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Karl-Heinz Reis

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ITIL 4 Master

Leipzig
Karl-Heinz Reis

Last position:

Support in the further development of a European IT store service organization (15 countries) at European retail company (discount store)

  • Capturing the current processes Incident Management, IT Service Request Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Service Configuration Management (including CMDB)
  • Carrying out maturity assessments for these processes based on the ITIL® 4 Maturity Model
  • Analyzing the different service value streams based on the ITIL® 4 value stream model
  • Agreeing maturity levels for the processes being reviewed
  • Developing and approving a roadmap to achieve and measure the respective maturity levels
  • Presenting the approach, including milestones, to management for approval
  • Managing external service providers in 1st level support
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Jens Oberender

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Freelance Java Developer / DevOps Engineer

Leipzig
Jens Oberender

Last position:

Freelance Java Developer / DevOps Engineer at Unpublished defense company

  • Extension of OSGi modules in a complex communication solution
  • Debugging communication with Wireshark and remotely in the JENS test environment
  • Migration of tests from TestNG to JUnit 5 with Mockito and AssertJ
  • Updating vulnerable dependencies and improving code quality
  • Changes to the Vaadin frontend
  • Increasing test coverage
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Peter Teich

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Freelance Go-Developer/DevOps-Engineer

Leipzig
Peter Teich

Last position:

Freelance Go-Developer/DevOps-Engineer at IONOS SE

  • Implementation of an API for customers to provide NFS shares in the cloud
  • Creating Kubernetes operators and services with REST APIs in Go
  • Using LinuxKit for provisioning VMs
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Sascha Weißbach

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Lead Product Owner CADKit

Leipzig
Sascha Weißbach

Last position:

Lead Product Owner CADKit at Ottobock SE

  • Realignment and technical leadership of a CAD web platform for the global digitization of the prosthetics manufacturing process
  • Translating the CPO's vision into a technical roadmap and leading an interdisciplinary team of developers, designers, and QA
  • Implementing complex 3D interfaces using Vue.js and Three.js
  • Global rollout of 8 scalable web apps, increasing production efficiency by 80%
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Gwen Glaser

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Senior Consultant

Leipzig
Gwen Glaser

Last position:

Senior Ruby on Rails & DevOps Developer at Sapiens

Further development of a software solution for managing test requests and test notifications according to §106d SGB V for the Hamburg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.

  • Developed numerous features, performance optimizations, refactoring, error analysis
  • Refactored the dev container setup
  • Optimized the GitLab CI build pipeline
  • Contributed optimizations to the team workflow
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Julian Haluska

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Working Student / Master's Thesis Student Software Development

Leipzig
Julian Haluska

Last position:

Working Student / Master's Thesis Student Software Development at Scale GmbH

  • Tech-Stack: Python, Qt, tensorflow.js, plotly, Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Git
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Lucas Jahn

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Full-Stack Developer (WordPress, React.js)

Leipzig
Lucas Jahn

Last position:

Full-Stack Developer (WordPress, React.js) at Rabot Energy

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Mostafa Shawki

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Freelance Senior Software Engineer & AI Consultant

Leipzig
Mostafa Shawki

Last position:

Freelance Senior Software Engineer & AI Consultant at Self-employed

  • Led the development of a complex geospatial data platform, engineering an end-to-end system for processing and analyzing high-resolution aerial imagery.
  • Engineered a scalable backend responsible for on-the-fly map tile serving and running complex data analysis queries using PostGIS and Python.
  • Developed and trained custom computer vision models using Python, PyTorch, and YOLOv8 to perform object detection and segmentation on large-scale datasets.
  • Built modern, responsive user interfaces and data visualization dashboards using Next.js, TypeScript, and React.
  • Gained practical expertise in geospatial libraries such as GDAL and Rasterio for processing and manipulating raster and vector data.
  • Managed the entire project lifecycle, from initial technical architecture and database design to final deployment using Docker.
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Hannes Witt

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Freelance Developer

Leipzig
Hannes Witt

Last position:

intermedix GmbH / CGM Deutschland AG

  • Rule-based software for managing, planning and delivering marketing materials in the pharmaceutical industry

  • High performance, high availability

  • Fullstack, DevOps (CI/CD)

  • Python, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, TypeScript, Docker, Docker Compose, Nginx

  • Successfully migrated old Excel-based processes into an optimized product that has been in production since 2024

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Sebastián Katzer

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Smart Charging

Leipzig
Sebastián Katzer

Last position:

Smart Charging at Mercedes-Benz, MBTI

  • Agile software development in an interdisciplinary environment

  • Cross-team collaboration to achieve important milestones

  • Independently developing new and improving existing features

  • Estimation, refinement, implementation, and presentation

  • Finding solution ideas, analyzing problems, rolling out bug fixes

  • Writing automated tests, manual testing, log and error analysis

  • Ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of the production environment

  • Rolling out releases and multi-stage infrastructure

  • Setting up alerts and monitoring

  • Pair programming, code reviews, documentation

  • On-call duty, 3rd level support

  • Event-Driven Architecture, Clean Code, Hexagonal Architecture

  • Microservices based on Go (Gin), Java 21 (Spring Boot 3), Python (FastAPI)

  • Terraform/OpenTofu, KQL, SQL, JSON, REST, Helm, ArgoCD, AzureCLI, K9s, OAuth2

  • Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Azure EventHub, Kubernetes, nginx, Ingress

  • AppInsights, LogAnalytics, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, OpenAPI 3, Swagger

  • Azure DataExplorer, Storage, KeyVault, Container Registry, Azure Functions,…

  • Junit5/Jupiter, testify, RestAssured, Docker Compose, Wiremock

  • IntelliJ, Scrum, Kanban, Teams, Confluence, OpsGenie, Arc42

  • GitHub CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps

  • EV charging protocols (EVSE, OCPP, V1G, V2G)

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Statistics of experts using Microservices

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

21 years (Germany: 18 years)

Position duration

1.8 years (Germany: 2.7 years)

Positions per freelancer

16 (Germany: 12)

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries

Information Technology, Professional Services, Retail

Certification focus areas

Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development

Bachelor's degree or higher

89% (Germany: 91%)

Master's degree or higher

56% (Germany: 53%)

Doctorate

11% (Germany: 7%)

Certifications per freelancer

4 (Germany: 2)

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

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The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Leipzig 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 Leipzig using Microservices

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

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Daily rate avg. 783 €
Germany avg. 774 €

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 800 €
Germany median 760 €

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

What microservices are

Microservices split a system into small services that work independently and communicate through APIs or events. This approach is used for product platforms, mobile backends, internal tools, and systems that need separate release cycles.

Common work

  • Service decomposition and boundary design
  • API design, gateway setup, and versioning
  • Event-driven flows with messaging
  • Observability, tracing, and alerting
  • Container-based delivery and rollout planning

Skills that matter

Strong specialists know distributed systems, data consistency, and failure handling. They also understand REST, gRPC, queues, Docker, Kubernetes, and how to keep services testable and easy to operate.

When companies bring help

Teams often need freelance expertise when a monolith becomes hard to change, when release speed slows down, or when a new service landscape needs structure. In Leipzig, this is common in software products, logistics, industrial tech, and connected business systems.

What good professionals do

Good professionals do more than split code into smaller parts. They define clear ownership, reduce coupling, protect data flows, and make sure service contracts stay stable as the system grows. They also balance delivery speed with maintainability.

Why the approach works

Microservices help teams scale work across many specialists without forcing one large codebase to carry every change. The model fits systems with uneven load, frequent releases, or different domain needs. It works best when operations, monitoring, and testing are part of the design from day one.

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Frequently asked questions

Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about Microservices.

Microservices are used to build systems that can change and scale in parts instead of as one large application. Companies use them for customer portals, ordering flows, billing, data services, and backends that need independent releases.

Microservices give more separation than a monolith, so teams can release and scale services on their own. Compared with classic service-oriented architecture, they are usually smaller, more focused, and more tied to automated delivery and observability.

A strong Microservices specialist should understand API design, domain boundaries, messaging, resilience patterns, and data consistency. Useful adjacent skills include Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, logging, tracing, and tests that cover service interactions.

A project needs Microservices expertise when the architecture becomes hard to change, releases start blocking each other, or teams need help designing new services. Freelancers are also useful during platform modernization, migration from a monolith, or when a new system must be set up cleanly.

A Microservices project usually needs specialists who have worked on distributed systems before, not just people who know one framework. The right level depends on risk: simple service splits need less depth than a complex platform with many integrations and strict uptime needs.

Yes, Microservices work well with remote collaboration because the work is usually documented through contracts, diagrams, and code. On-site time can help early on with domain discovery or stakeholder alignment, which may matter for teams in Leipzig, but it is not required for every phase.

A good microservices freelancer can explain service boundaries, data flow, failure modes, and trade-offs in plain language. Look for clear decisions, practical monitoring, test strategy, and examples of systems that stayed stable after the first release.

Before hiring for microservices, prepare the current architecture, integration map, deployment setup, and the main pain points. The clearer the service ownership and business goals are, the faster a specialist can make useful changes.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Microservices in their recent projects is 98 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 783 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Microservices in their recent projects, 89% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 56% hold at least a Master's degree, and 11% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Microservices in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Microservices in their recent projects are English (100%), German (91%), and Spanish (27%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Microservices in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Professional Services (64%), and Retail (64%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used Microservices in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (91%), and Project Management (73%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Microservices

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.

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