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Ali Aminian

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Enterprise Software Architect | Cloud, Integration & AI Platforms

Frankfurt
Ali Aminian

Last position:

Platform Engineer & Software Architect at Yatta GmbH

  • Architected the Yatta Integration Layer – a config-driven integration platform on Java 25, Spring Boot 4 (WebFlux), Temporal, gRPC and Kafka, enabling new third-party integrations (e.g. AVS fulfillment) via declarative JSON configs with zero code changes.
  • Designed and implemented Tink integration with 0Auth IBAN verification to enhance fraud prevention and account validation workflows with Adyen payByBank.
  • Architected and implemented an OpenFGA-based authorization model for centralized management of users, groups, and fine-grained access control in the vendor portal.
  • Architected and led delivery of the Yatta API Gateway platform using GraphQL Federation, providing a unified enterprise API layer across distributed microservices with centralized authentication, authorization and request orchestration.
  • Replaced NGINX + NLB with Istio service mesh and AWS ALB; rolled out WAF, OAuth (Cognito), IP whitelisting and RBAC across environments.
  • Migrated CDC from Confluent Cloud connectors to a self-hosted Kafka Connect + Debezium stack, reducing operational cost by ~80% across multiple environments.
  • Implemented the Transactional Outbox pattern with Debezium for reliable, exactly-once event publishing to Kafka with Avro and Schema Registry.
  • Migrated dunning/payment-recovery workflows from Airflow to Temporal, achieving 99.9% reliability for settlement handling.
  • Optimised Apache Airflow with deferrable sensors to handle 1000+ concurrent DAG runs without scaling the worker pool.
  • Refactored a monolithic Terraform codebase into 3 modular projects, cutting deployment time by ~45%.
  • Stood up full observability with OpenTelemetry, Tempo, Prometheus and Loki; automated dev/staging/prod with ArgoCD, Image Updater and Helm.
  • Collaborated with product, operations and engineering stakeholders to define scalable platform architecture and integration standards aligned with long-term business and operational goals.
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Tan Pham

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DevOps & Fullstack Engineer

Hanau
Tan Pham

Last position:

DevOps Engineer in the DevOps Team at Rise-World

  • Implementation of specified DevOps solutions to automate infrastructure (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible) on-premises datacenter (Ovirt, Proxmox, Ceph Cluster, MinIO) and private cloud.
  • Administration, configuration and implementation of CI/CD DevOps pipelines (GitLab, GitFlow) to support development process (Artifactory, Prometheus, Istio, service mesh, Helm Chart, OpenShift (Red Hat Enterprise) / Kubernetes cluster), Red Hat Satellite.
  • Administration, setup, monitoring and patching of Linux infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise for Dev, Test and QA.
  • Use of Scrum and Kanban methods.
  • Administration, configuration and implementation of security standards for deploying on Dev, Test, QA and Prod stages of the new ePA applications.
  • Development of new plugins and add-ons needed on current infrastructure.
  • Database support.
  • Data analytics support (Python, Spark, Pandas, Power BI, Splunk Enterprise).
  • Implementation of best practices for DevSecOps and BizDevOps using GitOps (ArgoCD), Streamlit framework, Semaphore Ansible UI.
  • Configuration and testing of iperf, uperf, sysbench using benchmark-operator for external source data and IoT/MDM devices, creating reports via ELK / OpenSearch.
  • Building a new Databricks platform to collect and analyze big data from different sources and IoT devices into Hadoop framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Power BI, Apache Airflow).
  • Building backend data aggregation and processing to automate configuration deployment between different OpenShift clusters and big data framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Apache Spark, PostgreSQL, Django 2, Ansible Automation, Jira JSM).
  • Building a new ML pipeline platform using Kubeflow, TensorFlow, KServe.
  • Data extraction, transformation and loading from different data sources including structured and unstructured data to analytic DWH / big data cluster using Python, Pandas, Polars, Power BI, Django backend and PostgreSQL.
  • Setup of new DevOps Test and QA HashiCorp Vault cluster for PKI and IAM.
  • Configuration and testing of automated patching based on CVSS score, SIEM-integrated CVEs.
  • Use of Nexpose and InsightVM to scan vulnerability events in network, host, container and application.
  • Design and implementation of secure and scalable AWS architectures including VPC, EC2, S3, RDS and Route53 and similar setups on Azure and GCP.
  • Automated system provisioning and deployment using CloudFormation templates.
  • Configuration of IAM roles, policies and permissions to ensure secure access control.
  • Patch management, backup automation and disaster recovery setup on AWS infrastructure.
  • Monitoring and optimization of system performance using AWS CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor.
  • Support of VMware services (vSphere, Aria, Horizon) and the virtual desktop environment.
  • Development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD and AWS CodePipeline with interface to Nutanix.
  • Configuration of AWS CloudWatch to monitor application performance and system events.
  • Planning and execution of migration of on-premises applications to AWS cloud platforms.
  • Deployment of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in AWS environments.
  • Deployment of internal software packages between availability zones using AWS CodeDeploy.
  • Building and deploying ML models using Scikit-learn, XGBoost and Spark MLlib including hyperparameter tuning, model evaluation and production deployment.
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Ingo Dettling

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Analytics

Frankfurt am Main
Ingo Dettling

Last position:

Analytics at BaFin - Federal Financial Supervisory Authority Frankfurt

  • Introduction of methods for developing and automated deployment of cloud-native software and machine learning applications in OpenShift clusters
  • Development of various programs in Python
  • Technologies: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Kustomize, ArgoCD, Tekton, Docker, PodMan, Airflow, IntelliJ, PyCharm, Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Python
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Illia S

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Front-End Developer

Frankfurt am Main
Illia S

Last position:

Front-End Developer at Tangram Internet Services GmbH

  • IAUP (Interregional Academy of Personnel Management) commissioned the development of a distance learning system for its secondary school subdivision.
  • Development of the website [link]
  • Development of a billing system and integration with various payment systems
  • Development of a distance learning system based on the open source Moodle solution
  • Integration of the distance learning system into the user office on the [link] website
  • Front-end: Vue.js v2, Nuxt.js, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS
  • Back-end: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), PHP Framework Laravel, Redis, Swagger, MySQL 8.x, PayPal API
  • DevOps: Docker, CI/CD, GIT
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Jochen Hinrichsen

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Managing Director

Eschborn
Jochen Hinrichsen

Last position:

DevSecOps Expert at DB InfraGO

  • Central build and delivery for 20+ applications, 100+ pipelines/day, 700+ GitLab projects
  • Build pipelines for Go, Java and JavaScript
  • Provisioning of 100+ components
  • Quality assurance via GitLab Code Quality and SonarQube
  • Checks for dependencies, licensing and vulnerabilities
  • Release creation via Jira and ServiceNow
  • SBOM, Supply Chain Security, distroless images
  • PoC GitLab Runner: Nomad vs. Kubernetes
  • Technologies: Artifactory, buildah, GitLab Premium, Go, Gradle, Jenkins, Mend, Podman
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Stefan Dreßler

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System Architect & Full Stack Software Developer

Bad Vilbel
Stefan Dreßler

Last position:

Managing Director and System Architect at HelpSpace GmbH

  • Development, operation, and sales of the HelpSpace helpdesk software
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Artur Sopelnik

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Senior Consultant

Frankfurt am Main
Artur Sopelnik

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Senior Consultant at MHP - A Porsche Company

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Robert Barisic

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Lead Developer & Consultant

Friedrichsdorf
Robert Barisic

Last position:

Lead Developer & Consultant at BIOCOM AG

  • Solo full-stack developer for upgrading a Rails 4 legacy application to Rails 7, including deployment setup via Capistrano and NGINX configuration

  • Delivered a custom admin dashboard with ChartJS reports, PDF generator and CSV batch importer via Administrate

  • Implemented new features for reporting, import, data management and GDPR compliance, redesigned core components

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Statistics of experts using NGINX

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

23 years (Germany: 20 years)

Position duration

4.1 years (Germany: 3.1 years)

Positions per freelancer

18 (Germany: 14)

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Transportation

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Human Resources

Bachelor's degree or higher

100% (Germany: 81%)

Master's degree or higher

29% (Germany: 42%)

Certifications per freelancer

6 (Germany: 2)

Most common languages

German, English, Russian

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 98%)

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Frankfurt 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 Frankfurt using NGINX

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 884 €
Germany avg. 766 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 880 €
Germany median 760 €

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 sits in front of web apps and APIs to handle traffic efficiently. It is used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, web server, and cache layer for sites that need stability under pressure.

Typical work

  • Reverse proxy setup for web apps and APIs
  • Load balancing and health checks
  • TLS termination and HTTP/2 configuration
  • Static content delivery and caching
  • Rate limiting and request routing

Skills around it

Strong NGINX specialists understand HTTP, DNS, TLS, and Linux networking. They read config files carefully, debug headers and upstream behavior, and know when to use NGINX Plus, OpenResty, or related tooling.

When to bring in help

Companies usually look for freelance expertise when traffic grows, an edge layer needs redesign, or an outage points to bad proxy rules. In Frankfurt, this often matters for finance, SaaS, media, and other teams that need low-latency delivery and clear handover with local or remote experts.

What good specialists deliver

Good professionals leave behind clean config, safe rollback steps, and simple docs. They test redirects, compression, caching, and access rules so the setup works the same in staging and production.

Signs of strong NGINX work

  • Clear separation between routing, security, and app concerns
  • Config that is readable and easy to maintain
  • Careful handling of timeouts, buffers, and upstreams
  • Practical logging that helps operations teams troubleshoot
  • Smooth collaboration with backend, DevOps, and platform experts
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Frequently asked questions

Not sure where to start with NGINX? These answers cover the essentials.

NGINX is commonly used as a reverse proxy, web server, load balancer, and caching layer. It helps control how traffic reaches web apps and APIs, and it is often placed at the edge of a system to improve performance and reliability.

NGINX is usually chosen for fast request handling, proxying, and flexible routing rules. Apache is often compared with it for web serving, while a cloud load balancer may handle a smaller slice of the job and leave more of the application-layer logic to NGINX.

NGINX open source covers many common needs such as proxying, caching, and TLS termination. NGINX Plus can matter when a team wants extra features such as advanced monitoring, active health checks, or API-driven control, but the right choice depends on the setup and support model.

A strong NGINX freelancer usually knows Linux, HTTP, DNS, TLS, and basic networking well. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes ingress, observability tools, and application delivery patterns is also useful because NGINX often sits between infrastructure and application teams.

If you only need a simple redirect or static site, a generalist may be enough. Bring in a NGINX specialist when you need layered routing, caching rules, strict security headers, zero-downtime changes, or help diagnosing a traffic issue that spans several services.

Yes, most NGINX work can be done remotely because the main tasks are configuration, testing, and troubleshooting. In Frankfurt, on-site collaboration is mainly useful when access to local infrastructure, internal networks, or cross-team workshops is important.

Look for clear examples of production work with NGINX, not just general server administration. Good signs are clean configuration, careful handling of redirects and timeouts, and a methodical approach to debugging logs, upstreams, and TLS issues.

NGINX specialists are often brought in to fix slow responses, unstable routing, broken TLS setup, or confusing proxy chains. They also help with performance tuning, security rules, and preparing the edge layer for growth or migration.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects is 111 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 884 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 29% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 4.1 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Russian (33%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (67%), and Transportation (56%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Project Management (56%).

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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