Kong Experts in Germany
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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.
Kiriakos K.
Last position:
Tech Lead / Architect : OTTO API Platform at OTTO
Maturing their API practices on both a business and technology level. My role covers strategy, architecture, developer advocacy as well as hands-on software engineering, enabling both technical teams and business leadership to adopt and act on API-centric principles effectively. Coincidentally, we also establish GitOps, DX and platform best practices with this project.
Highlights:
- Aligning executives with the initiative by clarifying strategy, replacing misconceptions and myths with facts, clarifying the value of existing assets and enabling informed decision-making
- Formulating a way forward for API Lifecycle Management at OTTO
- Driving platform progress and fostering developer engagement by hands-on engineering work towards strategic goals
API Lifecycle Management, Team Topologies, Organizational Evolution, Regulatory, Platform Advocate, Developer Platform, Communities of Practice, Terraform, Kotlin, Kafka, Kong, WSO2, Apigee, Gravitee, Backstage, AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, API Design, AWS, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Redocly, reactive programming, CDC, Golang, Gin, GitOps, DX (developer experience), stakeholder management, roadmaps, workshops, discovery.
Nasif M.
Last position:
Solution Architect at SAP
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Scope:
- Operation and configuration of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, including network, storage, and security design.
- Implementation of centralized observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, alerting).
- Development of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and automation frameworks.
- Training and enablement of operations and development teams.
Result: Accelerated service delivery, transparent operational metrics, and sustainable knowledge transfer.
Salim C.
Last position:
Cloud / Systems Architect
- Development and introduction of operations processes
- Preparation of complete documentation packages (including incident management and operations support) to meet compliance requirements
- Introduction of a workshop on IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Technical consulting for the project security concept (ISMS)
- Installation and operation of Kubernetes clusters on AWS, on-prem, and Azure
- Hybrid cloud architecture design (on-prem, Hetzner, AWS)
- Analysis and troubleshooting of incidents and system outages
- Network adjustments for firewall rules, gateways, OpenVPN settings, and IPsec tunnels (pfSense)
- Technical consulting on Bitbucket, Jenkins, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Consulting on Ansible deployments and infrastructure automation
- Consulting on building a scalable system in the cloud (AWS / Azure)
- Technologies / Tools: Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Azure, VPN, pfSense, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Kubernetes, GitLab Runner, ISMS, Golang, Prometheus, Grafana, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, Cognito, OIDC, Harbor, MinIO, Postgres, Redis, Keycloak, Ceph, Proxmox, CloudFormation, PostgreSQL, Flux CD, Hetzner, IONOS, Sonatype Nexus Repository, Entra ID, Dex IdP, Pulumi
Ronald M.
Last position:
DevOps Consultant at M.it services & systems GmbH
- Adaptation, optimization, configuration, and administration of a multi-stage GitLab instance with over 250 users
- Setup, adaptation, expansion, and optimization of infrastructure, configuration, and monitoring
- Provisioning of services and handover to production
- System environment: DependencyTrack, GitLab, Grafana, Hedgedoc, Kubernetes, Oauth2 Proxy, Openstack, Prometheus, Syseleven
Bastian I.
Last position:
Senior Backend Engineer Go & Technical Consultant at Regulated trading system for digital assets
- Technical consulting to meet regulatory MiCA requirements for a digital trading platform
- Design and development of backend components and APIs to comply with transparency and auditability requirements
- Optimization of core functions in order execution and market data delivery with a focus on performance and reliability under high load
- Conducting job interviews and structured onboarding of new developers
- Successful and timely implementation of the regulatory MiCA requirements, ensuring uninterrupted operations
- Reduction of user issues and common support requests by fixing complex backend problems
- Strengthening the development team through effective onboarding, mentoring, and knowledge sharing
Tino T.
Last position:
Director Technology at Forte Digital Germany
- Leading 20+ staff in development, site reliability engineering, and architecture.
- Leading the group-wide agentic AI initiative (Norway, Poland, Germany).
- Hands-on solution architect and AI consultant for over 50% of my working time on client projects in the publishing sector – from local publishers to international corporations.
- Strategic consulting and technical implementation of AI workflow platforms (n8n, Workato).
- Developing prototypes for traditional, AI-based, and agentic AI workflows.
Andreas N.
Last position:
Open Source Founder at Privatier
- AI-supported source code analysis
- AI image generation for a shirt shop
- AI-supported analysis of connected YouTube channels and commenting users
- AI-supported software prototyping
- Operation of a local AI environment
- 3D printing and scanning: development of a process to repair GfK parts using 3D-printed negative molds
The focus is on practical applications of new technologies, founding an open-source project for a yacht autopilot, as well as yacht refit and motorhome conversion.
Marcel M.
Last position:
Cloud-Architect, Senior Solution Architect, Senior Software-Engineer at Assignment of KPIs for the service landscape to record and analyse costs per user
- Technologies: GoLang, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Git
- Conception of AWS infrastructure and existing services
- Analysis of IAM accounts and roles
- Setup of Cost Explorer and CloudWatch monitoring
- Setup of DynamoDB and S3 persistence of collected information
- Reporting and cost calculation
- Conception of Terraform deployment
Sanju B.
Last position:
Portfolio for Content Management System (Flask, SQLAlchemy, Bootstrap)
- Created a CMS-driven portfolio app for showcasing projects with user authentication, CRUD operations, and Guest Mode.
- Designed and implemented full-stack architecture using Flask, SQLAlchemy, and Bootstrap 5.
- Integrated secure authentication and CSRF protection mechanisms.
- Deployed production-ready web app using Docker and Railway.
- Achieved full project cycle completion: design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation.
- Demonstrated Agile development principles and industry-standard software engineering practices.
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Statistics of experts using Kong
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
17 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
89%
Master's degree or higher
67%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
German, English, Greek
Speak two or more languages
100%
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 Kong
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.
Kong 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 (100%)
- Banking and Finance (60%)
- Professional Services (40%)
- Government and Administration (40%)
- Retail (40%)
- Automotive (30%)
- Media and Entertainment (30%)
- Pharmaceutical (30%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Kong does
Kong is an API gateway and connectivity platform built on NGINX and commonly used to control traffic between clients, services and external systems. Kong Gateway handles routing, authentication, rate limiting, observability and transformations at the edge of a distributed application. Kong Konnect adds a managed control plane for teams that want central governance across environments.
Gateway capabilities
Kong experts configure declarative and database-backed deployments, design routes and services, and manage consumers, credentials and plugins. They work with REST, GraphQL, gRPC and WebSocket traffic, selecting policies that protect APIs without slowing delivery. Strong implementations separate public access, internal service communication and administrative control.
- Configure Kong Gateway for development, staging and production
- Apply JWT, OAuth 2.0, key-auth or mutual TLS policies
- Add rate limiting, request transformation and access controls
- Expose API analytics, logs and health signals
Ecosystem and tooling
Kong is often deployed with Kubernetes through the Kong Ingress Controller or Gateway API resources. Specialists also use Helm, Docker, Terraform, decK, Kong Admin API and CI/CD pipelines to manage configuration consistently. They may integrate Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, cloud load balancers and identity providers such as Keycloak or Okta.
When companies need expertise
Companies bring in freelance Kong professionals when an API estate is growing faster than its governance model. Typical work includes replacing a legacy gateway, introducing a central API layer, moving from self-managed Kong Gateway to Kong Konnect, or standardising traffic policies across clusters. In Germany, projects often combine remote delivery with on-site workshops for security, operations and product teams.
- Migrate routes and policies from another gateway
- Establish reusable plugin and configuration standards
- Connect Kong to Kubernetes and enterprise identity systems
- Investigate latency, routing failures or authentication defects
What strong professionals deliver
A strong Kong specialist understands networking, HTTP, TLS, DNS and container operations as well as gateway configuration. They can explain trade-offs between plugins, custom Lua logic and upstream service changes, then document decisions clearly. They test failure paths, protect the control plane and make configuration reproducible rather than relying on manual edits.
Choosing the right specialist
Ask for evidence of comparable gateway migrations, Kubernetes operations and production incident work. Discuss the traffic model, authentication standards, deployment method and ownership of API specifications before the engagement begins. For teams in Germany, clarify remote and on-site collaboration, working language and how the specialist will coordinate with security and platform groups.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about Kong? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
Kong is used as an API gateway and service connectivity layer. It routes requests, applies authentication and traffic policies, transforms messages, and exposes operational data before requests reach backend services.
Kong builds on NGINX technology but adds an API-focused plugin model, service management and governance features. Traefik is often chosen for simpler cloud-native routing, while Apigee provides a broader managed API management suite; the right option depends on control, deployment model and policy depth.
A strong Kong professional usually understands Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, networking and TLS. Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Keycloak, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry is also valuable when the gateway sits in a wider platform environment.
The required background depends on the scope. A route and plugin configuration needs less depth than a migration across clusters, custom Lua plugins or a high-risk authentication redesign, so assess comparable production work rather than relying on a generic career label.
Yes, most Kong configuration, testing and documentation can be handled remotely through version control, secure environments and video workshops. On-site sessions can still help with architecture decisions, security reviews and coordination across German-speaking teams.
Kong Gateway can be self-managed where teams need direct control over infrastructure and lifecycle operations. Kong Konnect provides a managed control plane and can reduce operational work, but the choice depends on compliance needs, cloud strategy, team ownership and the desired separation between control and data planes.
Look for reproducible configuration, clear route ownership, least-privilege access and tested failure behaviour. A capable Kong professional can show how policies are versioned, how secrets are protected, how observability works and how changes are rolled back safely.
Clarify the gateway version, deployment model, traffic protocols, identity provider, upstream ownership and release process. A Kong specialist should also confirm access boundaries, incident responsibilities, documentation standards and whether the work covers Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect or both.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Kong in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 832 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Kong in their recent projects, 89% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 67% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Kong in their recent projects have 17 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 Kong in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Greek (10%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Kong in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (60%), and Professional Services (40%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Kong in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (80%), and Operations (70%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Kong
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 Request a free demo
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