HAProxy Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used HAProxy
Laurin Hagemann
Last position:
Software Architect (Freelance) at Care4Sure
- Delivered MVP-focused full-stack architecture for a health-sector client: Vite/React frontend, backend services on Google Cloud Run, and Supabase for database plus IAM/authentication.
- Supported product requirements engineering and prioritized cost-aware workload placement, implementing browser-side/edge computation where feasible before moving logic to backend services.
Mario Pucko
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager / Program Lead – Network Strategy 2030 at ALDB GmbH
- Holistic responsibility for modernizing and expanding federal networks and upgrading critical data center and telecom infrastructure in the high-security agency environment of BDBOS
- Planning and management of the expansion of national BOS network infrastructure in the VS-NfD/KRITIS environment with technical decision authority at the architecture and component level (Cisco, Layer 2/3, WAN redundancy)
- Planning, tendering (EVB-IT/UVgO) and oversight of the upgrade of security-critical telecom infrastructure for emergency call 110/112 (ACD)
- Capacity planning, rack integration, structured cabling, power supply, cooling concept (CRAC/In-Row) and DCIM monitoring for data center expansion
- Building the IT department from scratch: structures, governance, processes, team recruiting, vendor selection and long-term IT strategy
- Planning and managing infrastructure and application migrations: migration strategies, batch planning, hypercare stabilization and rollback concepts
- Creating vendor-neutral specifications (telecom systems, signature solutions) according to EVB-IT and UVgO; contract award and vendor management
- Setting up a secure IT environment according to BSI basic protection, ISO 27001 and VS-NfD; developing IT security concepts and CMDB analyses
- Hands-on program leadership: decision papers for management and steering committees, risk management, reporting and change request control
Uwe Schwarz
Last position:
Technical Program Lead IPv6 Migration at Deutsche Rentenversicherung (RP, BW)
- Technical program ownership for the IPv6 migration at DRV RP and DRV BW, with a focus on migration planning, execution structure, and cross-functional technical coordination.
- Designed and implemented an operational control model with dashboard, action board, KPI portfolio, risk register, and decision index to translate technical topics into structured delivery artifacts.
- Coordinated technical groundwork for architecture and rollout across IPv6 addressing, segmentation, dual-stack target design, test-lab planning, and cross-team dependencies.
- Supported security and compliance-related requirements in the context of BSI, NIS2, and critical infrastructure, translating them into traceable evidence, risks, and management reporting.
- Achievement: Established a reusable intake-to-governance workflow for systematically capturing technical actions, risks, open issues, and evidence requirements.
- Achievement: Created an operational baseline for technical program execution with measurable KPIs, clear ownership, and transparent decision support.
Olaf Radicke
Last position:
DevOps Architect / Consultant at Authority with increased security requirements
- Identification of requirements (legal, organizational, and technical)
- Design of solution architectures
- Evaluation of concepts and technologies
- Preparation of decision templates
- Architectural Decision Records (ADR)
- Coordination of implementation
- Review of implementations
- Documentation
Serge Kalinin
Last position:
MLOps (machine learning operations) at REWE Digital GmbH
- It is like a startup within REWE, where we have to build a new forecasting system on Google Cloud Platform from the scratch. Although, officially my role is called MLOps, my actual tasks also include development of data processing pipelines (data engineering) and data scientists tasks such as feature engineering and model trainings.
- GCP: Terraform (tofu), Vertex AI (Kubeflow), Cloud Run, IAM, Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Artifact Registry
- Data engineering: Snowflake as the main data warehouse, Terraform, DBT for data model implementations
- CI/CD: GitLab. We have built a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments of new releases up to production environment
Vitaliy Ryumshyn
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.
Jorge Pérez Suárez
Last position:
Software Engineer – AWS and Kubernetes Specialist at Citti
- Creation, maintenance and hardening of Kubernetes clusters employing Ansible and ArgoCD
- Keywords: Ansible, AWX, Kubernetes, NetApp, Prometheus, CI/CD ArgoCD, SSO, Fluent-bit, HAProxy, Calico, Keycloak, oauth2-proxy, SealedSecrets, kubeseal, Aqua kube-bench, CIS-Benchmarks, Aqua Trivy operator
Oluwasegun Adebayo
Last position:
Observability Specialist at ING GmbH
- Requirements analysis for the enterprise-wide observability platform.
- Creation of playbooks and pipelines for rolling out Envoy, OpenTelemetry Collectors, and OpenTelemetry Agents.
- Conducting load tests for capacity planning of metrics for the observability platform.
- Documentation and implementation of compliance standards for production readiness.
- Creation and design of RED metrics, spanmetrics, JBoss, and Tomcat dashboards for mission-critical applications.
- Setting up alerts for critical applications for proactive incident response.
- Integration of OpenShift applications into the enterprise-wide observability stack.
Alexander Vasiliev
Last position:
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer at Kaufland e-commerce / real.digital (ex hitmeister.de)
- Evolved the platform from bare-metal infrastructure with a monolithic PHP application to a hybrid Google Cloud architecture with Go microservices on Kubernetes
- Managed and scaled a production infrastructure with 300+ VMs and dozens of clusters, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis and Elasticsearch clusters
- Designed architecture, deployment, monitoring, performance analysis, and upgrades for all platform services using Terraform and Ansible
- Migrated observability systems from ELK and Prometheus to Datadog, managed with Terraform
- Introduced Jenkins CI/CD with SonarQube integration and automated tests to speed up feedback cycles
- Containerized the testing environment and implemented GitLab CI pipelines for Docker image builds, static code analysis, and infrastructure tests
- Performed zero-downtime migrations of MySQL and MongoDB clusters to Google Cloud
- Developed reusable Ansible roles for database clusters and automated data obfuscation for staging environments
- Decomposed monolithic databases and migrated to microservice architectures
- Built tools to detect and optimize slow queries in MySQL and MongoDB
- Conducted online schema migrations with pt-online-schema-change without downtime windows
- Developed internal Go applications for batch queries, GitLab-Jira integration, and MongoDB backup recovery
- Technologies: Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Go, Bash, Python, PHP, SQL, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Drone CI, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, ELK, Prometheus, Datadog, Nagios, Zabbix, Nginx, HAProxy, Vault, Helm, SonarQube, Filebeat, Auditbeat, Google Cloud, AWS
Pierre Gronau
Last position:
Ansible Automation, Windows Third Level Support at DB InfraGO AG
- PRISMA project
- Ansible automation
- Windows third level support for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2013, Windows 2016, Windows 2019
Gabriel Kaufmann
Last position:
NewMedia at TYPOworx GmbH
- Media designer for digital and print media, focus: digital media, PHP development, TYPO3
- PHP, MySQL programming
- Full-stack (frontend & backend development)
- IT consulting
- Web hosting, consulting, and IT services
- Software and internet projects
- IT system administration
- Linux and Mac system administration
Daniel Boesswetter
Last position:
Senior Cloud Consultant and Developer at SDIA/Leitmotiv
- Consulting an NGO in the field of data center sustainability in publicly funded projects (BMUKN with NADIKI and Federal Environment Agency with SIEC)
- Development of Python APIs and web applications, deployment on AWS/ECS with Terraform
- Collecting power consumption metrics for servers, CPUs, GPUs running AI workloads
- Technologies used: AWS, EC2, ECS, Fargate, CloudMap, VPC, Route53, Lambda, EventBridge, CodeBuild/CodePipeline/CodeDeploy, Terraform, Docker, Linux, Bash scripting, Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, SQL, MariaDB, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Prometheus, Zabbix, Kubernetes, Letsencrypt, certificate management
Nils Meyer
Last position:
Database Architecture for PostgreSQL at ComputaCenter / Deutsche
- Planning and documentation of database architecture and integration with other components provided by other teams and vendors
- Extensive documentation for the architecture, security, access control, encryption, roles and user management, backup and restore, disaster recovery and general operations
- Deployment of database clusters over 2 locations with 2 availability zones each
- Automation of deployment and operations including backup using Ansible
- Hardening of the database and operating system
- Migration of existing stand-alone database systems to cluster setup
- Technologies: PostgreSQL, Patroni, etcd, barman, RedHat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL), Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform, TLS, Hashicorp Vault, LUKS
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
Daniel Redwig
Last position:
Software Engineer at DB InfraGO AG
- Developed dynamic web components for displaying KPIs, intelligent map applications, and operational process analysis tools
- Angular 18+
- Leaflet, MapLibre
- NestJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- PostgreSQL, GraphQL, RabbitMQ
- Gitea, Jenkins, Docker
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Statistics of experts using HAProxy
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years
Position duration
1.9 years
Positions per freelancer
17
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Operations, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
83%
Master's degree or higher
33%
Doctorate
8%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
95%
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 HAProxy
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
What it does
HAProxy is a high-performance proxy and load balancer for TCP and HTTP traffic. It sits in front of services, spreads requests across backends, and helps keep user-facing systems fast and reachable.
Where it fits
It is used for reverse proxy setups, TLS termination, path-based routing, and health checks. Teams also rely on it for canary releases, failover, and safe traffic shifts during deployments.
Common tasks
- Design frontend and backend rules
- Set up stick tables and session persistence
- Tune timeouts, retries, and connection limits
- Secure traffic with certificates and modern ciphers
- Improve observability with logs and metrics
Ecosystem
Strong HAProxy professionals know Linux networking, DNS, certificates, and monitoring tools. They often work with Keepalived, Prometheus, Grafana, Consul, and Kubernetes ingress setups, plus HAProxy Enterprise where support and extra features matter.
When to bring help
Companies usually bring in freelance expertise when traffic grows, incidents repeat, or a migration touches the edge layer. In Germany, this often comes up in SaaS, e-commerce, media, and internal platform teams that need reliable remote support or on-site work in German-speaking settings.
What good experts deliver
Strong specialists do more than edit config files. They read traffic patterns, remove bottlenecks, test rollback paths, and document changes clearly so operations teams can keep the service stable after handover.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about HAProxy.
HAProxy is used to route traffic, balance load, and protect services at the edge. It is common in front of web apps, APIs, and internal platforms where stable connection handling matters. Teams also use it for TLS termination, health checks, and controlled failover.
A company usually needs HAProxy help when traffic grows, outages repeat, or routing rules become hard to manage. It also makes sense during migrations, container rollouts, and security changes around certificates or cipher policies. A specialist can stabilize the setup before small issues become incidents.
HAProxy is often chosen for precise traffic control, low overhead, and strong balancing features. NGINX is frequently used as a web server and reverse proxy, while Traefik is popular in dynamic container environments. The right choice depends on whether the priority is edge performance, routing flexibility, or simple service discovery.
A strong HAProxy expert usually knows Linux networking, TCP and HTTP behavior, TLS, DNS, and log analysis. Familiarity with certificate management, monitoring stacks, and automation tools is also useful. In container platforms, knowledge of ingress patterns and service discovery helps a lot.
A HAProxy project with a simple reverse proxy can often be handled quickly by someone who knows the config syntax and the network basics. More complex work needs deeper skills in persistence, retries, failover, and traffic shaping. The harder the production environment, the more valuable hands-on incident experience becomes.
Yes, HAProxy specialists can usually work well remotely because most tasks are config, testing, and troubleshooting. On-site time can help when a project involves network appliances, legacy infrastructure, or a sensitive rollout in a local data center. For many German teams, a mix of remote work and a short on-site visit works best.
Look for a HAProxy professional who can explain why a setting exists, not just copy a config. Good signs are clear rollback plans, testing in staging, and logs or metrics that prove the change worked. Strong specialists also document the setup so the team can maintain it later.
HAProxy Community is often enough for standard load balancing, reverse proxying, and TLS termination. HAProxy Enterprise can be worth it when support, extra modules, or vendor-backed operations matter. A specialist should help you compare the operational needs, not just the feature list.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used HAProxy in their recent projects is 103 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 828 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used HAProxy in their recent projects, 83% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 33% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used HAProxy in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used HAProxy in their recent projects are German (100%), English (95%), and Spanish (14%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used HAProxy in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (52%), and Professional Services (43%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used HAProxy in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (86%), and Product Development (81%).
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