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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
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
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
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))
Konstantin G.
Last position:
Senior Business Analyst, Requirements Engineer, Project Manager at Perelyn GmbH
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Statistics of experts using Gradle
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
28 years (Germany: 19 years)

Position duration
1.8 years

Positions per freelancer
18 (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: 57%)
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 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Munich 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 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 19 Sep 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 (93%)
- Banking and Finance (87%)
- Automotive (67%)
- Insurance (53%)
- Government and Administration (47%)
- Telecommunication (47%)
- Manufacturing (40%)
- Retail (40%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Build automation with Gradle
Gradle is an open-source build automation tool for JVM projects, Android applications and multi-language codebases. It defines compilation, testing, packaging and publishing as repeatable tasks. Its incremental execution and build cache help teams shorten feedback loops while keeping delivery consistent.
DSLs and project structure
Gradle projects use either the Kotlin DSL or Groovy DSL to describe plugins, dependencies, tasks and conventions. Strong specialists organize multi-project builds with shared configuration, version catalogs and convention plugins. They also manage settings, source sets and custom task logic without turning build scripts into application code.
Ecosystem and tooling
Gradle connects source code, repositories and delivery systems across a broad JVM ecosystem.
- Configure Java, Kotlin, Scala or Android builds
- Integrate the Android Gradle Plugin and Kotlin plugins
- Publish artifacts to Maven-compatible repositories
- Run builds through GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins
- Use Build Cache, Develocity and dependency locking
Where companies use it
Companies use Gradle for backend services, Android products, libraries, command-line tools and shared enterprise platforms. It fits modular monorepos as well as focused service repositories. In Munich, specialists may support automotive, industrial, software and financial teams, working remotely or alongside local delivery groups.
When freelance expertise helps
External expertise is useful when builds become slow, fragile or difficult to upgrade. A specialist can migrate from Maven, modernize Groovy scripts to Kotlin DSL, resolve dependency conflicts or introduce reliable caching.
- Standardize build conventions across repositories
- Upgrade Gradle and plugin versions safely
- Diagnose flaky tasks and CI-only failures
- Improve dependency and artifact management
What strong specialists deliver
Experienced Gradle professionals connect build configuration with the wider delivery system. They understand Java or Kotlin, dependency resolution, semantic versioning, testing, containers and CI/CD. They explain trade-offs clearly, leave maintainable scripts, document conventions and measure improvements with reproducible build data rather than guesswork.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Gradle, in one place.
Gradle automates compiling, testing, packaging and publishing software. It is widely used for JVM applications, Android projects, shared libraries and multi-language builds that need flexible task orchestration.
Gradle offers a programmable Kotlin or Groovy DSL, fine-grained task control and strong support for incremental builds and caching. Maven uses a more convention-driven XML model, so the better choice depends on project complexity, team familiarity and existing build infrastructure.
A strong Gradle specialist usually understands Java or Kotlin, dependency resolution, testing frameworks and CI/CD systems. Android work may also require the Android Gradle Plugin, while platform delivery often benefits from Docker, artifact repositories and version-control workflows.
The required Gradle experience depends on the build problem rather than the codebase size. A simple configuration change may need focused knowledge, while a multi-project migration or performance effort calls for someone who has designed conventions, handled plugin upgrades and diagnosed build scans.
Gradle projects are usually well suited to remote collaboration because build scripts, CI logs and repositories can be reviewed online. Munich-based teams should define access, review routines and language expectations early, especially when the specialist must coordinate with on-site product or release groups.
Bring in a Gradle expert when build times, dependency conflicts, plugin upgrades or CI failures are slowing delivery. Freelance support is also useful before a large Android, JVM or monorepo migration, when an independent review can reduce configuration risk.
Good Gradle work produces readable scripts, predictable local and CI builds, clear dependency boundaries and documented conventions. Ask for examples of build migrations or performance investigations, then review whether the specialist explains trade-offs and validates changes with repeatable evidence.
A Gradle specialist may deliver project conventions, Kotlin or Groovy DSL scripts, custom plugins, dependency catalogs, CI integration and publishing workflows. They can also document upgrade paths, improve caching and leave tests that protect critical build behavior.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects is 101 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 808 € 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 28 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects are German (100%), English (93%), and Spanish (27%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Gradle in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Banking and Finance (87%), and Automotive (67%).
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 (67%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Gradle
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