
OpenTelemetry Experts in Berlin
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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
Jorge N.
Last position:
Senior Developer at SafeXSmart KI Solutions UG
AI Platform Backend – Senior Developer
Brought in to design and build a backend for an AI platform from scratch, including multi-provider LLM orchestration and real-time infrastructure for AI influencer personas at scale.
Tasks and responsibilities
- Architecture and implementation of a multi-LLM orchestration layer with Semantic Kernel to integrate GPT-4 and other providers for core platform logic and AI influencer personas, reducing model-switching overhead by abstracting provider APIs behind a single interface.
- Design and development of a backend from scratch in C# / .NET 10, including domain modeling with DDD, a versioned RESTful API layer, and cloud infrastructure setup on Azure.
- Built a real-time chat infrastructure with Server-Sent Events (SSE), message persistence, and delivery guarantees for live operation of AI influencer personas at scale.
- Developed a media management service with integration of cloud object storage for upload and retrieval of influencer-generated content.
- Created an integration and unit test suite with data seeding for reliable regression testing across all core platform flows, significantly reducing production error rates.
Tools and technologies: C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Python, TypeScript, MySQL, Semantic Kernel, EF Core, Minimal APIs, LLM Orchestration, Prompt Engineering, Agentic AI, Generative AI, AI-Assisted Engineering, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI API, Ollama, Redis, Azure, Azure Container Apps, Azure Database for MySQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, Clean Architecture, Vertical Slice Architecture, CQRS, Domain-Driven Design, REST API, xUnit, Integration Testing, Unit Testing, Jira, Confluence, Scrum
Hamza K.
Last position:
Academic Research Contributor in Health Sector (Volunteer)
- Acted as technical consultant to optimize multi-layer ensemble models combining ResNet, CNN-BiGRU-Attention, and XGBoost.
- Guided implementation of a Logistic Regression meta-learner to solve class imbalance problems, achieving 92.86% accuracy and 0.9644 AUC on PTB-XL and Chapman-Shaoxing datasets.
Qaiser A.
Last position:
Freelance Lead DevOps Engineer at Schwarz Gruppe Produktion
Bootstrapping a CloudOps team and building a multi-cloud provider backend for a low-code Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with env zero
Introducing user story mapping, ADRs, milestones, and backlog management
Designing and developing core APIs, setting up CI/CD pipelines, OpenTofu/Terraform scripts
Representing and communicating the team with third-party stakeholders (e.g. env zero)
(Cross-)team coaching on DevOps, software design, Terraform, Golang, and agile practices
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.
Shriya S.
Last position:
Product Manager at passify
- Leading the setup of Passify’s internal automation and risk management portal, connecting workflows across teams through SharePoint and Power Automate.
- Moderating retrospective workshops and creating PRDs and design tickets during PDLC.
- Supporting ISO 27001 documentation and compliance, focusing on customer support, user registration, and internal communication processes.
- Helping align design, development, and operations in a modular design cycle, ensuring each release meets both business and user needs.
- Contributing to feature planning and validation for subcontractor flows, training dashboards, and terminal portal improvements.
Amogha S.
Last position:
Senior Product Manager - OS, platform, IAM at Aleph Alpha GmbH
- Leading the product lifecycle for sovereign AI platform and operating system teams for enterprise & government clients and internal stakeholders (infra, solution delivery, support, revenue)
- Built and scaled the platform from a 200-user beta to a full rollout of 70K+ members at the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), secured with ISO 42001 and EU AI Act compliance
- Architected the shift to a multi-tenant shared inference, increasing GPU cluster utilization from 20% to 85% and reducing infrastructure cost-to-serve by 40% for SaaS clients
- Shipped model quantization, allowing clients to run advanced LLMs on legacy hardware (A100s GPUs) instead of the H100s, saving upwards of 70% cost per enquiry
- Abstracted complex Helm configurations into a dynamic model manager, reducing the time to install or swap models by ~80%
- Killed an expensive move to build own dashboard service, pivoting to an API-first data strategy that clients can consume directly and saving €100Ks in opex and capex
- Built a safety-first agent marketplace and control plane lighthouse project for a Tier-1 bank, allowing internal teams to deploy autonomous agents within strict regulatory guardrails
Kalpesh P.
Last position:
Intern Java Developer at Unzer GmbH
- Developed a Proof of Concept for distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry within a microservices architecture, enhancing system observability and reducing mean-time-to-resolution for issues.
- Built and maintained backend services using Java and Spring Boot, ensuring high reliability and performance for payment transaction workflows.
- Implemented comprehensive automated testing with JUnit and Mockito, achieving 95% test coverage to ensure code quality and maintainability.
- Gained insight into payment transaction workflows, validating end-to-end system reliability and gaining domain knowledge in financial processes.
- Tech used: Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST API, Kafka, Grafana, Datadog, Docker, MongoDB
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Statistics of experts using OpenTelemetry
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
12 years

Position duration
1.4 years

Positions per freelancer
9

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Education

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
57%

Certifications per freelancer
1

Most common languages
German, English, Hindi

Speak two or more languages
100%
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 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 OpenTelemetry
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.
OpenTelemetry 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 (63%)
- Education (50%)
- Professional Services (50%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Healthcare (38%)
- Retail (38%)
- Cosmetics (25%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Observability foundation
OpenTelemetry is an open-source framework for collecting and exporting telemetry from software systems. It standardizes traces, metrics and logs so teams can understand request paths, service health and production behavior across distributed applications. Its vendor-neutral model helps companies keep instrumentation separate from the backend that stores and analyzes the data.
What it supports
OpenTelemetry fits microservices, APIs, serverless workloads, mobile backends and event-driven systems. It captures context across service boundaries and links related signals for faster investigation.
- Trace requests across distributed services
- Collect application and infrastructure metrics
- Correlate logs with trace and span context
- Monitor asynchronous queues and scheduled workloads
Ecosystem and tooling
Strong specialists work with the OpenTelemetry SDKs, API specifications and language instrumentation libraries. They configure the OpenTelemetry Collector to receive, process and export telemetry to systems such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Zipkin, Elasticsearch or commercial observability tools. Kubernetes, Docker, service meshes and CI pipelines often form part of the surrounding setup.
When expertise matters
Companies bring in freelance expertise when instrumentation is inconsistent, traces stop at service boundaries or telemetry costs become difficult to control. Specialists can define semantic conventions, choose sampling strategies, secure collection pipelines and migrate from OpenTracing or vendor-specific agents without losing operational visibility. In Berlin, this can support both on-site teams and remote delivery across cloud-native products.
Signs of a strong specialist
A capable professional understands application code, distributed systems and the operational context behind each signal. They can explain where instrumentation belongs, validate propagation across HTTP and messaging systems, and make telemetry useful for incident response rather than simply collecting more data.
- Design a clear telemetry architecture
- Configure Collector pipelines and exporters
- Measure overhead and control data volume
- Connect traces, metrics and logs to team workflows
Delivery and collaboration
Good OpenTelemetry work produces documented instrumentation, tested Collector configurations, dashboards, alerts and practical runbooks. The right professional adapts to the existing stack, communicates trade-offs clearly and leaves teams able to extend coverage themselves. For Berlin-based projects, agree early on remote collaboration, site visits and the working language used in technical reviews.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about OpenTelemetry? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
OpenTelemetry is used to instrument applications and collect traces, metrics and logs in a consistent format. It helps teams follow requests through distributed services, detect performance problems and connect operational signals to the systems used for analysis.
OpenTelemetry combines the main ideas and community work behind OpenTracing and OpenCensus in one CNCF project. It offers a broader, unified approach to APIs, SDKs, semantic conventions and telemetry export, making it the usual direction for new vendor-neutral instrumentation.
A strong OpenTelemetry professional usually understands distributed application design, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud services and common observability backends. Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, messaging systems, HTTP propagation and CI pipelines is also valuable.
The required depth depends on the scope. Basic instrumentation may need application and telemetry knowledge, while a multi-service rollout calls for proven experience with context propagation, Collector pipelines, sampling, security and operational ownership.
OpenTelemetry is designed to connect with existing observability systems through exporters and the Collector. A specialist can introduce it gradually, preserve useful integrations and route different signals to tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger or a commercial backend.
Yes, OpenTelemetry projects are often suitable for remote collaboration because configuration, instrumentation and validation happen in code and shared environments. Berlin teams should clarify access to repositories, clusters and telemetry data, along with meeting routines and whether German or English is used.
Ask how the OpenTelemetry professional handles propagation, sampling, sensitive data, Collector failure modes and telemetry costs. Review a concrete design or rollout plan and look for tests, documentation, useful dashboards and evidence that the resulting signals support real operational decisions.
OpenTelemetry may be unnecessary for a small, self-contained service with simple monitoring needs and no distributed troubleshooting requirement. It can also create avoidable overhead when a team has not defined which questions its telemetry must answer or who will maintain the instrumentation.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenTelemetry in their recent projects is 76 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 608 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenTelemetry in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 57% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenTelemetry in their recent projects have 12 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenTelemetry in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Hindi (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenTelemetry in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (63%), and Education (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used OpenTelemetry in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (88%), and Quality Assurance (75%).
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