NGINX Experts in Berlin
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Rüdiger Schulz
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.
Julius Herrera Glomm
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
Ersin Keser
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
Mario Jelinski
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
Tobias Jaeuthe
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
Jorge Pérez Suárez
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
Daniel Stopp
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 Pfisterer
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
Nikunjkumar Parmar
Last position:
Senior Java Backend Developer at Questax Professionals GmbH
- Provide the Price Listing Service Team Price for all cars and vans in different markets
- Adjust market-specific requirements like taxes, government subsidies, campaigns
- Import, synchronize and store new prices for all new and existing cars in Redis datastore
- Support our product and handle on-call duties
- Daily operations, developing new features, bug fixing
- Pair programming, code reviews, mob programming
- Develop POCs for new ideas
- Maintain and extend the backend
- DevOps tasks
- Perform Kubernetes updates
- Adjust and further develop Kubernetes resources
- Develop and customize Helm charts
- Adjust and update ArgoCD
- Maintain, adjust and further develop CI/CD pipelines
Thomas Merkel
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 Mäuer
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 Rodriguez De Paz
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 Nwaiwu
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.
Smit Kevadiya
Last position:
Software Engineer (Backend & API Lead) at Surpeats
- Backend & API architecture: Independently architected a scalable Node.js backend and RESTful API to handle a high volume of transactions, ensuring robust data management for users, restaurants, and administrators.
- Microservices & infrastructure: Engineered a sophisticated database architecture using PostgreSQL with geographic query optimization. Designed and deployed a robust infrastructure with three separate microservice servers and a database server.
- Performance & scalability: Implemented Redis caching and performed SQL query optimization to improve application performance and reduce load on the database, enhancing responsiveness for real-time services.
- Security & authentication: Integrated secure payment processing via Razorpay and implemented robust middleware for JWT authentication to ensure secure transactions and data integrity.
- CI/CD & deployment: Established a robust CI/CD pipeline using Docker and GitHub Actions for automated and reliable deployment, showcasing fluency in modern DevOps practices.
Chitrung Nguyen
Last position:
Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Workpath
- Owning, designing, securing, maintaining reliability of the cloud based platform environments
- Increasing developer productivity and growing the infrastructure team horizontally and vertically to 5 engineers
- Realised infrastructure cost reduction of 50% by utilizing efficient spot instances
- Improved PE developer efficiency by 15% with survey led development process
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Statistics of experts using NGINX
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 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, Legal, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
83% (Germany: 81%)
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 30 Aug 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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
What NGINX Does
NGINX is used to handle web traffic with speed and control. Companies bring it in for reverse proxying, load balancing, static file delivery, caching, and TLS termination. It also sits in front of apps and APIs to protect origin systems and keep responses steady under load.
Common Use Cases
- Reverse proxy for web apps and APIs
- Load balancing across app servers
- Static content delivery and edge caching
- TLS and certificate handling
- Request routing and traffic shaping
These setups appear in e-commerce, media, SaaS, and internal enterprise systems. In Berlin, NGINX specialists often support teams that need stable production traffic for public sites, partner APIs, and container-based services.
Ecosystem And Tooling
Strong NGINX work goes beyond a basic config file. Professionals use server blocks, upstream groups, access controls, rewrites, logs, health checks, and cache rules, then validate changes with safe reloads and clear rollback steps.
They also work with NGINX Plus where needed, plus adjacent tools like Linux, Docker, Kubernetes ingress, DNS, and certificate automation. A good setup is documented, observable, and easy for other specialists to maintain.
When To Bring In Help
Companies usually look for freelance NGINX expertise when traffic patterns change, an old setup becomes hard to maintain, or a release needs safer routing. It is also common during migrations to cloud or Kubernetes, when teams want to move proxy rules without downtime.
- Slow or unstable production traffic
- Complex proxy or cache rules
- TLS, redirects, or security headers
- Kubernetes ingress changes
- Migration from Apache or another proxy
What Strong Specialists Deliver
Strong NGINX professionals keep configs lean and readable. They know how to avoid brittle rewrites, reduce duplicate logic, tune caching carefully, and make logs useful for debugging.
They also think about failover, header handling, timeout behavior, and how NGINX fits with upstream apps, containers, and deployment workflows. The result is a setup that is fast, predictable, and easy to operate.
Berlin Collaboration
Berlin teams often need specialists who can work with product, platform, and operations groups at the same time. Remote delivery is common for config work, reviews, and rollout planning, while on-site sessions help when a live system needs careful change control.
English is usually enough for technical work, but clear documentation matters when several teams share the same edge layer. That is especially true for public services, startup platforms, and larger internal systems in Berlin.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about NGINX.
NGINX is usually placed in front of web apps, APIs, and services to manage traffic. It is commonly used for reverse proxying, load balancing, caching, TLS termination, and request routing. That makes it useful both for public sites and for internal service layers.
NGINX is often chosen when teams want a lean proxy and high-throughput edge layer. Apache is still a fit for some content-heavy or legacy setups, but NGINX is usually preferred for modern traffic routing, caching, and load balancing. The right choice depends on the application stack and operational habits.
A strong NGINX specialist should be comfortable with Linux, DNS, HTTP headers, TLS certificates, and log analysis. In many projects, Kubernetes ingress, Docker, and cloud networking also matter. Clear documentation and safe change management are just as important as the config itself.
You do not need a large migration before bringing in NGINX expertise. Even a small change can affect routing, caching, redirects, or certificate handling. If the setup is in production and the rules are already hard to follow, outside help is often worthwhile.
Yes, NGINX is widely used as an ingress layer in Kubernetes environments. Specialists use it to manage routing, TLS, and traffic control between services and external clients. It needs careful configuration so that updates, timeouts, and headers behave as expected.
For most NGINX tasks, remote work is enough because the main work is configuration, review, and testing. On-site time can help if a live migration needs close coordination with local teams in Berlin. The best choice depends on change risk and how many groups must approve the rollout.
Look for NGINX specialists who explain trade-offs clearly and keep the config simple. Good signs are safe reload habits, clean logging, solid header handling, and a plan for rollback. They should also show how the setup will be maintained after the change.
NGINX Open Source covers the core proxy, caching, and routing use cases, while NGINX Plus adds commercial features and support. Some companies need the extra capabilities for visibility, resilience, or policy control. A good specialist can tell you whether the open source version is enough for your case.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects is 91 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 727 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects, 83% 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 18 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 (26%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Media and Entertainment (53%), and Automotive (42%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (89%), and Quality Assurance (53%).
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