Hudson Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Hudson
Timo H.
Last position:
Software Developer at Smiths Detection
- Extension of a Swing-based UI for recording Security Restricted Articles during baggage screening.
- Introduction of a new workflow for recording Deboarding Events.
- Extension of the reporting system for Security Restricted Articles and Deboarding Events.
- Implementation using JBoss Wildfly, PostgreSQL, spring-boot 3.x, Java 8/21, Swing, JSF, JAX-RS/Resteasy, Docker, Maven, Kiro.
Khalid E.
Last position:
Lead Architect & Developer at kem-consulting
Development of an agent-based governance platform for the automated assurance of EU AI Act compliance and ODA-compliant orchestration of AI services in complex enterprise environments.
Design and implementation of an agent-based "Mission Control" framework (Aletheia Conductor) for autonomous state monitoring and process control.
Development of "Compliance-as-Code" (CaC) solutions based on OPA/Rego for system-wide enforcement of regulatory guardrails.
Integration of TM Forum ODA standards (TMF630, TMF622, TMF642) to ensure interoperability and standardization.
Building a highly available event-driven architecture using Redpanda and CloudEvents v1.0 for near-real-time event processing.
Implementation of an audit-proof "Evidence Chain" through cryptographic linking of trace logs in preparation for automated audits.
Tech Stack: Java 21 (Quarkus Native), TypeScript (Next.js), Redpanda (Kafka API), CloudEvents v1.0, OPA (Open Policy Agent) & Rego, TimescaleDB, ZincSearch, Redis, TM Forum ODA, Git, GitHub, Clean Code Development, Like-C4.
Marcus B.
Last position:
Java and Quarkus Expert at Large German energy service provider
- Modernization of a large-scale Java enterprise application*
The project is modernizing a complex enterprise application that has grown over many years. The existing Spring-based legacy system runs on Java 8, OSGi, and Eclipse RCP and is being gradually migrated to a modern, maintainable architecture with Java 25 and Quarkus.
Marcus works on analysis, architecture, refactoring, and implementation. One focus is on untangling historically grown structures and dependencies and on building a clean, sustainable Java and Quarkus technology stack.
Tools & technologies: Java 8, Java 25, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM with Panache, EclipseLink, OSGi, Eclipse RCP, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, REST, JSON, Git, Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, Jira, Confluence
Jörg S.
Last position:
Software Developer at Commerzbank
- Created interface programs between mainframe and distributed online screens
- Modified and created batch programs for daily data processing
- Provided advice on program setup, database structures, and programming tools
- Performed error analysis for the overall project
- System: OS/390, ISPF, TSO, IMS DB, IMS Connect, COBOL, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, IBM debug tool, Confluence, Jira, Eclipse, Rational Developer for Z Systems (RDZ)
Benjamin F.
Last position:
Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master & Agile Coach at Freelance
Freelance product owner, scrum master and agile coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries.
Last projects:
Adevinta: Technical Project Manager responsible for coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform.
Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company): Product Manager implementing and verifying on the business side a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers.
Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf: Product Manager Mobile advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS apps.
Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company), Berlin: Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering department together with the Director Engineering.
Responsibilities at Visual Meta GmbH:
Define and deliver a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission connecting to existing company strategy and strategies from adjacent departments.
Refine an existing OKR process together with OKR master and directors of other departments to increase focus and outcome.
Support the Director Engineering in creating a platform transformation strategy to transform a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establish a domain-based organizational setup.
Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 head-level colleagues and 17 operational team members from product management, data and UX/UI design.
Key achievements at Visual Meta GmbH:
Defined and delivered a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission.
Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen.
Created a career path framework for the product team defining roles and responsibilities from junior to head level positions.
Martin G.
Last position:
SAP Test Data Management Consultant at Siemens AG
End-to-end quality assurance in a global S/4HANA transformation program.
Automated test data setup, evaluation of search and generation solutions, and PoC execution (K2View, EPI-USE).
Coordination between Siemens teams and external partners, and structured knowledge transfer to internal stakeholders.
Created a basis for PoC decisions and sped up tool selection.
Standardized test data provisioning and noticeably reduced lead times.
Established governance for test data processes (policies, roles, KPIs).
Sustainable know-how transfer: empowered internal teams to operate solutions on their own.
Methods & technologies: S/4HANA, SAP, K2View, EPI-USE, test data management, data masking, data provisioning, test strategy, test management, coaching & enablement, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Office 365, Gemini.
Nikhil G.
Last position:
Co-founder / Solution Architect at Lima Care GmbH
- Developed a comprehensive business concept for a medical fall detection device based on a patented process registered in Germany
- Identified and collected use cases for medical device deployment in residential buildings and healthcare provider facilities
- Expanded the product scope to industry standards such as HL7/FHIR and designed a product based on modern communication protocols for IIoT
- Supported offshoring activities, defined SLA and scope-of-work documents for development teams after selecting various vendors
- Identified and selected hardware components (Terrabee, E-Con Systems) for LIDAR/TDOA functions
- Defined integrated AI features and LLM models for patient fall detection as well as AI-based audio triggers
- Oversaw the implementation of algorithms for object detection, fall detection, and false alarm identification
Sascha J.
Last position:
Agile Coach & Partner at Agisolve GmbH – Pragmatic Agility® | Edler & Stiegler GmbH | CTN Consulting
- Create a product and service portfolio delivering a 360 degree approach to digital corporate sustainability covering KPI management, CSRD reporting and sustainable strategy
- Create vision and business case
- Onboard and align business partners, negotiate contracts
- Set up partner network as self-organized agile team
- Co-develop product and service portfolio
- Coordinate sales and marketing, go-to-market strategy and roadmap
Michael K.
Last position:
Atruvia AG
- Further development of framework components and services in the Enterprise Banking Control Platform (EGP Framework), a set of cross-cutting libraries and services for all bounded context scopes of the platform.
- Migration from Java 17 to Java 21 and from Spring Boot 3.2 to 3.4 in about 80 library and service repositories (updating Maven POMs, Dockerfiles, Jenkins pipelines, source code migration, test updates).
- Writing unit and integration tests with JUnit and JGiven.
- Performing and analyzing performance measurements with Dynatrace.
- Enhancing multi-stage CI/CD pipelines (unit tests, security analyses, Docker builds, Harbor deployments, ...).
- Tech stack used: Java (90%), Python (10%), Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, JGiven, OpenAPI, Camunda 7, Podman, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Oracle DB, SonarQube, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Harbor, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence.
Jochen H.
Last position:
DevSecOps Expert at DB InfraGO
- Central build and delivery for 20+ applications, 100+ pipelines/day, 700+ GitLab projects
- Build pipelines for Go, Java and JavaScript
- Provisioning of 100+ components
- Quality assurance via GitLab Code Quality and SonarQube
- Checks for dependencies, licensing and vulnerabilities
- Release creation via Jira and ServiceNow
- SBOM, Supply Chain Security, distroless images
- PoC GitLab Runner: Nomad vs. Kubernetes
- Technologies: Artifactory, buildah, GitLab Premium, Go, Gradle, Jenkins, Mend, Podman
Martin Z.
Last position:
Consulting, Design and Development at ivv GmbH
- Design, development and maintenance of a web application as a policy management system based on a JEE backend and a Vaadin-based UI
- Design and development of interfaces
- Integration of databases
- Design and development of unit and integration tests
- Conceptual coordination with the client
- Technologies and methods: JEE, Vaadin, EJB, Innovator, Hibernate, REST, JMS, SQL, MQ, Maven, Selenium, Arquillian, Mockito, JUnit, Log4j, OOA, OOD, Scrum, Kanban, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Jenkins, Jenkins Pipelines, Git, GitLab, Subversion, Jira, Confluence, DB2, WebLogic
Kammel H.
Last position:
Senior Salesforce Developer at pflege.de
- Architecture and development of enterprise-level Salesforce solutions, including process automation, integrations, and Lightning components.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to optimize CRM architecture and data models.
- Tools & technologies: Salesforce, Apex, LWC, SOQL, Flows, REST APIs, Git, VS Code.
Ulrich C.
Last position:
Java Architect/Developer – Freelancer at DHL/DP – Rentenservice
Implementation of a Java service (daemon) as part of the automated processing of death notifications
Technologies used: Java17, SpringBoot, Hexagonal Architecture, REST API, Oracle, Maven, SonarQube, FindBugs, Checkstyle
Jörg-Ulrich H.
Last position:
Data flows for health insurance providers
- Further development and creation of data flows for health insurance providers
- Data management across various storage systems (DB2, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, S3, custom APIs, ...)
- Documentation and training
- Planning and deployment of NiFi 2.x (major upgrade)
- Integrating Grafana for visualization, monitoring, and alerting
- Extensive use of the NiFi API to continuously monitor the system and its components
Jacqueline K.
Last position:
OTTO
- Design, development, and monitoring of microservices
- Migrating functions from a monolithic system into separate microservices
- Designing and implementing new microservices (backend and frontend)
- Setting up and maintaining a CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions)
- Configuring cloud infrastructure with AWS CDK and Terraform
- Designing and implementing event-driven communication with AWS SNS/SQS and Apache Kafka
- Ensuring code quality through Test Driven Development (TDD), static code analysis, and Clean Code
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Statistics of experts using Hudson
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
15
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Healthcare
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
91%
Master's degree or higher
45%
Doctorate
9%
Certifications per freelancer
6
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
94%
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 Germany 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 Germany using Hudson
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.
Hudson 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 (81%)
- Healthcare (44%)
- Insurance (44%)
- Retail (44%)
- Transportation (38%)
- Media and Entertainment (38%)
- Telecommunication (38%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Hudson CI in brief
Hudson is an open-source continuous integration server that automates builds, tests and delivery steps after changes enter a codebase. It is written in Java and is known for its web interface, job configuration and plugin-based integration model. The name Hudson is also associated with the project that preceded Jenkins.
Builds and releases
Hudson helps teams detect integration problems early and create repeatable release workflows. A typical setup checks out source code, runs compilation and tests, publishes reports, and stores build artifacts for later promotion. It can support scheduled jobs as well as builds triggered by source-control events.
- Configure build and test jobs
- Connect source-control repositories
- Publish test results and artifacts
- Define notifications and release steps
Tooling around Hudson
Strong work with Hudson includes Java build systems such as Maven and Ant, test frameworks such as JUnit, and repository tools used by the wider delivery chain. Specialists also work with Hudson plugins, credentials, webhooks, shell scripts and artifact repositories. Knowledge of Linux, networking and application servers helps when jobs run outside a developer workstation.
When companies need specialists
Companies often bring in freelance Hudson expertise when an older continuous integration estate needs stabilising, documenting or connected to current delivery practices. This is especially relevant for organisations in Germany with established Java applications, regulated release processes or mixed on-site and remote teams. A specialist can assess fragile jobs, reduce manual handovers and plan a careful transition where appropriate.
- Repair unreliable or opaque pipelines
- Migrate build logic into maintainable jobs
- Integrate testing, reporting and artifacts
- Document operational ownership
Hudson compared with Jenkins
Hudson is commonly evaluated against Jenkins, its better-known fork, as well as other continuous integration tools. The choice depends on plugin requirements, maintenance expectations, existing job definitions and the team’s preferred delivery ecosystem. A professional should explain whether keeping Hudson is sensible, whether migration is safer, or whether another tool better fits the environment.
What strong experts deliver
A capable Hudson professional looks beyond a green build. They create reproducible jobs, isolate credentials, handle failed tests clearly and make logs useful for diagnosis. They understand the application and release process behind each pipeline, communicate trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders, and leave maintainable documentation for the team taking over the system.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Hudson, in one place.
Hudson is used for continuous integration: it checks out source code, runs builds and automated tests, creates reports, and can publish artifacts. Teams use it to make integration work visible and repeatable.
Hudson and Jenkins share a common origin, but they developed as separate projects after the fork. Jenkins generally has the broader modern ecosystem, while Hudson may remain important where existing jobs, plugins or operational knowledge are already tied to it.
A strong Hudson specialist usually works comfortably with Java, Maven or Ant, JUnit, source-control systems and artifact repositories. Linux administration, shell scripting, webhooks, credentials management and release coordination are also valuable.
The required depth depends on the work. A simple job adjustment may need focused configuration knowledge, while stabilising a large Hudson estate calls for experience with build failures, plugins, security, integrations and migration decisions.
Yes, much of a Hudson engagement can be done remotely through secured access, shared logs and documented release procedures. On-site collaboration can still help when the server environment, network controls or handovers require close coordination in Germany.
A company may retain Hudson when its jobs are stable, dependencies are understood and migration would create unnecessary delivery risk. Migration becomes more attractive when maintenance is difficult, required integrations are unavailable, or the current setup blocks modern release practices.
Ask how the specialist approaches failed builds, plugin dependencies, secrets, test reporting and rollback. A quality Hudson professional can show clear diagnosis methods, explain trade-offs and produce documentation that another team can operate.
Hudson work often involves inherited pipelines rather than greenfield systems. Freelancers should be ready to read existing job definitions, understand Java build conventions, check plugin compatibility and advise honestly on maintenance, modernisation or migration.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Hudson in their recent projects is 97 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 775 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Hudson in their recent projects, 91% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 45% hold at least a Master's degree, and 9% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Hudson in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Hudson in their recent projects are German (100%), English (94%), and French (19%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Hudson in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Banking and Finance (81%), and Healthcare (44%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Hudson in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (94%), and Quality Assurance (69%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Hudson
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