38%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Build automation
Gradle is an open-source build automation tool for Java, Kotlin, Groovy, and other JVM projects. It defines compilation, testing, packaging, dependency resolution, and publishing as repeatable tasks. Its task graph runs only the work required, helping teams keep large builds efficient and maintainable.
Project types
Gradle supports Android applications, backend services, libraries, plugins, and shared components. Professionals use it for single repositories as well as complex multi-project builds with common conventions and version catalogs.
- Configure Java and Kotlin compilation
- Package libraries and applications
- Manage multi-project dependencies
- Publish artifacts to internal or public repositories
Ecosystem and tooling
The Gradle Wrapper pins the build tool version so local machines and CI agents use the same setup. Kotlin DSL and Groovy DSL provide flexible configuration, while Gradle Build Cache, version catalogs, and convention plugins support consistent builds at scale. Common integrations include GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Docker, Maven repositories, and IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA.
When expertise matters
Companies bring in freelance Gradle specialists when builds become slow, fragile, or difficult to upgrade. They also need focused support during a migration from Maven, an Android build redesign, or the rollout of shared conventions across many repositories.
- Diagnose dependency conflicts and task-graph issues
- Reduce duplicated build logic
- Improve CI reliability and build caching
- Upgrade Gradle, plugins, and JVM toolchains
Skills around Gradle
Strong professionals combine Gradle knowledge with Java or Kotlin, Git, testing, artifact repositories, and CI/CD. They understand semantic versioning, dependency locking, reproducible builds, and secure handling of credentials. In Munich, teams may work on-site, remotely, or in a hybrid model; clear technical English and, where needed, German support help distributed work run smoothly.
Quality signals
A capable specialist explains why a build is slow instead of applying random configuration changes. They inspect build scans, dependency graphs, cache behavior, and CI logs, then make improvements that are measurable and easy to maintain. Good documentation, isolated convention plugins, reliable tests, and a controlled migration plan are strong signs of quality.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Gradle, in one place.
Gradle automates the steps required to compile source code, resolve dependencies, run tests, package applications, and publish artifacts. It is common in Java, Kotlin, Android, and other JVM projects, from small libraries to large multi-project repositories.
Gradle offers a programmable task model, flexible Kotlin or Groovy configuration, and strong support for incremental execution and build caching. Maven uses a more convention-driven XML model, which can be easier to standardize but less flexible for unusual build workflows.
A strong Gradle specialist usually works comfortably with Java or Kotlin, Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and artifact repositories. Knowledge of Docker, JVM toolchains, dependency security, and Android build systems can be important depending on the project.
The right level depends on the build problem, not a fixed number of years. A straightforward library may need configuration and publishing knowledge, while a large migration or slow multi-project build calls for someone experienced with task graphs, convention plugins, caching, and CI diagnostics.
Gradle is well suited to remote collaboration when the repository includes a pinned Gradle Wrapper, documented conventions, and reproducible CI builds. Teams in Munich can work remotely or combine remote delivery with on-site workshops, provided communication and access to build infrastructure are clear.
A Gradle freelancer is useful when builds are slow, dependency resolution is unreliable, or configuration is duplicated across repositories. Specialists can also support Maven migrations, Android build changes, plugin upgrades, artifact publishing, and CI/CD improvements without adding permanent capacity.
Ask the specialist to explain the cause of a build issue and the trade-offs behind the proposed fix. High-quality Gradle work leaves readable configuration, reliable tests, secure repository access, documented conventions, and improvements that remain stable in local and CI environments.
Gradle is best known in the JVM ecosystem, but it also supports Kotlin, Groovy, Android, native components, and custom build workflows. Its plugin model lets teams connect compilation, testing, packaging, code generation, and publishing across different technologies.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects is 102 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 820 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 92% hold at least a Master's degree, and 23% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects have 26 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects are German (100%), English (94%), and Spanish (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Banking and Finance (88%), and Automotive (63%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Project Management (63%).
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