IBM Cloud Experts in Germany
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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
Martin Bausewein
Last position:
IT Architect at NDA Defense Industry
- Assessment of a modernization concept for IT infrastructures including client workstations
- Development of an alternative concept focusing on data sovereignty and reducing provider dependencies
- Selection of suitable alternative open-source products and solutions
- Design of a proof of concept approach for incremental evaluation of the options
Dany-Armand Djeudeu-Deudjui
Last position:
Senior Data Scientist at ibg NDT GmbH
- Investigate the relationship between Eddy Current Testing (ECT) signals and microstructural properties
- Detect latent patterns in ECT data that reflect intrinsic material characteristics
- Develop and validate predictive models for microstructural classification and quantification, using hardness and case depth as benchmarks
- Apply Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling for advanced data analysis
Norbert Gunia
Last position:
Support for implementing the Pimcore CMS as well as support assistance and partner management at Akademisch Arbeitsgemeinschaft GmbH
- Support for implementing the Pimcore CMS, support assistance, and partner management for the existing application landscape.
- Know-how transfer to the existing application landscape.
- Advising stakeholders on the new implementation.
- Support in data modeling for Pimcore.
- Designing and overseeing data migrations from Salesforce to Pimcore using ESB.
- Creating user stories.
- 3rd level support for business-critical processes.
- Technologies: Salesforce Marketing, Sales, and Service Cloud; Talend ESB; Pimcore; Shopware; ERP system Move; DB2; MySQL; MS Office; MS Visio; Jira; Confluence.
Svyetoslav Pidgornyy
Last position:
CTO at Skar Audio
- Main developer in an online retail company
- Built an online shop using the Next.JS React framework
- Integrated the site with dozens of third-party apps using REST and GraphQL APIs
- Built a backend for order management, warehouse management (with iPhone app), and supply management
- Automated invoicing and finances with QuickBooks
Basem Elasioty
Last position:
Head of Cloud & AI at VxLabs GmbH
- Led cloud and data engineering organization, defining architecture strategy for next-generation data platforms
- Designed and delivered an automotive fleet data management system including scalable ingestion pipelines, signal catalog management, and campaign processing workflows
- Built cloud-native microservices and streaming architectures supporting real-time vehicle data and AI-powered threat detection
- Established engineering standards for data quality, security, lineage, and governance in alignment with ISO/SAE 21434 and GDPR
- Managed engineering teams across data, backend, cloud, and AI functions, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality, production-ready solutions
Gunnar Wulf
Last position:
IT-Consultant at Independent Freelancer
- Enterprise and IT strategy
- Digital transformation
- Process and portfolio management
- Interim IT management
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
Esmail Saberi
Last position:
Senior Load and Performance Tester at Deutsche Bahn (DB-Netz)
- Design, development, and execution of load and performance tests for the PRISMA project
- Use of Apache Jmeter, Gatling, Apache ActiveMQ, Jms/Tibco Ems, SikuliX, Jython, Amazon AWS, PAN-Client
- Methods: load tests, test automation
Daniel Agreiter
Last position:
Business Analyst – Freelance at A1 Telekom Austria
- Business analysis and process optimization, including specifying business requirements and technical design
- Interface analysis (REST API, SOAP) and process optimization
- Process optimization with RPA, Power Automate, Microsoft Fabric, Power Automate Cloud, and Power BI
- Development of Power Apps for a point-of-sale platform using Power Automate and MS Fabric/Power BI to replace various tools
- Automation and replacement of manual maintenance of Excel spreadsheets and manual processes
Sven Hasselbach
Last position:
Contract Management Workflow Application
- Architecture, review, consultation and development of a contract management workflow application
- Development of a JSF-based platform (XPages) for coordinating new products from partners' initial ideas to contract execution with clients
- Generation of contract documents based on the agreements reached
- Implementation of workflows with approval processes
- Use of Lotus Notes, Java, JSF, XPages, JavaScript, REST, Apache POI, PDF Box, Bootstrap, Selenium, JUnit and Swagger
- Development on Windows and Linux platforms
Rashid Ibragimov
Last position:
Java Developer at IT company
- Data transformations
- IT company with more than 100 employees
- Software production
- Data augmentation and normalization, image transformation, format conversion, merging data from multiple sources
- Toolset: Java, Helm, Kubernetes, Kafka, OpenCV, IntelliJ IDEA, Gradle, Git, Docker, Containers, Scrum
Janusz Mazurek
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))
Mirco Marahrens
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at Vattenfall
- Lead of the platform engineering team for the development of a platform for energy trading, focusing on high availability, low latency, and scalability of libraries and services
- Supporting quants and market access solutions for energy trading, including market access integration and deployment of algorithmic trading strategies
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Statistics of experts using IBM Cloud
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years
Position duration
1.7 years
Positions per freelancer
20
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Automotive, Insurance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
100%
Doctorate
27%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
93%
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 IBM Cloud
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
IBM Cloud in practice
IBM Cloud is used for enterprise workloads that need secure infrastructure, managed services, and hybrid cloud control. Companies bring in specialists to run applications, connect systems, and keep workloads stable across public cloud and private environments.
What experts deliver
- Cloud setup and account structure
- Kubernetes and container platforms
- Integration with data, APIs, and identity
- Migration from on-prem systems
- Operations, monitoring, and cleanup
These tasks often involve IBM Cloud Pak services, Red Hat OpenShift, VPC networking, and managed databases. Strong professionals know how to translate business needs into a setup that is secure, maintainable, and easy to hand over.
When companies bring in help
Firms usually search for freelance expertise when a migration is delayed, an existing setup is hard to maintain, or a new service needs to launch quickly. In Germany, this often comes up in regulated industries, manufacturing, insurance, and software teams that already run mixed environments.
Skills that matter
A strong specialist understands IAM, networking, observability, automation, and cloud-native delivery. The best experts can work across Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and service integration without turning every task into a rebuild.
Common work streams
IBM Cloud specialists are often asked to:
- Plan hybrid cloud landing zones
- Move workloads to IBM Cloud
- Secure access and workloads
- Set up resilient runtime environments
- Support platform handover
This work is concrete and delivery focused. It is about keeping systems usable, traceable, and ready for the next change.
What good looks like
Good IBM Cloud professionals explain trade-offs clearly and document their decisions. They know when to use managed services, when to automate, and when to keep something simple. That matters when teams need reliable work from someone who can join fast and leave a clean setup behind.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about IBM Cloud? Start with the answers below.
IBM Cloud is used for enterprise hosting, hybrid cloud setups, Kubernetes-based platforms, and managed services that need tighter control than a basic public cloud setup. Companies also use it for integration, security, and modernising older systems without moving everything at once.
IBM Cloud is often chosen when a company wants hybrid cloud control, strong enterprise integration, or alignment with an existing IBM and Red Hat stack. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are broader in some areas, but IBM Cloud can be the better fit for specific enterprise workloads and migration paths.
A strong IBM Cloud specialist usually also knows Kubernetes, OpenShift, networking, IAM, automation, and CI/CD. Terraform, observability tools, and API integration are also common because many projects depend on them.
For a small setup, a freelancer with solid IBM Cloud delivery experience may be enough. For migrations, security reviews, or hybrid platforms, companies usually need someone who has handled similar systems before and can make clear design choices.
Most IBM Cloud work can be done remotely, especially architecture, automation, and migration planning. On-site time in Germany is more likely when teams need workshops, access reviews, or close coordination with internal operations and security groups.
Ask which parts of IBM Cloud they have actually delivered, what environments they worked in, and how they handled security, networking, and handover. It also helps to ask for examples of migrations, OpenShift work, or managed service setups that are close to your case.
Look for clear explanations, practical choices, and clean documentation. A strong IBM Cloud professional can describe why they used a service, how they reduced risk, and how they would support the setup after launch.
IBM Cloud is the cloud environment and service layer, while IBM Cloud Pak refers to software packages that run on container platforms such as OpenShift. Many projects use both together, so a good freelancer should understand where the platform ends and the application stack begins.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Cloud in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 828 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Cloud in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 100% hold at least a Master's degree, and 27% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Cloud in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Cloud in their recent projects are German (100%), English (93%), and French (29%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Cloud in their recent projects are Information Technology (86%), Automotive (64%), and Insurance (64%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Cloud in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (71%), and Operations (64%).
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