NGINX Experts in Berlin
for fast, resilient web delivery with precise AI matchingHire experts who configure reverse proxies, secure TLS termination and tune high-traffic web delivery with NGINX, NGINX Plus and container-based environments. FRATCH matches you quickly with vetted, available freelance professionals whose skills fit your project.
Meet FRATCH Experts in Berlin, who have recently used NGINX
Julius H.
Last position:
Freelancer at Freelancer — Pharma Industry
- Led migration to GCP using Terraform, GKE, and GitOps, improving deployment consistency and scalability
- Implemented Datadog observability stack via Terraform and datadog-operator
- Established automated end-to-end tests and on-call processes, improving incident response and service reliability
- Migrated from NGINX Ingress Controller to Kubernetes Gateway API (NGINX Gateway Fabric)
- Migrated stateful services (PostgreSQL and Redis) to GCP, improving scalability and operational reliability
Rüdiger S.
Last position:
Full-Stack Software Engineer / Consultant for Digitalization at ARTEVENT
Designed, built, and launched an internal event planning web application used by over 100 department leads for a large event, despite having no dedicated testing phase.
Ensured smooth, failure-free operation during first production use, leading to the tool being adopted for future events.
Automated catering calculations and related workflows, significantly reducing email communication and manual computation effort for meal planning.
Managed deployment and hosting on a Linux server using Coolify, including application setup and runtime operations.
Hired and guided a communication designer on UX while independently owning all technical decisions and implementation.
Jorge P.
Last position:
Software Engineer – AWS and Kubernetes Specialist at Citti
- Creation, maintenance and hardening of Kubernetes clusters employing Ansible and ArgoCD
- Keywords: Ansible, AWX, Kubernetes, NetApp, Prometheus, CI/CD ArgoCD, SSO, Fluent-bit, HAProxy, Calico, Keycloak, oauth2-proxy, SealedSecrets, kubeseal, Aqua kube-bench, CIS-Benchmarks, Aqua Trivy operator
Murad H.
Last position:
Founder & Technical Lead at Hubpoint.Ai
- Founded an AI-powered scheduling and business-management SaaS for SMBs, owning technology strategy, architecture, product development, UX, billing and go-to-market execution.
- Architected and shipped a multi-tenant platform with REST APIs, RBAC, CRM, billing and notifications, powering the manager dashboard, admin console, booking experience and iOS/Android applications.
- Led and mentored 7 software engineers, 1 DevOps engineer, 1 QA engineer and 1 UX/UI designer, while remaining hands-on across backend, frontend and product delivery.
- Built AI voice and chat agents using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, RAG, pgvector and tool calling; integrated Twilio, Google Calendar/Meet, Stripe and Firebase.
- Owned production infrastructure and automated delivery across separate environments using Docker, Nginx, GitHub Actions and Grafana; represented the company at accelerators and international startup events.
Selected stack: Python, FastAPI, Node.js, Vue 3, React/Next.js, React Native, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker
Ersin K.
Last position:
Founder & Lead Architect at ORBYNT / 7Style
- Full automation of the software development process: ticket analysis → AI coding agents → pull request → automated code review → deployment
- Multi-tenant architecture with 82 database models and real-time WebSocket monitoring
- Integration of 40+ AI tools with Claude & GPT
- Tech stack: React, TypeScript, Express.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ
- Platform in productive use with paying customers
Nikunjkumar P.
Last position:
Senior Java Backend Developer at Questax Professionals GmbH
- Provide the Price Listing Service team with prices for all cars and vans in different markets
- Adapt market-specific requirements such as taxes, government subsidies, campaigns
- Import and synchronize new prices for all new and existing cars and store them in the Redis datastore
- Support our product and on-call duty
- Daily business, development of new features, bug fixing
- Pair programming, code review, mob programming
- Develop POCs for new ideas
- Maintain and extend the backend
- DevOps tasks
- Run Kubernetes updates
- Adjust and further develop Kubernetes resources
- Develop and adapt Helm charts
- Adapt and update ArgoCD
- Maintain, adapt, and improve CI/CD
Mario J.
Last position:
Architect / Developer at handyhase
- Overhaul of the entire design and implementation of new UI/UX aspects using React
- Planning of the software architecture and structuring of the project for long-term scalability using Git for version control
Karthikeyan R.
Last position:
Full-Stack Developer — Own Product at Self-employed
Java 21 · Spring Boot 3 · Keycloak · PostgreSQL · Docker · Nginx · GitHub Actions · DigitalOcean · React 18 · TypeScript · Plasmo
- Architected and shipped a production-ready Job Application Tracker end-to-end: REST API with 5-stage workflow, pagination, sorting, and dynamic filtering — full ownership from design to live cloud deployment on DigitalOcean.
- Implemented production-grade identity management: OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect / JWT / RBAC via Keycloak, applying Hexagonal Architecture and DDD principles.
- Built automated CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions); containerised with Docker; Nginx reverse proxy with path-based routing and SSL termination.
- Developed a Chrome Extension (Plasmo framework, Manifest V3) that auto-fills job applications directly from LinkedIn into the tracker — demonstrates full product thinking across backend API and browser client.
Tobias J.
Last position:
Design of an AI-Agent-Based ERP System
- Design of an LLM-based agent system to control the ERP software
- Development of agent workflows with LangGraph and PydanticAI
- Planning interfaces between business logic and language models
- Planning agent orchestration
- Prototype development and demonstration
Tools: Python, Pydantic, React, LangChain, LangGraph, Linux
Daniel S.
Last position:
Frontend and Web Developer at Datalyze Solutions
- Frontend development and implementation of various designs (landing pages, overview pages)
- Responsible for the content and updates of the Datalyze Solutions company website
- Joint planning and development of an admin application for listing and locating real estate projects (CBRE)
- Joint planning and development of extensive solutions for automatic staff allocation in plants (Bosch)
- Backend development of various small projects with different stacks
- Tech stack: GitLab CI/CD, Elixir, Phoenix Framework, Ecto, PostgreSQL, Docker, Hetzner, Traefik, NGINX, Python, Flask, Next.js/React, Leaflet, GeoServer, TypeScript, MongoDB
René P.
Last position:
Full Stack Developer at XPS Software
- Industry: B2B
- Headless frontend with AEM integration
- Key challenge: Migrating a PWA application in live operation based on .NET and legacy code; the entire application must be converted to React and Express.js/TypeScript
- Technical frameworks: Tailwind, XML, JavaScript, Caddy, ReactJS, Express.js, REST API, JSON
- Cloudflare CDN
- Caddy server with GitHub CI/CD pipeline
Thomas M.
Last position:
Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at TrackCode GmbH
- Developing GitHub Actions/pipelines for automatic application deployment
- Supporting the provisioning of Helm charts for the CI/CD infrastructure
- Rebuilding and migrating a Kubernetes cluster using Rancher
- Creating IaC with Terraform for Kubernetes and additional services (monitoring, databases)
- Deploying a highly available Percona Galera cluster (MySQL)
- Implementing a centralized monitoring and logging infrastructure
Christopher M.
Last position:
Mobile & Full-Stack Engineer at Propstack GmbH
- Refactored the mobile app by reimplementing stores, models, API client, screens and components using Typescript
- Added performant on-device storage for stores as preparation for offline mode
- Integrated RNUILib to achieve a minimal and modern UI design quickly
- Implemented native packages to provide additional features such as displaying of caller IDs
- Planned feature development and UX improvements following initial refactoring and redesign
Marco R.
Last position:
Fullstack Developer at Artificial Intelligence/LLMs
- Built a portfolio website using Vue 3 implementing dynamic pages responsive UI components.
- Integrated OpenAI ChatGPT API for interactive AI content generation.
- Handled API requests and media management via Cloudflare, enabling efficient communication and asset delivery.
- Vue.js
- Vuetify
- C++, WPF
- Debian
- Matlab
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Tailwind CSS
- Cloudflare Workers
- GitHub Actions
- Node.js
Wisdom N.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at Peer Network PSE UG
- Built full CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, PHPStan, Newman, Gitleaks, Trivy, SQL validation, and HTMLExtra reporting.
- Implemented automated SQL import in CI (docker-entrypoint-initdb.d) and custom Postman collection merging with Node.js for deterministic API testing.
- Created organization wide PR auto labeling workflow and a Developer Mapping System (GitHub, Developer, Discord) for targeted CI notifications.
- Developed full local DevOps environment (Dockerfile.local, Nginx and Supervisor) and a 400+ line Makefile supporting CI2, local CI replication, testing, monitoring, and pre-commit checks.
- Built strict SQL validation system enforcing safe migration rules and blocking unsafe PRs.
- Automated QA reporting: HTMLExtra, GitHub Pages deployment and auto pruning.
- Implemented production API monitoring (Bash, Python, cron and Telegram alerts).
- Built and deployed Mintbot automation (GraphQL queries, retries, logging, cron).
- Designed backend and database deployment automation (SQL diff detection, DB cloning, SSH ProxyJump deployment, rollback logic, Discord notifications).
- Created reusable workflow library (Discord messaging, artifact upload, Trivy, Gitleaks, branch sync, auto update PR, auto label).
- Designed internal DevOps Dashboard architecture for CI health, PR freshness, repo analytics.
- Built GHCR base image pipelines with FFmpeg, Rust, and PHP extensions for faster CI builds.
- Standardized .github/ documentation, naming conventions, workflow structures.
- Introduced Dependabot for the backend repository and built Cloudflare Worker for CVE alerts to Discord.
- Implemented GitHub Actions enforcement: required checks, blocked outdated PRs, protected branches, mandatory reviews.
Discover over 15,000 top freelancers
Statistics of experts using NGINX
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
17 years (Germany: 20 years)
Position duration
1.5 years (Germany: 3.1 years)
Positions per freelancer
12 (Germany: 14)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
86% (Germany: 82%)
Master's degree or higher
50% (Germany: 44%)
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 98%)
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 Berlin 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 Berlin using NGINX
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.
NGINX 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%)
- Media and Entertainment (48%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Education (33%)
- Retail (33%)
- Telecommunication (33%)
- Banking and Finance (29%)
- Healthcare (29%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What NGINX does
NGINX is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy used to serve websites, APIs and static assets. It routes requests, balances traffic across application instances and handles TLS termination close to the edge. Companies also use it as an ingress layer between the public internet and internal services.
Common delivery tasks
- Configure reverse proxying for web applications and APIs
- Distribute traffic across reliable upstream services
- Serve cached or static content with low overhead
- Set up TLS, redirects, headers and access controls
- Manage ingress for containerized workloads
NGINX often sits in front of application runtimes such as Node.js, PHP-FPM, Python and Java. Its configuration can connect public traffic to monoliths, microservices and content platforms without exposing each service directly.
Ecosystem and tooling
The wider ecosystem includes NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus, Kubernetes ingress patterns and modules for authentication, caching and observability. Strong specialists work comfortably with Linux, DNS, HTTP, TLS, certificates, firewalls and network troubleshooting. They also use logs, metrics and tracing to understand latency and failed requests.
When specialists help
Companies bring in freelance expertise when a new service needs a dependable edge layer, an existing setup has unstable traffic behavior or a migration requires careful routing changes. Berlin teams may also use remote specialists for focused delivery, while on-site collaboration can help when NGINX is tied to local infrastructure, security reviews or German-language stakeholders.
What quality looks like
Good professionals treat configuration as production code. They create clear upstream rules, safe defaults, repeatable deployments and rollback paths rather than relying on ad hoc server edits. They can explain why a setting affects connection handling, caching, compression or resilience, then validate the result with logs and realistic traffic tests.
Selecting the right professional
Look for evidence of work with the exact delivery model your project uses: public web traffic, internal APIs, Kubernetes ingress, CDN integration or hybrid infrastructure. Ask how the specialist approaches certificate renewal, configuration testing, monitoring and incident response. The best fit combines NGINX depth with the application, cloud and security knowledge surrounding your environment.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about NGINX.
NGINX is commonly used as a web server, reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP cache. Companies place it in front of websites, APIs, application runtimes and microservices to control traffic, improve resilience and protect internal services.
NGINX uses an event-driven approach that handles many concurrent connections efficiently, especially when serving static content or proxying requests. Apache HTTP Server offers a broad module ecosystem and flexible process models, so the better choice depends on application compatibility, team skills and operating requirements.
A strong NGINX specialist usually understands Linux administration, DNS, HTTP, TLS, networking and firewall rules. Experience with Kubernetes ingress, cloud load balancing, CI/CD, monitoring and application runtimes is also valuable when NGINX sits inside a larger delivery chain.
The right level depends on the work, not a fixed career duration. A straightforward proxy configuration may need focused NGINX knowledge, while a high-traffic migration or security-sensitive environment calls for a professional who has handled routing failures, certificate issues, performance tuning and rollback planning.
NGINX is well suited to remote collaboration because configuration, deployment and observability can be managed through version control and shared infrastructure tools. For Berlin-based projects, clarify expectations for on-site sessions, German-language communication and access to private networks or physical systems.
A quality NGINX engagement should produce tested configuration, documented routing rules, secure TLS settings and a clear deployment or rollback process. It should also include useful logging and monitoring so the team can diagnose upstream failures, slow responses and unexpected traffic patterns.
NGINX can serve as an ingress layer for Kubernetes services and route external requests to internal workloads. The specialist should understand ingress resources, certificates, service discovery, configuration updates and the operational limits of the chosen Kubernetes setup.
Ask the NGINX specialist to explain trade-offs around proxy buffering, timeouts, caching, connection handling and upstream health. Good professionals test changes safely, review logs and metrics, document assumptions and connect every setting to a concrete reliability, security or delivery goal.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects is 92 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 735 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 50% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects have 17 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (24%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Media and Entertainment (48%), and Automotive (38%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (90%), and Quality Assurance (57%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used NGINX
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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