HTTP Experts in Berlin
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Sascha B.
Last position:
Web Developer at GxPlex
- Built a customized MediaWiki instance, including installation, MySQL database, SSL, and automatic backups
- Set up user roles (Admin, Mod, Verified, User) and a permissions system
- FlaggedRevisions for editorial review workflows · Commenting and rating extensions
Rüdiger S.
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.
Imran A.
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.
Ola V.
Last position:
IT Lecturer
- IT training in theory and practice for IT specialists in application development and system integration
Mohsin H.
Last position:
BBM GenAI MiDAS program coordinator for Bosch eBike at Robert Bosch GmbH
The MiDAS program aims to integrate Generative AI across the entire BBM organization. My role is to enable the eBike division to adopt and leverage Generative AI by collaborating closely with the MiDAS team in India.
Management:
- Enable the eBike division to adopt GenAI through tailored solutions.
- Collaborate with the MiDAS team in India to design solutions for Generative AI use cases specific to the eBike division.
- Coordinate with the eBike teams to integrate GenAI systems, tools, plugins, and services provided by the MiDAS team.
- Plan roadmaps with eBike and MiDAS India team Product Managers for the delivery and integration of Generative AI solutions.
Toralf C.
Last position:
IT Consultant in PKI Software Development at BWI
- Implementation of a full-stack application with Angular as the frontend framework and Java as the backend language
- Use of the Swagger OpenAPI specification for REST communication between the frontend and backend applications
- Control of a card printer via the Nexus Card SDK framework
- Design and implementation of card management software with a web interface and a JavaFX module for printer monitoring
- Use of Cucumber tests for test automation and creation of test artifacts to test outside the development environment
- Use of Wireshark for network investigations to analyze the API of a third-party product and to monitor the REST API of the self-developed software
Nikunjkumar P.
Last position:
Senior Java Backend Developer at Questax Professionals GmbH
- Provide the Price Listing Service team with prices for all cars and vans in different markets
- Adapt market-specific requirements such as taxes, government subsidies, campaigns
- Import and synchronize new prices for all new and existing cars and store them in the Redis datastore
- Support our product and on-call duty
- Daily business, development of new features, bug fixing
- Pair programming, code review, mob programming
- Develop POCs for new ideas
- Maintain and extend the backend
- DevOps tasks
- Run Kubernetes updates
- Adjust and further develop Kubernetes resources
- Develop and adapt Helm charts
- Adapt and update ArgoCD
- Maintain, adapt, and improve CI/CD
Qaiser A.
Last position:
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
Peter K.
Last position:
Hardware and Software Developer / Project Manager at Anonymer Kunde
- Development of control units for the automotive industry incl. embedded software
- CAN bus, Vector Tools, CANoe
- Support of the development process according to ISO 26262
- Ensuring cyber security standards:
- Key exchange (PKI) between vehicle and control units
- Hardware Security Module (HSM)
- Communication with external service providers (international)
- Development (PCB) of measuring adapters, statistical analysis of sensors
- IoT and embedded software development, backend administration
Varsha S.
Last position:
Embedded Engineer (Working Student) at Lautsprecher Teufel GmbH
- Proficient in using JIRA for sprint planning, bug reporting, and task management.
- Modified and enhanced embedded C/C++ firmware code on STM32, ESP32 and ARM-based MCUs and SoCs.
- Debugged and fixed embedded software issues; managed code with Git/GitLab (commits, merge requests, reviews).
- Created and maintained test cases and test plans using Testmo.
- Debugged and validated firmware builds; provided detailed bug reports.
- Executed manual tests across development stages.
- Familiar with RTOS concepts and implementation, including task scheduling and interprocess communication for real-time embedded systems.
- Managed planning and execution of acceptance and regression testing.
- Supported mobile app and system-level testing for audio streaming device.
- Tested communication protocols (HTTP, I2C, SPI, UART) and API interactions.
- Used terminal tools and SSH to debug embedded Linux systems.
Cyprien A.
Last position:
Systemberatung.it GmbH
Development of a Shopware 6 plugin to display a standalone spare parts search within Shopware
Model selection via VIN/full-text search and dropdown menus
Selection of desired component groups
Selection of required spare parts from an exploded view or parts list
Garage extension:
Added a 'Garage' menu item in the header
Storage of the vehicle ID in the user profile
Ability to add, filter, and remove multiple vehicles
Adding vehicles by VIN (VIN-search REST endpoint) or by the garage's filter options
Mario E.
Last position:
Developer and Consultant at Freelancer
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Statistics of experts using HTTP
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years (Germany: 22 years)
Position duration
1.8 years (Germany: 1.9 years)
Positions per freelancer
17 (Germany: 18)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Automotive, Education
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 79%)
Master's degree or higher
50% (Germany: 43%)
Doctorate
13% (Germany: 9%)
Certifications per freelancer
2 (Germany: 3)
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 94%)
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 Berlin 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 Berlin using HTTP
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.
HTTP 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 (100%)
- Automotive (67%)
- Education (50%)
- Manufacturing (50%)
- Retail (50%)
- Healthcare (42%)
- Insurance (42%)
- Media and Entertainment (33%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What HTTP does
HTTP, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is the foundation for communication between browsers, applications and web services. It defines how clients request resources and how servers return responses, including methods, headers, status codes, caching and content negotiation. Experts use it to make digital products reliable, responsive and interoperable.
Where it is used
HTTP supports public websites, mobile backends, internal tools, payment flows and service-to-service communication. It carries HTML, JSON, files, events and media through APIs and web applications.
- REST and JSON APIs
- Browser and mobile application backends
- Microservice and third-party integrations
- Content delivery and asset loading
- Webhooks and asynchronous workflows
Versions and tooling
Professionals work across HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, selecting the right transport behavior for each environment. Their toolkit may include REST clients, reverse proxies, load balancers, TLS, DNS, CDNs and observability systems. They also understand headers, cookies, compression, connection reuse and cache directives.
When companies need expertise
Freelance specialists are useful when an API is slow, unreliable or difficult to evolve. They can define consistent contracts, investigate status-code patterns, improve caching and prepare traffic flows for new products. In Berlin, they often support distributed teams working with local product, media, commerce and industrial businesses.
What strong professionals deliver
Strong HTTP professionals connect protocol details with application behavior. They document endpoints, choose clear resource and error models, secure authentication flows and test edge cases such as retries, timeouts and partial failures. They use traces, logs and packet-level evidence rather than guessing from symptoms.
Choosing the right specialist
Look for practical experience with the systems around HTTP, not only familiarity with terminology. A suitable expert can explain trade-offs between REST, GraphQL and gRPC, collaborate with frontend and infrastructure teams, and show how changes will be tested and monitored. Remote work is usually effective when documentation, access and communication routines are clear; on-site collaboration may help during complex incident response or architecture workshops.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with HTTP? These answers cover the essentials.
HTTP enables communication between clients and servers on the web. It is used for websites, APIs, mobile applications, file delivery, webhooks and communication between services.
HTTP is a transport protocol, while GraphQL defines an API query model and gRPC commonly uses a strongly typed remote procedure call approach. They can work together: GraphQL and gRPC are often carried over HTTP, while REST APIs use HTTP methods and status codes directly.
A strong HTTP specialist should understand API design, TLS, DNS, reverse proxies, load balancing and observability. Experience with authentication, caching, databases, containers and cloud networking is also valuable because protocol behavior depends on the surrounding system.
The right level depends on the work. A focused API integration may need a specialist who can validate contracts and troubleshoot requests, while a migration involving HTTP/2, HTTP/3, proxies or high traffic calls for deeper production experience and careful testing.
HTTP work is usually well suited to remote collaboration because specifications, logs, traces and test environments can be shared digitally. A Berlin team should agree on access, incident communication and documentation, while language expectations should be explicit if German is needed for internal stakeholders.
An HTTP specialist is especially useful when failures involve timeouts, redirects, caching, headers, TLS, proxy behavior or inconsistent API contracts. They can isolate whether the problem sits in the client, network, gateway or service instead of treating every symptom as application code.
Ask for a clear explanation of request lifecycles, status codes, caching and failure handling. Good HTTP professionals discuss measurable tests, security controls, trace data and rollback plans, and they explain trade-offs in language that product and technical stakeholders can both follow.
HTTP projects in Berlin can involve product companies, commerce, media, finance and industrial systems, with teams ranging from fully remote to partly on-site. Specialists should be ready to collaborate across application, infrastructure and security functions and clarify whether German-language communication is required.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used HTTP in their recent projects is 93 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 744 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used HTTP in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 50% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used HTTP in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used HTTP in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used HTTP in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Automotive (67%), and Education (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used HTTP in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Quality Assurance (75%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used HTTP
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