Kibana Experts in Berlin
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Berlin, who have recently used Kibana
Benjamin Faas
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.
Nune Isabekyan
Last position:
Fractional CTO at OpsWorker
OpsWorker turns Kubernetes alerts into root-cause analyses, on top of the monitoring a team already runs. I lead the technical side: the agent architecture, the AWS infrastructure it runs on (fully inside EU regions), and the engineering decisions behind it, read-only in the cluster by default, human in the loop for judgment. The stack underneath: Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore, agents built with the Strands Agents SDK, the Claude and OpenAI APIs, and the Kubernetes API.
Ursula Raab
Last position:
Sabbatical with Training at Own Sabbatical
Chiemela Ogu
Last position:
AI Enthusiast – Independent Projects at Chiemela Ogu Consulting
Too Good To Throw (AI powered social impact webapp focused on reducing food waste in Nigeria):
Integrated Paystack Split Payments to automatically route payments between the platform and partner vendors.
Configured automated subaccount creation workflows so new businesses get a settlement account instantly.
Setup a scalable cloud backend using Supabase.
Implemented role-based access control (RBAC) for Users, Partners, and Admin.
FaithFlow (AI powered webapp supporting Christian teens on their spiritual journey):
Designed and implemented an AI-driven scripture search engine that interprets natural language questions and maps them to relevant Bible texts, commentary, devotionals, and cross-references.
Designed a spiritual growth dashboard enabling users to track reading progress, prayer streaks, and devotional completion milestones.
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
Sabaina Arshad
Last position:
Product Manager at Samwise GmbH
- Led stakeholder management, reported to the CPO, and partnered with engineering to ship CMS improvements, including user support, bug resolution, user interviews, market research, and competitor analysis.
- Drove Agile/Scrum ceremonies and roadmap planning, contributing to product vision, discovery, and strategic decision-making; created feature documentation, collaborated with developers, and led CMS QA, functional testing, automated testing, and UAT.
- Owned roadmap and prioritization using funnel analysis and commercial impact assessments; executed hypothesis-driven experiment loops to improve conversion and CTR.
- Managed product development of the couponing CMS, supporting issue resolution and assisting users with shop, coupon, campaign, gift card, and affiliate network deeplink setup; integrated AI technologies.
- Created scalable processes, SOPs, and workflows to standardize CMS usage across markets, reducing support tickets; spearheaded the Autopilot project to fetch deals and coupons via automation and AI.
- Drove CX improvements across coupon and gift card features for Condé Nast (WIRED, CN Traveller, Glamour), LA Times, and GQ; achieved a 10% increase in clickout conversion rate, a 19% increase in CTR, and a 16% reduction in drop-off at the coupon copy step.
Domenik Jones
Last position:
Python Engineer and Cloud Migration Consultant at Unknown
- Supported the company's transition from an on-premise architecture to AWS cloud services, modernizing infrastructure and optimizing operational efficiency.
- Leveraged expertise in automation and software implementation to enhance scalability, reliability and profitability.
- Implemented Poetry and Ruff to streamline Python dependency management and code quality checks, improving development efficiency and reducing errors.
- Implemented an automated CI/CD strategy with GitHub Actions, which decreased deployment times and minimized manual intervention.
- Enforced deployment automation for Kubernetes, enhancing the scalability and reliability of applications across the organization.
- Evaluated and implemented Apache Airflow for workflow management, leading to more efficient scheduling and monitoring of data pipelines.
- Created data interfaces for energy traders, enabling them to optimize profit margins through improved data analysis and decision-making tools.
Christopher Mäuer
Last position:
Mobile & Full-Stack Engineer at Propstack GmbH
- Refactored the mobile app by reimplementing stores, models, API client, screens and components using Typescript
- Added performant on-device storage for stores as preparation for offline mode
- Integrated RNUILib to achieve a minimal and modern UI design quickly
- Implemented native packages to provide additional features such as displaying of caller IDs
- Planned feature development and UX improvements following initial refactoring and redesign
Sandeep Girase
Last position:
Software Engineer at ACL Digital
- Developed high-performance APIs for SDK backend on JavaEE Web, iOS, and Android, improving application performance and scalability by 30%.
- Led system design, tech stack planning, and development, ensuring 98% uptime with strong code quality and automated tests.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing release cycle time by 40%.
- Deployed cloud-native applications on AWS EC2 instances, ensuring 99% uptime and optimized performance.
- Delivered clean code with full unit, component, and integration test coverage, reducing defects by 25%.
- Collaborated across engineering, QA, and product teams to deliver secure, reliable solutions.
- Mentored team members, increased development efficiency by 20%, automated routine tasks, and contributed to hiring, growing team capacity by 15%.
Mohamed Rwash
Last position:
Software Engineer at Clark
- Led the implementation of a critical backend initiative for the offer teasing feature, resulting in a 10% increase in users actively seeking counter offers.
- Contributed to high-impact features such as instant advice, customer ratings, and automatic contract switching, leading to increased user engagement and conversion rates.
- Built a gRPC service to integrate internal systems with the ERP platform, improving the reliability and observability of data exchange.
- Refactored parts of the legacy Ruby codebase into a more maintainable and scalable Elixir-based architecture.
- Delivered a greenfield project from concept to production on a new stack, integrating with internal services and managing infrastructure setup and deployment.
- Collaborated closely with the front-end team, product managers, and cross-functional team members to ensure the seamless integration of backend features, fostering effective communication and collaboration across disciplines.
- Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, PostgreSQL, AWS, Cognito, Lambda, SNS, SQS, Terraform, Helm, Docker, CI/CD, Grafana, Prometheus, Git, Agile Methodology.
Frank Bohnsack
Last position:
Software Engineer at Freelancer
- Freelance software engineer focusing on backend (Python/Django) and frontend (VueJS).
Fares Mahmoud
Last position:
Software Engineer at DXC Technology
- Developed and maintained backend services for Q8's Digital Cards and Mobility Platform in Java and Spring Boot.
- Designed scalable, multi-tenant microservices with API-first principles using Swagger.
- Implemented asynchronous messaging with Apache ActiveMQ to decouple services and improve resilience.
- Managed multi-tenant architecture with data isolation and configurable tenant logic.
- Ensured secure data handling with Spring Security and PostgreSQL, supported by Liquibase version control.
- Integrated JasperReports for generating PDF reports based on user and business needs.
- Followed Agile practices and implemented thorough unit and integration testing.
Mario Ellebrecht
Last position:
Developer and Consultant at Freelancer
Michael Wetzl
Last position:
TUI AG / Robinson
- Developed an Internet Booking Engine (IBE) (Saber and Juniper) and other microservices
- Backend development with PHP and Symfony, endpoint and interface implementation
- Unit and integration tests
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Statistics of experts using Kibana
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years (Germany: 18 years)
Position duration
2.7 years (Germany: 2.1 years)
Positions per freelancer
10 (Germany: 13)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Automotive, Media and Entertainment
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
91% (Germany: 96%)
Master's degree or higher
55% (Germany: 59%)
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 97%)
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 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 Kibana
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
Kibana at a glance
Kibana is the visual layer of the Elastic Stack. Companies use it to search data, explore logs, and build dashboards that make system behavior easier to read. It is a common choice when teams need fast insight from Elasticsearch data.
What specialists deliver
- Log and event dashboards for operations and support
- Search views for troubleshooting and analysis
- Alerting and watch setup for key signals
- Visualizations for security, product, and business data
Core skills around it
Strong experts know Elasticsearch mappings, index patterns, queries, and visual design. They also understand how Kibana spaces, filters, Lens, and dashboard sharing work together. Good work is not just about charts; it is about making data usable.
When companies bring in freelancers
Teams often need outside help when dashboards are messy, searches are slow, or a new data source must be added cleanly. Freelancers also help during migrations from older ELK setups or when internal teams need support for a release, audit, or incident review in Berlin or remotely.
What good work looks like
A strong professional keeps visualizations simple, labels clear, and queries efficient. They test permissions, tune field usage, and make sure the same dashboard helps both technical and non-technical users. They document changes so the setup can be maintained.
Ecosystem and fit
Kibana usually sits next to Elasticsearch, Beats, Logstash, and Elastic Agent. It appears in observability, security monitoring, application logging, and search analytics. In many projects, especially in Berlin tech teams, the real task is aligning data flow, access, and dashboards into one working system.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Kibana? Start with the answers below.
Kibana is used to explore data stored in Elasticsearch through dashboards, charts, logs, and search views. Teams rely on it for observability, security monitoring, and operational reporting. It helps people understand what is happening in systems without digging through raw data.
Kibana is strongest when the data already lives in the Elastic Stack and you need deep search and log analysis. Grafana is often chosen for broader metric dashboards across many data sources. A freelancer should know when Kibana is the right fit and when another tool is better.
Kibana is one part of the Elastic Stack, not the whole stack. People also use the older term ELK for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. A good specialist understands how Kibana depends on clean indexing, query design, and data ingestion around it.
A strong Kibana expert usually knows Elasticsearch queries, mappings, index management, and data modeling. Useful extras include Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agent, and alerting setup. Security roles may also need access control and dashboard sharing knowledge.
For a small dashboard task, a focused Kibana specialist can help quickly. For multi-source observability, security use cases, or a migration, you want someone who has handled similar setups before. The key is real work with searches, fields, filters, and alerting, not just basic chart creation.
Yes. Kibana work is often done remotely because dashboards, queries, and alert rules can be reviewed over screens and shared access. In Berlin, some teams still prefer on-site workshops for discovery, but delivery is usually easy to run remotely.
Look for someone who asks about your data shape, users, and success criteria before building anything in Kibana. Good work is readable, fast, and maintainable, with clear names and stable queries. They should be able to explain trade-offs in filters, fields, and dashboard layout.
Kibana support is common for log analytics, incident investigation, monitoring dashboards, and search-based internal tools. It also comes up during Elastic Stack upgrades, new index rollouts, and security reporting work. If your team depends on Elasticsearch data, Kibana usually becomes part of the daily workflow.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects is 109 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 870 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects, 91% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 55% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects are English (100%), German (93%), and Spanish (21%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Automotive (50%), and Media and Entertainment (43%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Project Management (71%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Kibana
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