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Timo H.
Last position:
Software Developer at Smiths Detection
- Extension of a Swing-based UI for recording Security Restricted Articles during baggage screening.
- Introduction of a new workflow for recording Deboarding Events.
- Extension of the reporting system for Security Restricted Articles and Deboarding Events.
- Implementation using JBoss Wildfly, PostgreSQL, spring-boot 3.x, Java 8/21, Swing, JSF, JAX-RS/Resteasy, Docker, Maven, Kiro.
Max R.
Last position:
Senior AI Engineer and Technical Advisor (Freelancer) at dialpad
Serving as AI technical advisor to Dialpad's Telephony Engineering division while building AI products hands-on. Currently developing MCP-based tooling for AI text and voice agents: agent authoring, integrations and adoption of existing agents, shared authentication and API contracts, and durable workflow state. This includes text and voice tests that evaluate agent behavior, latency and task completion.
In parallel, helping Dialpad's engineers adopt QualityLayer and use Claude Code and Codex effectively. This ongoing work covers context management for large codebases, reusable plan-implement-test-review workflows connected to CI/CD, playbooks, hands-on workshops, labs and pair programming.
Technologies: AI Agent Products (Text & Voice Agents, MCP, LLMs, Python, TypeScript), Agent Tooling (Authoring, Integrations, OAuth, Durable State), Quality & Evaluation (Text & Voice Tests, Evals, Regression, Traces), Agentic Engineering (Claude Code, Codex, QualityLayer, Hooks, Prompts), Context Engineering (RAG, Vector Stores, Codebase Embeddings), Software Delivery (CI/CD Integration, Agentic Loops, PR Automation), Enablement & Coaching (Workshops, Hands-On Labs, Pair Programming)
Fadi S.
Last position:
AI-Engineer at Recruitment Agency
- Design, development, and productive rollout of an Enterprise HR Copilot based on Microsoft Copilot Studio to automate internal HR processes
- Development of an AI-supported assistant for answering employee inquiries based on a SharePoint knowledge base and internal company HR documentation
- Integration of the Copilot into Microsoft Teams, including welcome logic, user guidance, and role-based routing
- Automation of HR processes and approval workflows with Microsoft Power Automate to reduce manual processing steps
- Development of realistic HR documents and response templates with Azure OpenAI, taking business requirements and consistent company policies into account
- Implementation of prompt strategies, knowledge management, and response optimization to improve response quality and user acceptance
- Close collaboration with business departments to analyze requirements and integrate the AI solution into existing company processes
Technologies:
Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Teams, Azure OpenAI, SharePoint, Power Automate, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Prompt Engineering, Workflow Automation
Patrick L.
Last position:
Senior GenAI Fullstack Developer at SBH (Schulbau Hamburg)
Remote freelance role focused on Agentic AI strategy, secure application patterns, and reusable agentic workflows for a government agency.
- Development and implementation of an open-source Agentic AI strategy for a government agency, with a focus on GDPR, security, and self-hosted solutions
- Development of reusable agentic workflows and business applications that enable non-technical employees to solve business problems independently
- Implementation of nine business applications with Single Sign-On (SSO) and Azure PostgreSQL integration on Hetzner Linux servers
Techstack: Python, Streamlit, Anthropic SDK (Claude), Azure, Linux, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Angular
Robert D.
Last position:
Software Architect at FinTech / Wealth Management
- Analysis of existing microservice structures and integration into the event-driven architecture
- Design and implementation of prototypes
- Introduction of structured workflows and integration into a solid testing strategy
- Team: Small specialized team (3-5 people) from analysis through implementation readiness
- Documentation of architectural decisions and definition of interfaces
- Integration of the event-driven pipeline into the existing landscape
- Technologies: Kafka, Docker, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Java, Liquibase
Frank J.
Last position:
Senior Project Manager / IT Manager - Email Gateway Migration & Information Security at Public Authority
- Strategic planning, detailed technical preparation and operational management of an email gateway migration in a security-critical government environment.
- Preparation of the technical specification and development of technical concepts and migration approaches in line with BSI requirements.
- Technical requirements management with business units, information security and operations.
- Coordination of external service providers, integrators and implementation partners; maintenance of project plans, milestones, resources, risks and dependencies.
- Regular reporting to project management, the program environment and internal stakeholders.
Gabin Maxime N.
Last position:
Multi-Agent R&D Pipeline (3 Custom Agents) at Independent Project
Claude Code subagents, MCP, Pydantic V2, pytest, bandit
Designed and shipped 3 specialized agents that hand work down a line: a research agent writes a cited implementation spec, a coding agent builds the modular code and its tests, a review agent ranks findings by severity and applies the fixes. Each handoff is a structured document, so no stage depends on another agent's context window.
Connected the research agent to an academic-research MCP server (Semantic Scholar, ArXiv, Hugging Face Hub, citation snowballing) so every reference traces to a tool result rather than the model. Gated commits behind ruff, mypy, pytest and bandit, required human sign-off before installs and commits, and persisted session state on disk so long runs survive a context reset.
Harold T.
Last position:
CPU Watcher — Cloud-Native Monitoring Application at SEUYTEL
- Planned and developed a CPU monitoring application for monitoring system performance and resource utilization.
- Designed and implemented a Spring Boot backend providing a REST API for processing and exposing monitoring data.
- Developed the React frontend for presenting monitoring information in a clear and user-friendly interface.
- Integrated PostgreSQL for persistent storage and management of application data.
- Containerized the application and its services using Docker Compose.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment using Terraform on AWS.
- Structured the application as a modern, maintainable system using REST-based communication between frontend and backend.
- Designed and developed a secure, scalable CPU monitoring architecture (cpu-watcher) with a dedicated collector application that streams monitoring data to the backend, reducing direct exposure of system resources.
- Designed a secure cloud infrastructure with the database isolated within a private network and OIDC-based authentication.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and integrated version-controlled CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, infrastructure changes, and application deployments.
- Designed and implemented the frontend delivery architecture using AWS CloudFront.
Stack: Spring Boot · React · PostgreSQL · REST API · Docker Compose · Terraform · AWS
Reza N.
Last position:
Senior IT-Security Expert at Teambank AG
- Completed the integration of log sources into Microsoft Sentinel, including GCP workloads – centralized consolidation of all security-relevant events from Azure and GCP environments for complete end-to-end telemetry and comprehensive compliance evidence
- Developed custom rules and use cases based on the GFG Use-Case Library and the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix to cover company-specific threats and GFG-relevant scenarios with precise, mapped detection rules
- Tuned detection rules to minimize false positives, optimized detection thresholds, and modeled exceptions – enabling the SOC to work with relevant, prioritized alerts while reducing Mean Time to Detect/Respond
- Built SOAR capabilities in Sentinel by developing playbooks to automate recurring response processes such as containment, user and host isolation, and ticketing – shorter response times and 24/7 scalability
- Designed and built a log transformation solution to normalize and enrich incoming raw logs (GeoIP, CMDB, threat intelligence) and convert them into a consistent schema for high-performance KQL queries, use case logic, and correlations
- Managed Azure security through Azure Policies to enforce security and compliance standards, prevent drift, and continuously remediate deviations
- Operated the Defender XDR portal to link endpoint, identity, email, and SaaS signals with Sentinel findings, enable holistic incident triage, and orchestrate measures directly from XDR
Technologies: Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Azure Policy, KQL, GCP, MITRE ATT&CK
Ornel Franck W.
Last position:
Sales Partner at ERGO PRO
- Industry: Insurance, Trade, IT
- Customers & Projects: Consulting and selling insurance and similar services
- Main tasks: Insurance consulting (health insurance, retirement planning, wealth building); commercial services, inside and field sales; sales data analysis and forecasting; customer consulting and support; opening a new sales headquarters for private and business customers; business development & innovation management; business use case development; process optimization; stakeholder management; team leadership and training; preparation and delivery of trainings;
- Technologies used: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Draw.IO, Camunda 8, Java (8, 17,21,25), Git, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Data REST, Spring Web, Spring Security, J-Unit, Playwright, Lombock, Vaadin, H2, PostgreSQL (16, 17 18), pgAdmin, Docker, LLMs, JasperSoft Studio, JasperReports
Michael S.
Last position:
Senior System Engineer at VCS Value Chain Solutions GmbH
Planning and updating the entire environment to Windows Server 2022 and 2025
- Hardening of DCs and servers, setup of event log forwarding
- Migration of all existing Windows 2019 servers (including Active Directory DCs, DNS and CA) to Windows Server 2022 and 2025
- Automation of security patches for the Hyper-V clusters via PowerShell (CAU)
- Network administration
- Continuous operation and support of the MS Hyper-V environments
Wolfgang O.
Last position:
Project Manager at EnBW - Netze Südwest
- New development and further development of the existing MS Dynamics CRM
IT systems: Microsoft Dynamics Customer Service, SharePoint, DevOps, SAP IS-U
- CRM implementation / further development
- Taking over from the previous service provider
- Business process analysis
- Agile project organization
- Business analysis / requirements engineering with AI support
- Use of AI in development
- Analysis of master data processes
- CRM customer data management
- Requirements documentation
- Stakeholder management
- Workshop moderation
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.
Peter S.
Last position:
Senior ML Engineer & AI Researcher at Anonymous Client
Project: Defect Generation on Test-Bench Images of Metal Surfaces Environment: Automated Visual Inspection (AVI), Metallurgy & Manufacturing
- Objective & Implementation: Designed, architected, and trained Generative Adversarial Networks (Pix2PixHD / SPADE) for image-to-image transformation. Targeted generation of synthetic material defects (e.g., cracks, inclusions, scale) on rough metal surfaces under real test-bench lighting conditions for privacy-compliant and efficient dataset expansion (data augmentation).
- Technical Design: Implemented robust Generative AI and computer vision pipelines in Python and PyTorch. Used semantic segmentation approaches for mask-controlled defect synthesis and subsequent evaluation with EfficientDet object detection models.
- Business Impact: Massive dataset upscaling (10x) without time-consuming and costly physical test-bench runs, while significantly improving the detection performance of automated inspection systems.
Technologies & Skills Used: Python | PyTorch | SPADE | Pix2PixHD | EfficientDet | Machine Learning | Semantic Segmentation | Computer Vision
Sercan T.
Last position:
Co-Founder & Lead Software Architect at Pflege-Pfad
- Focus: System architecture, cloud-native platforms, microservices, API design
- Product: Pflege-Pfad is a digital placement platform that directly connects relatives of people in need of care with verified care services and caregivers – without an agency and without ongoing fees.
- Business analysis & process design:
- Analysis of the German care market and identification of the key pain points of both target groups.
- Modeling of core business processes: registration, verification, care request, application, placement, and rating.
- Definition of the business model as a freemium/premium model with optional contact unlocking.
- Creation of user stories and requirements documentation for relatives, care services, and administrators.
- Design of trust and quality assurance mechanisms with document upload, admin review process, and rating system.
- Coordination with stakeholders and validation of product decisions with potential users.
- Technical implementation:
- Design and implementation of the entire platform architecture as the sole developer.
- Design and implementation of a REST API with Spring Boot and Kotlin, including JWT-based authentication.
- Development of the frontend as a single-page application with Angular 17.
- Implementation of the AWS infrastructure with EC2, RDS PostgreSQL, S3, CloudFront, and IAM.
- Document upload with AWS S3 using presigned URLs to verify care services.
- Email notifications via Resend API.
- AI-supported care service search via OpenAI API.
- Implementation of complete user flows such as registration, login, password reset, and the placement process.
- Development of an admin panel for user and care service management as well as analytics.
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions and containerized deployments with Docker.
- End-to-end tests with Playwright.
Technologies: Kotlin, Spring Boot 3, Spring Security, JWT, JPA/Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Angular 17, TypeScript, RxJS, AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, CloudFront CDN, RDS PostgreSQL, IAM), nginx, GitHub Actions, Playwright, Maven, Git, OpenAI API, Resend API, Docker, Scrum, i18n (DE/EN/TR), Kiro, feature flag architecture.
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Statistics of experts using Kubernetes
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years

Position duration
5.1 years

Positions per freelancer
12

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
91%
Master's degree or higher
56%
Doctorate
7%

Certifications per freelancer
3

Most common languages
English, German, French

Speak two or more languages
97%
Based on our profile pool as of 16 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology 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 using Kubernetes
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 16 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Kubernetes 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 (96%)
- Banking and Finance (49%)
- Automotive (40%)
- Retail (36%)
- Manufacturing (34%)
- Professional Services (30%)
- Transportation (30%)
- Healthcare (30%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Container orchestration
Kubernetes is an open-source platform for deploying, scaling and managing containerized workloads. It groups containers into services, schedules them across clusters and replaces failed instances automatically. Teams use it for APIs, web applications, data processing and internal platforms that need consistent operations across environments.
Core building blocks
Kubernetes organizes workloads through Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, Services and Ingress resources. Namespaces separate teams or environments, while ConfigMaps and Secrets provide configuration. Strong specialists understand the control plane, worker nodes, networking, storage classes and the scheduling decisions that keep applications available.
Ecosystem and tooling
The wider Kubernetes ecosystem connects the cluster to the rest of the delivery stack:
- Helm charts and Kustomize for repeatable application releases
- Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry for metrics and observability
- Argo CD or Flux for GitOps delivery
- Container registries, service meshes and policy tools
- Managed services such as Amazon EKS, Azure AKS and Google GKE
When expertise matters
Companies often bring in freelance Kubernetes specialists during a platform migration, a move from virtual machines to containers or a redesign of release processes. They may also need help with cluster upgrades, workload reliability, cloud costs or security controls. External expertise can add direction when the internal team knows the application but lacks deep cluster experience.
Typical deliverables
A Kubernetes engagement can produce a production-ready cluster, deployment manifests, Helm charts, CI/CD integration and documented operating procedures. Other deliverables include autoscaling policies, backup and disaster-recovery plans, network rules, secrets management and dashboards. The right approach depends on workload behavior, compliance needs, team ownership and the chosen cloud or data center environment.
Judging strong specialists
Look for professionals who explain trade-offs instead of treating Kubernetes as a default answer. They should have practical command of Linux, containers, networking, cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code and observability. Strong specialists test failure scenarios, set clear resource boundaries, reduce operational complexity and leave teams with systems they can understand and maintain.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about Kubernetes? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
Kubernetes is used to run and coordinate containerized applications across a cluster of machines. It handles scheduling, service discovery, rolling releases, scaling and recovery, making it suitable for APIs, web applications, batch workloads and internal platforms.
Kubernetes offers a broader ecosystem and a richer model for networking, storage, policy and automated operations than Docker Swarm. Nomad can be simpler to operate for focused workloads, while Kubernetes is often chosen when teams need extensive integrations and long-term platform flexibility.
A strong Kubernetes specialist usually works comfortably with Linux, Docker or another container runtime, cloud infrastructure, networking and infrastructure as code. Experience with Terraform, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD, Prometheus and security practices is also valuable.
The required Kubernetes experience depends on the workload and operational risk. A straightforward development cluster may need focused implementation support, while a production platform with stateful services, strict availability goals or complex networking calls for a specialist who has handled similar conditions.
Most Kubernetes work can be delivered remotely because configuration, deployments, monitoring and documentation are managed through shared repositories and cloud consoles. On-site collaboration may help when the platform runs in a private data center or when teams need intensive workshops and handover sessions.
Ask the Kubernetes freelancer to describe a platform they operated, including incidents, upgrade planning, observability and rollback decisions. Review the clarity of their manifests and documentation, and test whether they can explain resource limits, network paths and security choices in terms your team understands.
Poor Kubernetes configuration can create unstable deployments, excessive cloud spending, weak isolation and difficult incident response. Common issues include missing resource requests, unsafe permissions, fragile probes, unmanaged secrets and monitoring that cannot show where failures begin.
Kubernetes runs in public clouds, private data centers and hybrid environments. Managed services reduce control-plane operations, while self-managed clusters offer more control but require stronger capabilities in upgrades, networking, storage, security and day-to-day reliability.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used Kubernetes in their recent projects is 97 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 778 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used Kubernetes in their recent projects, 91% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 56% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used Kubernetes in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 5.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used Kubernetes in their recent projects are English (98%), German (97%), and French (16%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used Kubernetes in their recent projects are Information Technology (96%), Banking and Finance (49%), and Automotive (40%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used Kubernetes in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (89%), and Project Management (56%).
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