NetBeans Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used NetBeans
Burhan D.
Last position:
Enterprise Architect & Solution Architect at DB Netz AG
With project PRIZMA, DB will modernize its infrastructure on the one hand, and develop a fail-safe IT landscape on the other hand, which can be restored quickly and securely in case of a disaster.
- Capture current architectures of existing systems as well as methodical consulting and development of target architectures
- Deepen and maintain the building plan / target IT landscape
- Implement technical architecture concepts & architecture descriptions
- Implement migration concepts for updating and further developing the platform and information systems
- Assess submitted improvement suggestions as part of the project
- Capability management: identify capability gaps, develop target visions, and support transformation planning within the enterprise architecture.
- Create a compatibility matrix of the components in use and compare dependencies of specific versions
- Create an IT concept for extending the platform with the following topics: hardware and software requirements, security, licensing, high availability, load balancing, backup & recovery, update strategy, monitoring integration, etc.
- Coordinate with business architects as well as technical architects from the cross-functional architecture area of the PRISMA program for the topics (backup, Active Directory, monitoring, Citrix, and business applications ...)
- Status meetings and alignment of project planning with the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager
- Advise the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager in identifying project risks
- Advise the System Architect Engineers in steering the implementation of the concept
- Implement the IT concept
- Document the infrastructure
Label: MS Project, LINUX, Windows, ORACLE, Java, REST, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, UML, Enterprise Architect, BPMN, AZURE, AWS, V-MODEL, Micro Service, VisualStudio, SAP S/4HANA, SCRUM(SAFE), ESB (TIBCO), Python, Innovator, LeanIX (TOGAF), Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Automation, ROBOT, SpringBoot
Kersten L.
Last position:
Lead Architect / Lead Developer at Bettles: Sports Betting Platform
- Complete greenfield rebuild across the whole stack — built AI-native: backend in Go and NestJS, PostgreSQL (CNPG) on K3s with GitOps/Terraform; frontend on Angular 22, zoneless.
- Orchestrated coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) across the entire lifecycle — architecture, implementation, testing, reviews, documentation — driven by Specification-Driven Development (SDD).
- “Bruno” — LLM commentator persona backed by RAG and MCP for a personality that stays consistent across all generations (match previews, post-match reports, his own virtual bets).
Angular 22 (zoneless, without Zone.js), Claude Code, Claude Code Skills, CNPG, Cursor, Design Tokens (Spec for Code), Docker, Gherkin, Git, GitLab, GitOps, Go, Google Gemini, Grafana, Hetzner Cloud, K3s, Keycloak, Kubernetes, Lighthouse, LLM Integration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), NestJS, Node.js, NPM, Playwright, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, RAG, REST, Specification-Driven Development (SDD), Structured Outputs, Terraform, TypeScript, Vitest
Armin V.
Last position:
Software Developer at DFS GmbH
- TANGe is a DFS project to introduce a modern digital tower system that is meant to make airport air traffic handling safer, more efficient, and future-ready. My current task in this project is the development of the Runway SID Assignment Service, which is responsible for assigning departure routes from an airport. SID - Standard Instrument Departure stands for a standardized departure route.
Software: Java, microservices, Kafka, Robot Framework, Gitlab, Kubernetes, Docker
Christof H.
Last position:
Senior Frontend Developer at HUK24 AG
- Designing new apps as well as enhancing and running 29 Angular apps for digital claims in an Nx monorepo
- Maintaining and improving a shared component library with ~300 libraries for multiple product teams
- Migrating all apps to a new design system including its component library and systematic refactoring
- Developing and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Terraform, AWS)
- Managing releases independently including branch handling, versioning, PR coordination and production deployment
- Implementing and maintaining tracking (Adobe Analytics)
- Ensuring accessibility according to BFSG/WCAG
- Test-driven development (TDD) with Jest and Cypress
- Code reviews, mentoring and setting up best practices in the team
- Technologies: TypeScript, Angular 16-20, RxJS, NgRx, Nx (Monorepo), npm, HTML, (S)CSS, Storybook, Jest, Cypress, Cucumber, Husky, Node.js, Git, AWS, Azure DevOps (Repos & Pipelines), Jenkins, Terraform, TDD, BFSG, WCAG, Nexus, IntelliJ, Adobe Analytics
Volker A.
Last position:
Senior Frontend Angular Developer at fintus GmbH
- Senior Frontend Angular and Frontend
- Integrating Camunda processes into the frontend
- Development supported by ChatGPT (Codex) and Claude (skills etc.)
Knowledge: Angular, Camunda
Products used: Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, Camunda
Christian M.
Last position:
Self-employed business consultant at CuriousMinds Unternehmensberatung
- Strategic consulting, technical consulting, interim management, and training
- Management consulting and development of application solutions through interdisciplinary solution approaches
- Employee and team development as well as innovation and communication management
Olaf R.
Last position:
DevOps Architect / Consultant at Authority with increased security requirements
- Identification of requirements (legal, organizational, and technical)
- Design of solution architectures
- Evaluation of concepts and technologies
- Preparation of decision templates
- Architectural Decision Records (ADR)
- Coordination of implementation
- Review of implementations
- Documentation
Marcus B.
Last position:
Data Engineer at Deutsche Bahn AG via Scoore GmbH
- Development of ETL pipelines with Talend (7/ Enterprise)
- Development/adaptation of database schema/database functions (PostgreSQL)
- Development of GIT CI pipelines
Technologies: Talend Enterprise, Git, PostgreSQL, Dbeaver, SQL, PL-SQL, Liquibase
Ola V.
Last position:
IT Lecturer
- IT training in theory and practice for IT specialists in application development and system integration
Stephan H.
Last position:
Development, Tester at Telecommunications
Set up an operational contract information system. This is mainly used as an order management system - for migrating existing contracts as well as for creating and providing new contract bundles.
Sales agents can use it to order new services, modify existing ones and migrate service types, as well as provide price information to the customer.
This supports the marketing of new services as well as the replacement of old services for existing customers.
In addition, existing data is imported, processed (ETL) and provided via services for further use in the portal front end.
Analysis of the business and technical use cases (workflows, involved processes/systems, communication paths, security requirements)
Further development / creation of the front-end components (React/JavaScript)
Design and implementation of the business logic
Creation of the functional and technical component documentation
Test execution / test automation (Cypress, test coverage)
Team size: 8 people
Technologies: React, JavaScript, Rest (JSon), Yaml, Markdown, MariaDB (SQL), Docker, Swagger, Cypress
Tools: Webstorm, ReactDeveloperTools, VisualStudioCode, Word, DBeaver, Git/GitLab
Work management: GitLab
Platform: Linux
Build management: GitLab
Alexander S.
Last position:
AI Consultant for AI Voice Bot System at Rudolf Hörmann GmbH & Co.KG
- Consultant for system architecture, AI agents & integration, coach for data & process logic, Graph-RAG approaches, security and data protection.
- On-premise AI solutions with high compliance and performance requirements.
- Architecture decisions, operational setup, strategic prioritization & deployment.
- Technologies: LiveKit JS SDK, LiveKit Agents, Web Audio API, JS, AudioWorklet, Loki, vLLM, Zscaler, Docker, Neo4j, MySQL, Python.
- Models: GPT-OSS 20B, Whisper large v3 turbo, Qwen3-TTS.
Aiman R.
Last position:
Test Manager and Test Automation Engineer at Warehouse Management Company
- Introduced test management with SolMan
- Implemented test automation with TOSCA
- Analyzed, created, and automated test cases
- Built regression test portfolio
- Stakeholder meetings and alignments
- Financial management
Martin M.
Last position:
Test automation for trading software at Martin Moser IT Consulting GmbH
- Set up GUI test framework for testers and developers to easily create GUI tests
- Implemented automated GUI tests with QF-Test for stock trading software and PDF file comparisons
- Created comparison runs between different versions
Used technologies: QF-Test, Java, Jython
Ivan A.
Last position:
Module Lead ML KH (Project Manager / Test Manager) at BMW AG
- Overall responsibility for the quality of module KH
- Technical leadership and coordination of a module lead team
- Analysis of design models and alignment of technical requirements
- Preparation of risk analyses and presentations, and presenting them to decision-makers
- Test management, development, coordination and approval of current test cases and their prioritization for test events
- Test planning for different test phases
- Coordination of test phases with other departments to ensure relevant aspects of business operations
- Prioritization of handling existing bugs/tickets
- Tracking and validation of the quality of problem management
- Consistency checks, planning, prioritization and sorting of tickets
- Preparation and coordination of required test data
- Tracking ALM (QC) processes and their implementation at module level
- Collaboration with interface partners for bug fixes
- Ensuring effective communication within the team and with interface partners
- Coordination of tasks when processing tickets in ML KH
- Tracking, assignment and clarification of bug-fix scheduling
- Close collaboration and management of suppliers (at module level), the development department, and external partners
- Planning, development, execution and evaluation of functional tests
- Conducting functional end-to-end tests
- Weekly reports on current test and defect status to management committees
- Planning and executing performance and load tests to ensure that SOA applications meet expected performance and scalability requirements
- Developing test strategies and test plans for SOA-based applications
- Defining test objectives and criteria to ensure services meet requirements
- Integration of test automation
Felix S.
Last position:
System Consultant / Consultant at Freelance work
- Projects in the area of Identity and Access Management, Single Sign-On, and LDAP directories
- Development of Java modules
- Development and administration of Java/J2EE-based applications on different application servers
- Administration of Unix systems (Linux, Solaris, AIX) and applications
- Migration of systems
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Statistics of experts using NetBeans
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
18
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
88%
Master's degree or higher
44%
Doctorate
16%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
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 Germany 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 Germany using NetBeans
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.
NetBeans 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 (98%)
- Banking and Finance (60%)
- Automotive (53%)
- Manufacturing (53%)
- Transportation (47%)
- Healthcare (45%)
- Retail (43%)
- Education (38%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What NetBeans is
NetBeans is an open-source integrated development environment for Java and related technologies. Today it is maintained as Apache NetBeans, while many teams still search for it as NetBeans IDE. It combines source editing, project management, debugging, testing and version control in one workspace.
Applications and systems
NetBeans supports the delivery of Java desktop software, backend services, enterprise applications and educational projects. Its modular design also fits teams that need a tailored development environment or reliable support for multiple programming languages.
- Java desktop applications with Swing or JavaFX
- Maven- and Gradle-based services
- Jakarta EE and web application projects
- REST APIs, database-backed systems and integration components
Ecosystem and tooling
Strong NetBeans specialists work across the Java ecosystem rather than only inside the editor. They configure Maven or Gradle builds, use Git for collaboration, connect databases through JDBC, and apply JUnit or other testing tools. Depending on the project, they also work with Spring, Jakarta EE, JavaFX, Docker and CI pipelines.
Apache NetBeans supports extensibility through modules and integrates with standard Java tooling. Expertise may include project migration, IDE configuration, code analysis, profiling and troubleshooting build or dependency issues.
When companies need expertise
Companies often bring in freelance NetBeans expertise when an existing Java codebase needs focused delivery without disrupting the internal team. Specialists can modernize an older NetBeans IDE setup, move projects to Apache NetBeans, improve build reliability or prepare a release.
- A legacy Java application needs maintenance or migration
- A team needs help with Maven, Gradle, Git or CI configuration
- A desktop interface requires new features or defect fixes
- A Java service needs testing, profiling or performance review
Working in Germany
NetBeans specialists support software teams in manufacturing, public services, education, finance and other sectors where Java systems remain important. Remote collaboration works well when repositories, build rules and access procedures are clearly documented. On-site workshops can help with legacy systems, team enablement or complex release coordination, while German and English communication may both be relevant.
What strong specialists deliver
A capable NetBeans professional understands the application beyond the IDE. They can explain dependency choices, keep builds reproducible, write maintainable Java, and investigate issues through logs, tests and debuggers. They also separate editor preferences from project standards, document setup decisions and leave a team with a workflow it can operate confidently.
Look for evidence of similar Java systems, clear testing practices and practical migration experience. A strong specialist asks about the current JDK, build tool, deployment target and release process before proposing changes.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to NetBeans.
NetBeans is mainly used to create, test, debug and maintain Java applications. Teams use it for desktop software, web services, enterprise systems, REST APIs and database-connected applications. Its project tools and editor can also support languages and frameworks beyond Java.
Apache NetBeans provides an integrated Java workspace with strong support for standard project structures, Maven, Gradle, Git and modular extensions. IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse may offer different workflows, plugins or team preferences, so the right choice depends on the codebase, licensing needs and existing tooling. A freelancer should be able to work with the chosen IDE without making the editor the centre of the architecture.
A strong NetBeans specialist usually brings solid Java knowledge plus Maven or Gradle, Git, JUnit and database integration skills. Depending on the assignment, useful adjacent experience includes Spring, Jakarta EE, JavaFX, Docker, CI pipelines and cloud deployment. The relevant combination depends on whether the work concerns a desktop application, service or enterprise system.
The need varies with the system rather than the IDE. A contained feature may suit a specialist familiar with Java project structure and testing, while a legacy migration or release-critical enterprise system calls for proven experience with dependency management, debugging and deployment. Ask for examples of comparable codebases and deliverables, not only time spent using NetBeans.
Yes. NetBeans projects are well suited to remote work when source control, build instructions, test environments and access permissions are in place. On-site collaboration can still help with legacy applications, workshops or restricted systems in Germany, and teams should agree whether German, English or both are needed for documentation and meetings.
Ask how the specialist would inspect the project, reproduce a defect and protect the change with tests. A good NetBeans professional can explain Maven or Gradle configuration, Git practices, dependency risks and debugging steps in clear terms. Review the quality of past deliverables and the clarity of their technical questions before engagement.
NetBeans IDE can be useful for maintaining older Java applications when its supported JDK, libraries and build setup match the project. A specialist should first assess compatibility, deprecated APIs, external dependencies and the release process. They can then recommend a controlled upgrade, continued maintenance or a migration path to Apache NetBeans or another IDE.
Before starting NetBeans work, clarify the JDK version, project format, Maven or Gradle usage, repository rules, test coverage and deployment target. Also establish whether the assignment covers new features, defect resolution, migration, performance or team support. These details reveal the required skills and prevent an IDE change from masking deeper build or architecture issues.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used NetBeans in their recent projects is 94 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 755 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used NetBeans in their recent projects, 88% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 44% hold at least a Master's degree, and 16% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used NetBeans in their recent projects have 22 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 NetBeans in their recent projects are German (100%), English (98%), and French (21%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used NetBeans in their recent projects are Information Technology (98%), Banking and Finance (60%), and Automotive (53%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used NetBeans in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (96%), and Quality Assurance (72%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used NetBeans
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