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Martin Petermann
Last position:
Business Analyst and Test Manager at ProSiebenSat.1 Tech & Services GmbH
- Analysis of affected business processes taking numerous stakeholders into account
- Interface analysis, architecture and system design
- Communicating and coordinating various subprojects and interface partners
- Creating epics and user stories, maintaining the backlog, workshops and review presentations
- Support during implementation between business departments and development
- Test management including strategy and approach definition
- Test case definition, execution and approval
- Cross-team organization of integration and acceptance tests
- Support of test environments
- Technologies and tools: Java, Angular, Kubectl, REST, AWS SNS/SQS, Kafka, S4/HANA, Bruno
Tamás Eppel
Last position:
Senior Software Developer / Tech Lead at NDA (defense / OSINT)
- Designing the audit logging framework
- Implementing APIs for developers to integrate in their codebase
- Implementing ingestion pipeline, database query layer and UI for browsing the audit events
- Improving stability and reliability of the backend system
Srinivasu Kakaraparti
Last position:
Atruvia
Project: Tax Exemption Order Application
The client has an existing application for creating and maintaining tax exemption orders for end customers; design and implementation of a comparable application for internal employees.
- Design and implementation of microservices and the UI for the business area "tax exemption orders" using Domain Driven Design as well as Spring Boot and Angular.
- Implementation of reactive, non-reactive, and asynchronous APIs (Spring REST, WebFlux, GraphQL).
- Development of the Angular application, including state management using Signals, RxJS Observables, and subscriptions.
- Securing the API and the application using OAuth2, JWT, and OpenID Connect.
- Configuration and setup of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams and conducting code reviews.
Environment: Java, Spring Boot, Angular 18 & 19 (standalone, signals), RxJs, Bootstrap CSS, Vitesting, OpenShift, Istio, microservices, Kafka, Dynatrace, Jenkins, GitLab, Graylog, Sonar, Oauth2, OracleDB
Marcus Biel
Last position:
Java Cloud Expert at Unknown
- Modernized and modularized a legacy monolith to enable independent team workflows
- Migrated from Java 8 to Java 21 and from Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3.3
- Simplified Maven project structure, reducing build time from 15 minutes to 50 seconds
- Converting architecture to a hexagonal DDD architecture with end-to-end integration tests using RestAssured and JUnit 5
- Tools and technologies: Java 8-22, Spring Boot, Mockito, AssertJ, RestAssured, Hibernate, OracleDB, Flyway, REST, JSON, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Bitbucket, GitHub, SonarQube, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate
Alexander Schwartz
Last position:
Founder and Full-Stack Developer at TrumpPostAlert.com
- Feasibility study for quick implementation of requirements with AI-based development (vibe coding)
- Development of a single-page web app in Angular 20
- Development of a backend server application in Kotlin
- Integration with Google Cloud Platform (Firebase): authentication, Firestore NoSQL database, storage, Cloud Functions, hosting and Cloud Run
- Integration with a NEON PostgreSQL database
- Automated AI-based analysis of Donald Trump's posts on Truth Social and analysis of relevance for stock markets and geopolitical topics
- CI/CD via GitHub Actions using Docker and Google Cloud Run
- Technical environment: Angular 20 (Angular Material, RxJS), Kotlin 2.2.20, TypeScript 5.9.3, Spring Boot 3.5.6, Google Cloud Platform (Firebase, Cloud Run, Gemini, Vertex AI), ChatGPT Codex, Git, GitHub, SourceTree, IntelliJ WebStorm, IntelliJ IDEA
Siegfried-Thor Bolz
Last position:
AI Solutions Architect & Developer at E-Commerce
- Integrated LangChain middleware between AEM and SAP PIM system
- Developed a FastAPI interface for system communication
- Implemented vector embeddings for semantic product search
- Evaluated LLM models (Vertex AI/Gemini, LM Studio, Hugging Face, OpenAI) for product analysis
- Developed an AEM component to display product recommendations and integrated the recommendation API into the AEM authoring process
- Designed and implemented Pinecone vector database for product embeddings
- Optimized response times and caching strategies
- Evaluated Vertex AI Studio for LLM testing and prompt workflows
- Implemented secure API routing and access control for AI components via FastAPI and gateway validation
Hannah De Vries
Last position:
Fullstack Developer at DB Cargo
- Development of Blazor-Server applications for data management
- Focus on unifying design and user experience
- Mentoring junior developers
- Establishing and consulting for coding guidelines and best practices
- Technologies: .NET 9, Blazor Server, MudBlazor, HTML, CSS, MS SQL Server (T-SQL, Views, Trigger, Stored Procedures, Table-Valued Functions), Entity Framework, Visual Studio, Scrum, agile, git
Vitor Rodrigues
Last position:
Test Coordinator Automation at Pro4all
- Designed and built from scratch the automation framework using Playwright, Typescript, JavaScript, Gherkin, Cucumber, BDD, Maven, IntelliJ IDEA
- Defined, developed and maintained test plans, test scripts, reports and other QA documentation in Confluence
- Created and maintained test data with SQL Server Management Studio, Toad and Faker.js
- Performed web services and API testing using Swagger Open API, SoapUI, JSON, HTML and XML
- Executed functional, smoke, regression, black box, GUI, cross-browser, UAT and E2E testing using CrossBrowserTesting and Safari Web Inspector
- Integrated and maintained automated scripts within sprints following Kanban, CI/CD, GitHub, Docker, Azure Pipelines, Agile, Scrum, Kafka and Kibana
- Raised and managed defects in Azure DevOps
- Conducted mobile testing with Robot Framework and Appium
Bharath Vishwanath
Last position:
Senior Consultant at Syskoplan Reply
- Backend development of B2B e-commerce solution using SAP Commerce Cloud, leveraging Java and Spring Framework with creation of REST APIs for effective communication.
- Resolved software defects, developed automated cron jobs and triggers, and authored unit tests with JUnit to uphold code stability and quality standards.
- Utilized Git-based version control systems (Bitbucket/GitHub) for source code management and used Jenkins to support continuous integration and development (CI/CD).
- Executed and closed multiple user stories and tickets across iterative bi-weekly sprints under Agile (SCRUM) methodology.
- Led incident resolution in the production environment and minimized downtime through real-time monitoring (Solr, SAP CCv2, OpenSearch Dashboards) and sustaining SLA targets above 99%.
György Kelemen
Last position:
Senior Fullstack Developer at Rockstardevelopers GmbH
- Development of a test system
- Establishment of the architecture using Scala/Java for the backend and Swing for the frontend
- Setup of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins for continuous integration, including automated builds
- Participation in the Scrum team, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
- Technology environment: Scala, Swing, EJB, JPA, Scrum, PostgreSQL, Mercurial
Mani Yazdi
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.
Syamala Himabindu
Last position:
Fullstack Developer at BLG Logistics Group
As part of developing this project, various apps were developed for an IBM portal environment based on portlets and Spring Boot services, as well as the setup of a BI platform based on QlikView
Full-stack development of applications, technical analysis, refinement of requirements with the business department, coordination with the customer, DevOps
Team size: 8 people
Technology: Java 11.0, Maven, Git, Spring, Hibernate, JUNIT, Mockito, React, Jira, SQL, Spring Boot, CD/CI Jenkins, Kanban, Rest Api, Oracle
Environment: Eclipse, IBM Rational Application Developer
Stephan Sahm
Last position:
Senior Data/ML Consultant & Technical Lead at Jolin.io
Role: Software Engineer & Applied Mathematician (Mathematical optimization for scheduling; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: JuMP, Julia, Pluto, Svelte, JavaScript, TypeScript, JetBrains Space, Terraform, Nomad)
Role: Software & Cloud & Web Engineer (Building scalable data science compute cluster from scratch; duration: 11 months; team setting: Team of 1, on-site; technologies: Terraform, Kubernetes, k8s ingress, k8s services, k8s RBAC, k8s networking, k3s, etcd, S3, DNS, certificates, Julia, Pluto, JavaScript, Tailwind, Astro, npm, Parcel, Preact, MUI, JWT, AWS SQS, AWS RDS, Python, GitLab, GitHub)
Role: AI & Web Engineer (Custom ChatGPT service; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: Python, Poetry, LangChain, Tailwind, ChatGPT API, Flask, FastAPI)
Role: Architect & Data Engineer (Central datalake setup and ingestion; duration: 9 months; team setting: Team of 5, remote; technologies: Infrastructure-as-code, AWS CDK, Python, Boto3, PySpark, AWS Glue, IAM, S3, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, Apache Hudi, DeltaLake, Databricks, GitHub, Jira, Miro)
Role: Software Engineer (PoC Julia migration of scikit-decide; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: Python, Julia, GitHub)
Maziyar Khorrami
Last position:
Data Engineer at MSD Germany
- Lead Architect to design and implement the data lake and ETL Pipeline using AWS Stack
- Performance Optimization of Data Ingestion of ETL Pipeline
- Development of Data Validation using Great Expectations
- Leading of the data migration for two sources exchanges
- Data Modeling in AWS Redshift
MLOps
- Model inference implementation by mlflow and AWS SageMaker
- Feature Engineering for the running ML Models ( Recommender Engineer, Clustering )
- Implementatino of Model Registry and artifactory using mlflow
- Historization an Profiling of the Input Data Using AWS Glue Crawler and AWS Data Catalog
- Feature importance using mlflow
Tech. Stack: Python 3, AWS Glue, AWS Step Fucntion, AWS Lambda, AWS EventBridge, AWS IAM Role, AWS SageMaker, AWS EC2, AWS Glue Crawler, AWS CloudWatch, MLFlow, ETL, Data lake, GitHub Action, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible playbooks (Infrastructure as Code), CI/CD, GitLab, SQL, PySparkSCRUM, Agile, Jira, BigData, VSCode, DBeaver, MSSQL, MySQL, grafana, Docker, Linux, Bash, MapReduce, Data Modeling (ORM), Pandas, YAML, SQL-Alchemy
Christian Stellwag
Last position:
Senior Java Developer at Freelance
- Numerous projects as a Senior Java Developer or Team Lead in the technical domain, banking sector, public sector, etc. Please ask for a detailed project list. My contact: office(at)stellwag.it
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Statistics of experts using IntelliJ IDEA
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years (Germany: 19 years)
Position duration
1.9 years (Germany: 2 years)
Positions per freelancer
16 (Germany: 14)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 92%)
Master's degree or higher
85% (Germany: 53%)
Doctorate
10% (Germany: 8%)
Certifications per freelancer
1 (Germany: 2)
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
96%
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 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 IntelliJ IDEA
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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
IDE basics
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java-focused IDE from JetBrains. It is also widely searched as IntelliJ or JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA. Teams use it to write, test, debug, and review code with less context switching.
What specialists deliver
- Java and Kotlin application work
- Spring and Maven or Gradle project setup
- Refactoring, inspections, and code cleanup
- Debugging, test support, and build troubleshooting
- Plugin-aware workflows and team standards
Tooling and workflow
Strong professionals know the editor, run configurations, VCS tools, and the terminal inside IntelliJ IDEA. They use code analysis, navigation, templates, and debugger features to keep delivery steady. They also adapt the setup to the team’s conventions instead of forcing a personal style.
When companies bring in help
Companies usually look for freelance expertise when a codebase is hard to navigate, build scripts are messy, or a migration needs careful refactoring. In Munich, this often matters for product teams that work in English but still need clear collaboration with local specialists. It also helps when teams want remote support without changing their daily IDE.
What good experts do well
A strong IntelliJ IDEA specialist works fast without losing structure. They understand project models, plugins, version control, inspections, and debugging, and they can explain why a change helps. They leave the team with cleaner code, better navigation, and a setup others can maintain.
Common search terms
People often search for IntelliJ IDEA, IntelliJ, or JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA when they need help. Some older users still say the IntelliJ platform or simply the IDE. No matter the wording, the need is the same: practical support for real code, real builds, and real delivery.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about IntelliJ IDEA, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
IntelliJ IDEA is used to build and maintain Java and Kotlin codebases, especially when teams want strong navigation, inspections, and debugging. It is common in Spring applications, service layers, test work, and refactoring-heavy projects. Many specialists also use it for Maven, Gradle, Git, and database-related tasks.
IntelliJ IDEA is usually chosen when teams want a deeper Java and Kotlin workflow out of the box. Eclipse can work well for some setups, but IntelliJ IDEA often feels stronger for code analysis, refactoring, and project navigation. VS Code is lighter, but it usually needs more extensions to cover the same development depth.
A strong IntelliJ IDEA specialist should also know Java or Kotlin, build tools like Maven or Gradle, and Git-based workflows. Spring, testing frameworks, and debugging skills matter as well. For many projects, clean refactoring habits are just as important as knowing the menus and shortcuts.
Bring in IntelliJ IDEA expertise when a codebase is difficult to work with, team standards are unclear, or developers lose time on setup and troubleshooting. Freelancers can also help during migrations, code cleanups, and review of complex project structures. That support is useful when the team needs a short, focused intervention rather than long-term hiring.
It depends on the scope, but IntelliJ IDEA work needs more than basic editing skills once the project includes refactoring, build issues, or advanced debugging. Simple setup support can be handled by a general Java specialist with solid IDE habits. Larger or riskier changes are better handled by someone who knows the tool deeply.
IntelliJ IDEA work is often done remotely because most tasks involve code, builds, and configuration that can be reviewed from anywhere. On-site collaboration can still help when teams want hands-on pairing, shared conventions, or fast alignment with local stakeholders. In Munich, many companies mix both depending on the phase of the project.
Look for someone who explains choices clearly, keeps the project structure tidy, and uses IntelliJ IDEA to solve the real problem instead of just moving files around. Good specialists leave behind readable code, sensible run configurations, and fewer manual steps. They should also be comfortable with tests, debugging, and version control.
Freelancers should expect IntelliJ IDEA assignments to involve team standards, build tooling, and a lot of context around the codebase. They should be ready to work with Java, Kotlin, Spring, Git, and the team’s branching and review process. Clear communication matters because the IDE is only one part of the delivery flow.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects is 92 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 739 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 85% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects are German (96%), English (92%), and French (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (79%), and Automotive (63%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IntelliJ IDEA in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (96%), and Quality Assurance (71%).
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