NGINX Experts in Munich
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Tamás E.
Last position:
Senior Software Developer / Tech Lead at NDA (defense / OSINT)
- Designing the audit logging framework
- Implementing APIs for developers to integrate in their codebase
- Implementing ingestion pipeline, database query layer and UI for browsing the audit events
- Improving stability and reliability of the backend system
Ronald M.
Last position:
DevOps Consultant at M.it services & systems GmbH
- Adaptation, optimization, configuration, and administration of a multi-stage GitLab instance with over 250 users
- Setup, adaptation, expansion, and optimization of infrastructure, configuration, and monitoring
- Provisioning of services and handover to production
- System environment: DependencyTrack, GitLab, Grafana, Hedgedoc, Kubernetes, Oauth2 Proxy, Openstack, Prometheus, Syseleven
Thomas H.
Last position:
Senior MLOps, DevOps Engineer at Trianel Energy
- Build and operate an end-to-end MLOps platform on Azure ML and Kubernetes (Kubeflow) for the automated deployment, monitoring, and scaling of forecasting models (including Temporal Fusion Transformer, Informer, Autoformer).
- Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for the full ML lifecycle – from resource provisioning (Terraform), data transformation (Hugging Face Datasets, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA cluster) through training and evaluation to model registry and endpoint deployment.
- Integrate MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, performance monitoring, and automated registration in the Azure Model Registry.
- Develop and containerize PyTorch training jobs (Azure Notebook, Jupyter Notebooks) for price and time series forecasting (PFC models) with automatic rollout via Azure ML Endpoints and REST/gRPC interfaces, Docker containerization, secured with OAuth 2.0.
- Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms (Prometheus, MLflow Metrics), log centralization, and cost monitoring.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and model deployment using Terraform, Helm, and Azure CLI; connect to existing market data systems and event pipelines.
- Migrate existing workloads and databases (IONOS → Azure, MongoDB) with integration into central MLOps workflows and internal networks.
- Extend the platform with LLM-based tools (LangChain, LangServe) to integrate GPT-based analysis modules into existing Spring Boot services for market anomaly detection and automated reports.
- Analyze and architect a software solution to process large volumes of data efficiently (>3000 messages/sec.) (market data store).
- Spring Boot / Java 21 container development with RabbitMQ for distributing stock market data via MongoDB (Kubernetes) with fast storage of data in Redis RMaps, deduplication, forwarding messages to Read Model queues, and building Read Models for UI display in MongoDB.
- Integration of RESTHeart to create a REST API for MongoDB.
- Build an Angular frontend to simplify data queries and master data maintenance.
- Agentic coding with remote and local LLMs (Claude Sonnet, Ollama Qwen) and MCP servers.
- Develop Python scripts for transforming and cleaning incoming stock market data (Pandas, scikit-learn).
Damian Åš.
Last position:
CTO at FRATCH.IO
- Managed end-to-end product development, overseeing the successful delivery of technical solutions.
- Led and mentored a team of highly specialised technical professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
- Oversaw the hiring process to build a talented and dedicated team.
- Built a scalable and robust backend microservices system from scratch, designing and extending it to meet evolving business needs.
- Ensured the system's high availability with a 99.99% up time, implementing resilient architecture and monitoring mechanisms.
- Developed and implemented technical strategies, aligning them with business goals and objectives.
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
Vitaliy R.
Last position:
DevOps GitOps (temp) at Signal Iduna
- Responsible for Openshift/Kubernetes on-prem administration and developer support.
- Developed URP infrastructure automation with Python, Ansible, Kustomize and ArgoCD, Argo Workflow/Events stack.
- Wrote smoke and load tests for URP infrastructure utilizing Python, Kustomize and ApplicationSets.
- Helped to set up and deploy URP infrastructure in Google Cloud, GKE.
- Set up monitoring for URP and ArgoCD stack with Splunk Cloud.
- Performed system administration tasks across RedHat Linux, Kubernetes/Openshift, ArgoCD, GitLab, Bitbucket Enterprise, Kafka and MongoDB.
Tobias N.
Last position:
Enterprise & Solutions Architect
- Building an independent enterprise IT setup — cloud strategy, network, AWS landing zone, security requirements, contract negotiations.
- Migration of all applications; avoiding high contractual penalties for the client.
- Onboarding and coordination o...
Daniel R.
Last position:
Software Engineer at DB InfraGO AG
- Development of dynamic web components for displaying KPIs, intelligent map applications, and operational process analysis tools
- Angular 18+
- Leaflet, MapLibre
- NestJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- PostgreSQL, GraphQL, RabbitMQ
- Gitea, Jenkins, Docker
Christian S.
Last position:
Data-Scientist/AI Engineer at The Marcom Engine GmbH & Co. KG
- Concept creation and implementing AI Agents in AWS Cloud
- Continuously alignment with stakeholders
- Collaborate with DevOps
- Technologies: Git, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Python/ML, Streamlit, Deno/typescript, AWS SAM, AWS Bedrock, AWS Lambda, AWS Dynamo DB, AWS S3, AWS Event Bridge etc.
Daniel D.
Last position:
Senior Developer at AboutYou GmbH
- Integration of payment methods and optimization of the checkout process
- Coordination of interdisciplinary teams, resulting in a 30% increase in user retention
Rupesh K.
Last position:
IT Baseline Compliance Consultant at Consultant
- Baseline compliance verification against MAS audit findings
- Building technical architecture concept for 30 technologies to build hardening standard artifacts
- Identifying and building automation possibilities for given technologies based on CIS
- Building the standard baseline configuration based on internal security standard
- Responsible for building Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) architecture artifacts based on Azure cloud platform
- Responsible for RFQ and RFP for different CNAPP solutions (Qualys Total Cloud, CrowdStrike, Azure Security Center)
- Supporting compliance verification and validation via automated scripts for a sample population of IT devices and instances
- Responsible for complete vulnerability management lifecycle using Nexpose, remediation, reporting and integration of results with Splunk, HPSM and Tableau
- Audit support for MAS
Christoph N.
Last position:
Technical Advisor at Leximate
- Set up AI-first Legal-Tech platform using latest LLM models and agentic development workflows.
- Launched MVP in under 5 days from idea to code.
- Setup AI-first development workflows "from call to shipped feature".
Daniel C.
Last position:
Founder & Managing Director at BotCraft GmbH
- Building the company with a focus on connectivity for IIoT and Industry 4.0, iRPA/process automation, advanced robotics and smart systems, sensors and services
- Project management and software architecture for IoT gateway development (since 2020) with protocol translation, IT/OT convergence and GRC
- Developing RPA bots for automating and monitoring industrial processes with an agent-based AI approach (since 2020)
- Implementing unsupervised clustering and anomaly detection for time series data in big data streaming pipelines (since 2021)
- Introducing a Docker-based release train for OTA updates with DevSecOps and CI/CD (since 2018)
Bela B.
Last position:
Full Stack Lead Developer, Backend Architect at Telefonica (O2)
The software supports the complete planning and approval of antennas for mobile telephony.
The system was implemented using an event-driven microservice architecture for cloud-native deployment with Quarkus on the backend, Kafka for communication, and Angular for the frontend. Services run on Kubernetes in Google Cloud. A special challenge was synchronizing with the legacy system still used by some users.
Ilia K.
Last position:
Senior Full-Stack Java Developer / Team Lead at Diva-e Platforms GmbH
- Led a development team delivering microservices using Java Spring Boot.
- Implemented asynchronous messaging via Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Led team of 6 developers, improving code quality (SonarQube: 92%→ 98%).
- Reduced deployment time by 70% via optimized Jenkins + TeamCity pipelines.
- Built REST and gRPC APIs for large-scale integrations.
- Improved scalability and reliability of cloud-hosted microservices.
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Statistics of experts using NGINX
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years (Germany: 20 years)
Position duration
2.6 years (Germany: 3.1 years)
Positions per freelancer
12 (Germany: 14)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Retail
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Operations, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
86% (Germany: 82%)
Master's degree or higher
64% (Germany: 44%)
Doctorate
21% (Germany: 7%)
Certifications per freelancer
1 (Germany: 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 Munich 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 Munich 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%)
- Banking and Finance (65%)
- Retail (59%)
- Manufacturing (53%)
- Telecommunication (41%)
- Automotive (35%)
- Media and Entertainment (35%)
- Professional Services (35%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Role in web delivery
NGINX is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy used to deliver websites, APIs and applications. It handles HTTP traffic, terminates TLS, serves static files and routes requests to backend services. Companies also use the open-source nginx project and the commercial NGINX Plus edition for advanced traffic management.
Core capabilities
- Configure reverse proxies for application servers and APIs
- Balance traffic across services and availability zones
- Add caching, compression, redirects and rate limiting
- Terminate TLS and manage secure HTTP connections
- Serve static assets with low overhead
Strong professionals understand request flow, headers, upstream health checks and failure handling. They can tune worker processes, connection limits and caching rules without creating hidden reliability risks.
Ecosystem and tooling
NGINX commonly sits in front of Node.js, PHP-FPM, Java, Python and .NET services. It connects with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud load balancers, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, while observability often relies on access logs, Prometheus-compatible metrics and centralized logging. NGINX Ingress Controller extends familiar routing concepts into Kubernetes environments.
When expertise matters
- A monolith is being split into services behind one public endpoint
- Traffic needs controlled routing during a migration or release
- Slow responses point to caching or upstream configuration issues
- TLS, headers or rate limits need a careful security review
- Kubernetes ingress rules have become difficult to maintain
Freelance expertise is useful when internal teams need a focused configuration review, migration plan or production rollout. In Munich, specialists may work with local product, manufacturing and technology teams on-site, remotely or in a hybrid setup.
Deliverables to expect
A project may produce version-controlled NGINX configuration, a tested routing design, TLS and security settings, cache policies, deployment automation and operational runbooks. A capable professional documents assumptions, rollback steps and dependencies instead of treating configuration as a collection of ad hoc directives.
For teams in Munich, clear communication in English is common in international environments, while German may support closer collaboration with local stakeholders. Remote work is practical when logs, staging access and deployment ownership are well defined.
Signs of strong expertise
Strong NGINX professionals explain why a directive belongs in a server or location block and how it affects real requests. They test redirects, large uploads, timeouts, WebSocket connections, failures and cache invalidation before production changes. They also distinguish an NGINX issue from a slow application, network problem or poorly designed upstream service.
Look for experience with security hardening, observability, infrastructure as code and incident response. The best fit can adapt open-source nginx configurations to the surrounding stack and assess when NGINX Plus, a cloud service or another proxy is the better choice.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about NGINX.
NGINX is used as a web server, reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP cache. Companies place it in front of applications to route requests, serve static content, terminate TLS and control traffic between clients and backend services.
NGINX uses an event-driven model that is well suited to many concurrent connections, static content and reverse-proxy workloads. Apache HTTP Server offers a broad module ecosystem and familiar per-directory configuration, so the better choice depends on application compatibility, team skills and operational needs.
A strong NGINX specialist usually understands Linux, DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, HTTP, containers and cloud networking. Experience with Kubernetes Ingress, Terraform, CI/CD, observability and application performance makes troubleshooting and delivery more effective.
A NGINX project needs enough practical experience to match its risk and scope. A simple static site may need configuration support, while an internet-facing platform with complex routing, caching, security rules or Kubernetes traffic needs a professional who can test failure modes and plan rollback.
NGINX can route Kubernetes traffic through an NGINX Ingress Controller and can also run as a containerized proxy. The responsible professional should understand Ingress resources, service discovery, annotations, TLS secrets, scaling and the operational differences between cluster-level and external traffic management.
Yes, NGINX work is often suitable for remote collaboration from Munich when the specialist has secure access to configuration repositories, logs, staging systems and deployment workflows. On-site sessions can still help with incident reviews, architecture workshops or coordination with teams that manage physical infrastructure.
Ask an NGINX professional to explain request flow, upstream behavior, timeout choices, cache rules and rollback steps in plain language. Review whether the configuration is version controlled, tested, documented and monitored, and check that security headers, TLS settings and failure handling fit the application.
NGINX is available as the open-source nginx project and as NGINX Plus, a commercial edition from F5. NGINX Plus adds enterprise features and support, but the right option depends on required traffic-management capabilities, support expectations, licensing considerations and the existing infrastructure.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects is 103 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 821 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 64% hold at least a Master's degree, and 21% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects are German (100%), English (94%), and Spanish (18%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (65%), and Retail (59%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NGINX in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (82%), and Project Management (71%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used NGINX
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