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Shahram Djafari

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IT Project Manager, Data Analyst & Consultant

Hamburg
Shahram Djafari

Last position:

IT Project Manager & Consultant (Concept and implementation of EU regulations) at Witt Group / Otto Group

  • Planning, steering, and monitoring the Corporate Responsibility Tech Enablement project for IT
  • Concept and implementation of the EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation)
  • Concept and implementation of the Eco-Design Regulation
  • Continued support of projects within the Corporate Responsibility strategy
  • Definition and review of guidelines (e.g. governance, success metrics) and, if needed, analysis of issues and their solutions
  • Overall project management, marketing, communication, and quality assurance for the projects
  • Creation of the project plan including timeline/roadmap, budget, and resources
  • Ensuring compliance with budget and deadlines
  • Defining guidelines for project control, methods, and priorities
  • Planning and tracking resources and effort, also together with other IT teams
  • Evaluation of projects and preparation of results (reporting to management)
  • Identification and reduction of risks
  • Regular communication with stakeholders
  • Steering internal and external stakeholders and service providers (Jira, Confluence, backlog management, task tracking, SharePoint, MS 365 platform etc.)
  • Development of standards and process automation

Label: Azure Cloud, Jira, Confluence, Power BI, SAP BW, AWS, Miro, Bee360, Draw.io, SharePoint, MS 365 platform, Trello etc.

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Walid Haidari

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Senior Tester within the IT & Digital Roadmap

Hamburg
Walid Haidari

Last position:

Senior Tester within the IT & Digital Roadmap at VTG-Aktiengesellschaft

  • Consulting, planning, and adapting (extension and rebuild) of the existing test framework to cover necessary test cases as part of quality assurance for initiative implementations
  • Executing cross-team manual test cases during regular sprint cycles
  • Setting up test automation
  • Advising front-end and back-end development on quality assurance aspects
  • Building a framework for end-to-end test cases
  • Performing software quality assurance across various projects within a program
  • Supporting the creation of test cases
  • Coordinating within the team with all relevant stakeholders
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Christian Hartmann

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Lead Developer / AI Engineer

Hamburg
Christian Hartmann

Last position:

Software Developer / Lead Developer at dpa (Deutsche Presse Agentur GmbH)

  • Contributed to the development of the Rubix editorial system
  • Implemented various microservices based on Java, AWS S3, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, and Spring Boot, deployed to AWS ECS and AWS Fargate
  • Designed and developed AWS Lambdas using TypeScript
  • Used PostgreSQL in an AWS RDS Aurora cluster and AWS DynamoDB
  • Implemented continuous deployment with GitLab pipelines
  • Built an Infrastructure as Code environment with AWS CDK
  • Set up and maintained a monitoring platform using AWS CloudWatch
  • Developed various frontend components with Vue.js
  • Designed the microservice architecture applying Domain Driven Design and GraphQL interfaces
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Taher Solimany

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DevOps Engineer

Hamburg
Taher Solimany

Last position:

DevOps Engineer at Confidential

  • Collaborating with developers, security, and operations teams to align requirements
  • Supporting product owners and development teams in deploying logging and monitoring solutions based on the Elastic Stack
  • Developing and standardizing log schemas as well as defining practical standards for observability
  • Designing and further developing logging architectures for complex, distributed multi-tenant environments
  • Connecting application and infrastructure logs as well as security tools and metrics
  • Optimizing data flows and modeling for analysis and reporting purposes
  • Building automated infrastructures using Terraform/Terragrunt and Ansible
  • Maintaining and evolving CI/CD pipelines in GitLab as well as automated development environments in Hetzner Robot
  • Operating and automating Proxmox clusters including Ceph storage
  • Setting up and running Kubernetes (k3s) clusters on Fedora CoreOS including core services like Vault, OpenLDAP, and HAProxy
  • Implementing security-critical infrastructures according to BSI basic protection and securing existing systems
  • Supporting the operation of solutions in cloud environments (e.g., AWS)
  • Working in agile teams following Scrum and Kanban
  • Technologies/Tools: Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats/Elastic Agent, Kibana), Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, Proxmox, Proxmox Ceph, Kubernetes (k3s), OpenShift, Helm, Kustomize, Vault, OpenLDAP, HAProxy, Hetzner Robot systems, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Syslog Linux/Windows, Docker, NGINX, Apache Security & Compliance (BSI basic protection, SIEM/SOC)

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Statistics of experts using Kibana

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

23 years (Germany: 18 years)

Position duration

1.8 years (Germany: 2.1 years)

Positions per freelancer

21 (Germany: 13)

Top business areas

Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Business Intelligence

Top industries

Information Technology, Retail, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Business Intelligence

Bachelor's degree or higher

100% (Germany: 96%)

Master's degree or higher

25% (Germany: 59%)

Certifications per freelancer

4 (Germany: 3)

Most common languages

German, English, Persian

Speak two or more languages

83% (Germany: 97%)

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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Average rates of experts in Hamburg using Kibana

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 695 €
Germany avg. 787 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 708 €
Germany median 800 €

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 basics

Kibana is the visual layer of the Elastic Stack. It turns Elasticsearch data into dashboards, charts, searches, and alerts that teams can use every day. Companies bring in specialists when they need clear views of logs, application behavior, or operational data.

What it supports

  • Dashboards for operations and business teams
  • Log analysis and troubleshooting
  • Observability views for metrics and traces
  • Search exploration for large data sets
  • Alerting and reporting for shared use

Skills that matter

Strong Kibana professionals know how data is indexed in Elasticsearch and how queries affect what users see. They work with visualizations, saved objects, spaces, roles, and access control. They also understand how to model data so dashboards stay useful and fast.

When to hire

Teams usually look for freelance support when dashboards become hard to maintain, searches return confusing results, or existing views do not fit the business question. In Hamburg, this often comes up in logistics, trade, media, and technical operations where teams need clear monitoring and reporting. Remote collaboration works well, but on-site time can help when data sources, stakeholders, and release owners need to align quickly.

Ecosystem fit

Kibana rarely stands alone. It is often used with Elasticsearch, Beats, Logstash, Elastic Agent, and security or observability features in the Elastic Stack. Good specialists know how these pieces connect, and how to choose the right mix for search, monitoring, or security use cases.

What good work looks like

A strong expert starts with the data model, not the dashboard. They build clear visualizations, keep filters consistent, and make sure saved views are easy to reuse. They also document choices so teams can extend the setup without breaking the structure.

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Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to the questions that come up most around Kibana.

Kibana is used to explore Elasticsearch data through dashboards, searches, and alerts. Companies use it to monitor systems, review logs, and share operational views with non-technical teams. It is also common for security monitoring and service observability.

Kibana is closest to the Elastic Stack and works best when the data already lives in Elasticsearch. Grafana is often chosen for mixed data sources and metric-heavy setups, while Kibana is stronger for search-driven analysis, log review, and Elastic-native workflows. The right choice depends on the data source and the way teams ask questions.

A strong Kibana specialist usually knows Elasticsearch query logic, data mapping, and basic index design. Helpful adjacent skills include Logstash, Elastic Agent, Beats, and access control setup. For observability work, knowledge of logs, metrics, and traces is important too.

The right level depends on the scope, but Kibana work needs more than simple chart building once dashboards must support real decisions. Projects often need someone who can clean up data structure, design reusable views, and avoid slow or misleading queries. For security or multi-team setups, deeper Elastic Stack knowledge matters.

Yes, most Kibana work can be done remotely because the core tasks are dashboard design, query tuning, and review of indexed data. On-site sessions in Hamburg can help when teams need to agree on terminology, access rules, or reporting structure. A mixed setup often works well for discovery and handover.

Kibana is the interface used to search, visualize, and monitor data, while the Elastic Stack is the wider set of tools around Elasticsearch. In many projects, people say Kibana when they mean the full Elastic setup, so a specialist should understand both the UI and the data layer. That avoids gaps between what users see and what the cluster stores.

Look for clear dashboards, clean naming, and explanations that match the underlying data. A good Kibana expert can show how filters, saved searches, and visualizations work together instead of building isolated charts. They should also be able to explain trade-offs in query design and access control.

Often yes, because Kibana is widely used for both observability and security views. A specialist may build log dashboards, alerting views, or security investigations, depending on the project. The best fit is someone who has worked in the exact use case you need, not just with the tool in general.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects is 87 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 695 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 25% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects are German (100%), English (83%), and Persian (33%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Retail (83%), and Banking and Finance (67%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Kibana in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Quality Assurance (83%), and Business Intelligence (67%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Kibana

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

Berlin Hamburg Munich Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Dusseldorf Leipzig Dortmund Essen Bremen Dresden Hanover Nuremberg

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