Microservices Experts in Vienna
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Vienna, who have recently used Microservices
Alexander P.
Last position:
Owner & Lecturer at Own company for AI governance and data products, Vienna
- Consulting and interim management at the interface between IT operations and regulation
- Impact analysis and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and the EU AI Act, including risk management and reporting and evidence processes
- Training for governing bodies and employees on regulatory obligations
- Lectures in Data & Information Management and Human-Machine Interaction at University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, since 2023
- Supervision of master’s theses and participation in the examination board
- Presentations for business and educational institutions
- Design and development of data and AI products, platforms and pipelines
- Privacy-first architectures and zero-knowledge encryption, cloud-native on EU infrastructure
- MLOps and AIOps in live operations
- Own applications under own brand: shared codebase, separate delivery for each target device
- AI-assisted software development (vibe coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
- Publications on the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
- Publications on data sovereignty, cloud economics and industrial image processing
- AI governance / compliance: data quality, Responsible AI, EU AI Act readiness, risk classification, AI ethics
John A.
Last position:
Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)
Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and systems configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, JavaScript, Bash scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.
Manuel P.
Last position:
AI Engineer at Misumi Europe GmbH & Motius GmbH
- Designed and built a next-generation NLP platform to accelerate sales-driven customer service through intelligent request analysis and routing, reducing average customer query response time by 30%.
- Architected a hybrid NLP system combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with traditional NLP pipelines for robust, explainable results.
- Developed request classification and routing mechanisms to accelerate customer support teams in handling customer queries faster and more accurately.
- Optimized LLM based data extraction and classification with context engineering.
- Integrated the platform into customer service processes, reducing response times and enhancing workforce efficiency.
Roman M.
Last position:
Software Engineer at FSM Rechtsanwälte
- Develop AWS-based components connecting Python backend services to React/TypeScript frontends.
- Improve database queries and application workflows for document processing and screening.
- Evaluate LLM retrieval and document-review workflows as part of the product stack.
Marcel S.
Last position:
Senior AI Engineer - Python at Insurance Company
Project Tech Stack: Python, AWS, Azure, FastAPI, openai, pandas, unittest/pymock
Achievements:
- Engineered automated data extraction pipelines to transform complex Excel datasets into structured formats via LLM-driven workflows.
- Architected a generative slide-deck engine that translates natural language prompts into formatted presentation assets.
- Integrated advanced LLM capabilities with the OpenAI Response API, implementing sophisticated tool-calling and structured output logic.
- Developed and containerized scalable backend microservice using FastAPI, Docker, and OpenShift to host and serve agentic skills.
Mark K.
Last position:
Business Analyst / Business Designer at UNIQA
- Incident analysis and troubleshooting
- Process improvements in collaboration with the business teams
- Joint design and implementation of requirements with the business department and architecture
- Planning and execution of quality management
Michail M.
Last position:
OpenShift Specialist, Developer at Insurance
Project goal: Introduce OpenShift as the run-time platform and migrate all applications to OpenShift.
My contribution: Make sure logging and monitoring for the applications were in place. Set up and put into operation the OpenShift components for logging and monitoring (Elasticsearch, Prometheus, and Grafana). Develop and implement the security concept for OpenShift. Work with developers to define and carry out the application changes needed for the OpenShift migration. Integrate monitoring into the applications.
Technical environment: Java, WebSphere Liberty, OpenShift components, Elasticsearch (ELK stack), Prometheus, Grafana.
Alexander V.
Last position:
Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Architect at A.S.E. | Business Solutions for Construction
- Architected and deployed a highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for business-critical microservices.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy using Terraform for managing GKE clusters, networking (VPCs, Subnets), and IAM policies.
- Engineered optimized storage solutions for stateful workloads (MongoDB) using GKE PersistentVolumes, enhancing performance and data resiliency.
- Established a full-stack observability framework using Google Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Üsame T.
Last position:
Java Backend Developer at Porsche Informatik
- Java EE 8 development
- Java 21 and Spring Boot 3 microservices development
- Release management
- Onboarding of new team members
- Owner of an team-internal "Best Code Engineering Award"
Burak E.
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at Nürnberger Versicherung
Further development of an insurance product quotation system
- Implementation and maintenance of pricing logic for property and casualty products (accident, property liability, business contents) based on Java and FaktorIPS
- Implementation of actuarial tariff revisions into product-specific calculation models
- Development and refactoring of backend components and web UI components
- Creation and maintenance of test tables and automated premium tests for quality assurance
- Code reviews and active involvement in quality assurance in the development process
- Production support and bug fixing in live operations
Matthias K.
Last position:
Business Architect at E5GTEC
- Analysis of extended requirements related to existing controllers in an industrial plant
- Creating concepts for storing and visualizing sensor data
- Communication with PLCs
- Microservice architecture
- Unified architecture
- AI-based evaluations of sensor data
- Technologies used: .NET 8, Minimal API, Postgres, MQTT, RabbitMQ
Joseph W.
Last position:
Freelancer Cloud / Solution Architect (AWS) at A1 Bank
- I am responsible for providing solution architecture and technical assistance for a migration initiative aimed at transitioning to a new core banking system.
- The project involves replacing in-house development with a commercially available off-the-shelf core banking system operated as SaaS on AWS.
- Duties encompass solution design, technical coordination, supporting development teams, and providing IT support and troubleshooting.
- Managing over 10 global vendors and partners is crucial to project success.
- Technologies: VMWare ESXi, AWS, EKS Kubernetes, Mastercard Payment Transaction Service, Avaloq, A1 Telekom Austria infrastructure, CheckPoint FW, F5, Site-to-Site VPNs, PingID, Futurae SDK, Airlock, UC4/Automic, Firebase, iOS/Android lifecycle management, AWS IAM, AWS AppStream, AWS S3, AWS Transfer Family, QlikView, OpenAPI.
Maximilian G.
Last position:
Solo Developer / Founder at InvAPI
- Privacy-first, stateless e-invoice API providing AI-powered extraction, bidirectional format conversion (UBL/CII/ZUGFeRD), batch processing, and validation for German/Austrian e-invoice compliance
- Technologies: Nuxt 4, Vue 3, Nitro, TypeScript, Cloudflare (D1, R2), Stripe, OAuth, AI/LLM integration
Attila D.
Last position:
Full-Stack Software Engineer at Research Data Evaluation
- Custom anonymized research data analyzer, providing insights and facilitating data-driven decision-making.
- Designed and developed back- and frontend.
- Delivered end-to-end solution.
- Accelerated research timeline by 2 months.
Jori M.
Last position:
Agile IT Manager Healthcare Systems at MA01 Gov. Digital City
- Responsible for managing GMP-critical systems
- Leading a team of 20 professionals
- Vendor management with a €15M annual budget
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Statistics of experts using Microservices
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
2.5 years
Positions per freelancer
9
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Government and Administration, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
82%
Master's degree or higher
53%
Doctorate
6%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
95%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Vienna 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 Vienna using Microservices
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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Microservices 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 (95%)
- Government and Administration (58%)
- Banking and Finance (53%)
- Transportation (42%)
- Professional Services (42%)
- Insurance (37%)
- Healthcare (32%)
- Manufacturing (32%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Microservices Means
Microservices is an architectural approach that splits an application into small, independently deployable services. Each service owns a focused business capability and communicates through defined interfaces, often using REST, gRPC, or asynchronous messaging. This is also called microservice architecture.
What It Builds
Microservices supports platforms that need independent releases, elastic scaling, and clear ownership across business domains. Typical products include ecommerce systems, payment services, logistics platforms, media applications, and internal enterprise tools.
- Domain-focused services with clear boundaries
- APIs for synchronous and asynchronous communication
- Event-driven workflows with reliable message handling
- Independent deployment and service versioning
Ecosystem and Tooling
Strong specialists work across the service runtime and its surrounding infrastructure. Common choices include Spring Boot, .NET, Node.js, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, and cloud services. They also apply API gateways, service discovery, observability, and automated delivery pipelines.
When Companies Need Expertise
Companies usually bring in freelance professionals when a monolith has become difficult to release, scale, or maintain. Specialists can assess service boundaries, plan a safe migration, establish platform standards, and improve reliability without disrupting existing operations.
- Breaking down a monolithic application
- Designing resilient service-to-service communication
- Introducing Kubernetes deployment and operations
- Adding tracing, metrics, logging, and alerting
- Reviewing security, data ownership, and failure handling
Working in Vienna
Vienna companies in finance, mobility, retail, public services, and industrial operations may run distributed systems that combine cloud services with established enterprise platforms. Local specialists can support on-site workshops when architecture decisions require close collaboration, while remote delivery works well for implementation, reviews, and platform work. German or English may be relevant depending on the stakeholders.
What Strong Professionals Bring
Quality is more than splitting code into separate services. Strong professionals define useful boundaries, keep contracts stable, manage data consistency deliberately, and design for failure. They make trade-offs visible, test communication paths, secure service identities, and use observability to explain production behavior. Their documentation and delivery approach leave the team able to operate the system with confidence.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about Microservices, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
Microservices are used to build applications as a set of independently deployable services. They suit systems that need separate release cycles, targeted scaling, or clear ownership of business capabilities. They are not automatically the right choice for a small or stable application.
Microservices separate an application into services, while a monolith keeps most capabilities in one deployable unit. The distributed approach can improve team autonomy and selective scaling, but it adds network calls, operational complexity, and harder data consistency decisions.
A strong microservices specialist usually understands API design, cloud infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and automated testing. Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ, database ownership, identity management, and resilience patterns is also valuable.
A professional working with microservices should have relevant experience with distributed systems, not only with splitting application code into separate repositories. Ask for examples involving service boundaries, deployment, monitoring, failure recovery, and production incidents. The right depth depends on system risk, integration complexity, and the team’s existing capabilities.
Yes. Microservices projects can be delivered remotely when architecture decisions, service contracts, runbooks, and ownership are documented clearly. For Vienna-based teams, on-site workshops can still help when several business groups must agree on boundaries or migration priorities.
Look for clear reasoning about trade-offs rather than a fixed preference for microservices. A strong specialist can explain when a monolith is safer, how failures propagate, how data is owned, and how the team will observe and operate each service. Practical design reviews and a focused architecture exercise can reveal this quickly.
No. Microservices add operational and architectural overhead, so a modular monolith may be a better starting point for a small team or an evolving product. The decision should follow independent scaling needs, release friction, domain separation, and the organization’s ability to operate distributed systems.
A microservices expert may deliver a target architecture, service boundary map, API specifications, migration plan, deployment templates, observability standards, and production-ready services. They can also document operational procedures and coach the internal team on testing, incident response, and safe releases.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Microservices in their recent projects is 101 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 811 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Microservices in their recent projects, 82% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 53% hold at least a Master's degree, and 6% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Microservices in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Microservices in their recent projects are German (100%), English (95%), and Spanish (16%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Microservices in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Government and Administration (58%), and Banking and Finance (53%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Vienna, Austria who have used Microservices in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (95%), and Operations (53%).
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