OpenShift Experts in Berlin
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Thomas Ãœbermeier
Last position:
Head of Engineering - Midnight at IOG / Midnight
IOG (IOHK), is one of the world's pre-eminent blockchain infrastructure research and engineering companies.
- Converted a lingering R&D project into a cohesive, production-ready testnet; built and scaled the 35-member engineering team (Core, QA, SRE) to achieve this goal.
- Defined strategic direction and aligned technology development with business objectives as a key member of the leadership.
- Optimized software development processes and implemented agile methodologies, enhancing operational efficiency and code security.
- Delivered projects in a fast-paced startup environment through effective project management and resource allocation.
Can Kocyigit
Last position:
DevOps Specialist at Eviden Germany GmbH
Manage the development release and update process for a digitized nationwide trade register project "AuRegis".
Support software in Kubernetes/OpenShift environments, configure management with Kustomize, and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins/GitLab, SonarQube, ArgoCD, and Azure.
Oversee system release of microservice architecture.
Craft the CI/CD stack from scratch with GitLab CI, integrating integration tests, dependency checks, and security measures.
Automate deployment onto OpenShift using Kustomize.
Establish infrastructure components for development, code review, and code quality analysis including SonarQube.
Integrate GitOps tools such as Kustomize and ArgoCD, leveraging both Azure and private cloud for sensitive data handling.
Develop Python scripts in Jenkins for cryptostore configuration and system packaging of products and microservices into deployable units.
Automate delivery to customers and deployment on test systems.
Craft Kustomize manifests for microservices and develop accompanying automation, treating documentation as code for clarity and reproducibility.
Serve as technical advisor for the project's first go-live and oversee further deployments as technical rollout manager.
Igor Kazarnovskiy
Last position:
Freelance Software Developer
Alexandr Kuĉun
Last position:
Senior Consultant at Insurance Industry Client
- Single-handedly executing end-to-end legacy system migration to modern stack, working autonomously with minimal supervision
- Converting stakeholder resistance into buy-in through regular demos and feedback sessions with initially skeptical internal teams
- Proactively identifying improvements to common libraries beyond project scope
Ashwin Parthasarathy
Last position:
Data Scientist at Mercor Intelligence
- Elevated LLM output reliability by engineering domain-specific prompts and evaluation logic, improving reasoning consistency across production language model workflows.
- Designed advanced coding benchmarks and validated solutions to strengthen training and evaluation datasets, improving model performance on technical problem-solving tasks.
- Designed and implemented automated evaluation frameworks for technical reasoning tasks; optimized LLM output reliability by 15% through rigorous prompt engineering and rubric-based benchmarking.
Olaf Nouvortne
Last position:
Frontend Engineer at Danaher/Hach Lange GmbH
- Developed a SolidJS frontend UI for a spectrometric water analysis system on an ARM-based embedded Linux platform
- Prototyped UI in TypeScript React/Nx with LitElements and MQTT integration
- Built production UI using SolidJS, SUID, i18next, Ajv, MQTT.js, C3.js
- Refined requirements with UX team and water analysis system engineers
- Defined and documented system architecture, MQTT message formats, frontend architecture, and development setup
- Set up frontend system from scratch, implemented domain-oriented type system, UI components, and application state
- Managed MQTT pub/sub services and schema-based message validation in frontend
- Coached two junior frontend developers
- Worked in an agile remote team using JIRA, Git, and Bitbucket
Daniel Schlieder
Last position:
DevOps Engineer / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at ComputerStack GmbH
- Provisioned a Kubernetes platform on Open Telekom Cloud CCE with comprehensive network isolation
- Built a VPC architecture with public, private, and data subnets
- Integrated managed services: RDS PostgreSQL, DCS Redis, DMS Apache Kafka
- Implemented monitoring with Cloud Eye and Log Tank Service
IMPACT: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer delivered a production-ready platform in 5 days with full network security isolation
Maurizio Fleischer
Last position:
Python Software Developer at Schönhofer Sales and Engineering GmbH
- Implemented a command line interface (CLI) for integration of REST APIs of various microservices for end users
- Centralized and simplified interaction with services through the CLI
- Implemented a REST microservice for custom data schemas based on an API-first approach
- Developed event-driven control with RabbitMQ to connect to other services
- Deployed services using Docker and Kubernetes and extended the CLI
- Managed complexity and data volume handling through the microservice
Christian Richter
Last position:
Freelance Data Engineer at Ingenieurbüro Christian Richter – Data, Cloud & Container
- Contributed to over 20 successful projects
Kalyani Kumar
Last position:
Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Bank
- Technologies: Java, React, Python, Scala, Spring Boot, JPA, microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Eureka, Prometheus, Grafana, Zookeeper
- Led the design and development of enterprise wide data warehouse platform for efficient and secure data sharing using stateless, event-driven microservices architecture
- Served as component guardian and Scrum master for three microservices, ensuring seamless integration and maintaining high data integrity
- Optimized performance through Prometheus and Grafana, achieving measurable system resilience
Mustafa Arslan
Last position:
System Administrator at Axel Springer SE
- Incident management and ticket handling (2nd-level support)
- Proactive issue detection and resolution
- Performing scheduled maintenance and system updates
- Infrastructure monitoring with Zabbix
- Remote access & management via Royal TSX
- Documenting IT incidents and solutions
- Collaborating with internal IT teams and departments
- Optimizing and automating internal IT processes
- Creating and managing snapshots of virtual machines in vCenter for backup and recovery of critical systems
Dirk Ulrich
Last position:
Developer at Future Training & Consulting GmbH
Training course with exam for Spring Certified Professional.
- Environment: Spring Boot 3, Spring Framework 6, IntelliJ
Fares Mahmoud
Last position:
Software Engineer at DXC Technology
- Developed and maintained backend services for Q8's Digital Cards and Mobility Platform in Java and Spring Boot.
- Designed scalable, multi-tenant microservices with API-first principles using Swagger.
- Implemented asynchronous messaging with Apache ActiveMQ to decouple services and improve resilience.
- Managed multi-tenant architecture with data isolation and configurable tenant logic.
- Ensured secure data handling with Spring Security and PostgreSQL, supported by Liquibase version control.
- Integrated JasperReports for generating PDF reports based on user and business needs.
- Followed Agile practices and implemented thorough unit and integration testing.
Robert Hänsel
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at Zalando SE
Henning Petersen
Last position:
Backend Systems Development at Deutsche Bank/DWS/Morgenfund
- Developed backend systems for the DWS Investment App, a white-label investment solution (robo-advisor), and an investment solution for institutional clients.
- Java 8-17, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, OpenAPI 3.0, JPA, JDBI, Oracle, Hazelcast, JXLS, Apache POI, Apache PDFBox, Apache Kafka & Avro, Active MQ, Elasticsearch, React Native, Spock Test, IntelliJ IDEA, Kubernetes, Helm, Microservices/Netflix-Stack, TeamCity, Splunk.
- Kanban team, continuous integration.
- Migrated existing applications from Deutsche Bank's private cloud environment to Azure as part of a carve-out.
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Statistics of experts using OpenShift
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
17 years (Germany: 19 years)
Position duration
2.6 years (Germany: 1.8 years)
Positions per freelancer
9 (Germany: 14)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
80% (Germany: 88%)
Master's degree or higher
20% (Germany: 48%)
Certifications per freelancer
1 (Germany: 4)
Most common languages
English, German, Turkish
Speak two or more languages
87% (Germany: 96%)
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 OpenShift
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
OpenShift in practice
OpenShift is Red Hat’s Kubernetes platform for running containerized applications with stronger defaults for security, networking, and operations. Companies use it to build internal platforms, ship services faster, and standardize deployments across teams.
Typical work
- Cluster setup and platform upgrades
- Application deployment with routes, projects, and builds
- CI/CD integration for repeatable releases
- Security hardening, access control, and policy work
- Troubleshooting workloads, nodes, and storage
Ecosystem skills
Strong professionals usually know Kubernetes, Docker or Podman, Helm, operators, YAML, and Git-based delivery. They also work with image registries, monitoring, logging, ingress, persistent storage, and shell tooling around OpenShift and OpenShift Container Platform.
When freelancers help
Companies bring in freelance expertise for migrations, platform rescue, upgrades, and short-term delivery spikes. Berlin teams often need help aligning local delivery with remote product teams, especially when OpenShift supports regulated or customer-facing systems.
What good specialists do
Good specialists look past the UI and understand how OpenShift behaves under load, during rollout, and after failures. They document changes clearly, keep deployments reproducible, and know how to separate application issues from cluster issues.
Choosing the right fit
Look for hands-on work with OpenShift clusters, not only general Kubernetes knowledge. The best experts can explain network policies, operators, storage classes, and rollout strategy in plain language, and they can work with both platform teams and application teams.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about OpenShift — answered in short.
OpenShift is used to run containerized applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with stronger built-in controls for security, networking, and release flow. Companies choose it for internal platforms, application modernization, and standard deployment patterns across many teams.
OpenShift builds on Kubernetes but adds opinionated tooling, tighter defaults, and a fuller platform experience around builds, routes, image handling, and access control. Plain Kubernetes can be lighter and more flexible, while OpenShift often suits teams that want more structure and less assembly work.
Bring in OpenShift specialists when you need a migration, an upgrade, cluster troubleshooting, or help building a platform team’s delivery model. Freelancers are also useful when an existing setup works, but releases, security, or operations need to be tightened quickly.
A strong OpenShift professional usually brings Kubernetes, Linux, containers, YAML, CI/CD, and scripting skills. In many projects, they also need Helm, operators, registry management, observability tooling, and a solid grasp of networking and storage.
Not every task needs deep platform architecture, but OpenShift work does need real hands-on experience if the cluster is live or customer-facing. For smaller tasks, a specialist who knows deployment and troubleshooting may be enough; for migrations and platform design, broader experience matters.
Yes. Many OpenShift specialists work well remotely as long as they can access the cluster, logs, and delivery systems, and join the right technical meetings. Berlin companies often combine remote work with occasional on-site time for kickoff, incident handling, or stakeholder alignment.
A good OpenShift specialist can explain decisions clearly, identify whether a problem sits in the app, the cluster, or the infrastructure, and leave behind clean documentation. Ask for examples of upgrades, incident recovery, and repeatable delivery work, not just a list of tools.
Yes, OpenShift is often chosen for enterprise systems that need role control, policy enforcement, auditability, and consistent deployment patterns. It fits especially well when multiple teams share the same platform and need clear boundaries without losing speed.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenShift in their recent projects is 99 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 793 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenShift in their recent projects, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 20% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenShift in their recent projects have 17 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenShift in their recent projects are English (93%), German (87%), and Turkish (13%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenShift in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (40%), and Professional Services (33%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenShift in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (87%), and Project Management (53%).
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