NGINX Experts in Berlin
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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
Frank B.
Last position:
Software Engineer at Freelancer
- Freelance Software Engineer with a focus on backend (Python/Django) and frontend (VueJS).
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
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
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
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
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Statistics of experts using NGINX
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
17 years (Germany: 20 years)
Position duration
1.6 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: 42%)
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 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Berlin 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 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 29 Oct 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 for handling HTTP traffic between users and application services. Companies use it to serve static content, route requests, terminate TLS, balance traffic and protect backend systems from unnecessary load.
Typical delivery work
- Configure reverse proxy rules for web applications and APIs
- Set up load balancing, caching and compression
- Route traffic across containers and cloud services
- Secure domains with TLS certificates and modern protocols
- Improve availability during traffic spikes
NGINX can sit at the edge of a system or inside a private network, depending on the architecture and security model.
Ecosystem and tooling
Strong specialists work with NGINX configuration files, Linux, DNS, TLS, HTTP and observability tools. They often connect it to Docker, Kubernetes, cloud load balancers, CI/CD pipelines and application stacks such as Node.js, PHP, Python or Java. NGINX Plus may be relevant when a project needs commercial support or extended traffic-management features.
When companies need specialists
Freelance expertise is useful when an existing setup has slow responses, routing errors, certificate problems or fragile deployments. It also helps during migrations from Apache HTTP Server, a move to containers, a cloud transition or the launch of a public API. In Berlin, specialists may support local teams on site or collaborate remotely with distributed product and infrastructure groups.
What quality looks like
A capable professional explains how each directive affects traffic, caching, security and failure handling. They test configuration changes safely, document the request flow and use logs and metrics to verify outcomes. Good work includes sensible timeouts, controlled access, clear rollback steps and an approach that fits the application rather than relying on copied configuration.
Planning an NGINX engagement
Define the traffic pattern, application stack, hosting model and current pain points before work begins. Clarify whether the specialist will own configuration, infrastructure automation, incident support or knowledge transfer. Professionals who understand both NGINX and the services behind it can resolve issues across the full request path and leave a maintainable setup.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about NGINX.
NGINX is used as a web server, reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP cache. It commonly sits in front of web applications and APIs to route requests, serve static files, terminate TLS and reduce pressure on application services.
NGINX and Apache HTTP Server can both serve websites and proxy applications, but they use different configuration and request-processing models. NGINX is often chosen for efficient event-driven traffic handling, while Apache may be preferred when its module ecosystem or per-directory configuration fits the environment.
A strong NGINX specialist usually understands Linux, DNS, TLS, HTTP, networking and application logs. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code and observability is valuable when NGINX is part of a larger delivery system.
The right level depends on the scope, not just the configuration size. A basic proxy may need focused configuration expertise, while multi-region routing, security hardening, Kubernetes ingress or incident response calls for a professional who has operated NGINX in comparable production environments.
NGINX work is often suitable for remote collaboration because configuration, logs, tests and deployment workflows can be reviewed securely online. On-site work in Berlin can still help when the engagement involves internal networking, access controls, hardware or close coordination with a local operations team.
NGINX Plus can suit organizations that need commercial support, additional monitoring capabilities or advanced traffic-management features. The choice should follow operational requirements, compliance needs and the existing architecture rather than brand preference alone.
Ask the professional to explain the request flow, failure behavior, security controls and rollback plan. High-quality NGINX work is tested, documented and validated with logs and metrics instead of being judged only by whether the service starts.
Before starting, clarify ownership of DNS, certificates, upstream services, deployment automation and incident response. A freelancer working with NGINX should also confirm access boundaries, expected availability, change controls and whether the assignment covers Apache migration, container ingress or ongoing operations.
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 1.6 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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