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Jörg T.
Last position:
Consultant, Requirements Engineer and Database Expert
Project – Evaluation and development of databases for a new product line for a measuring equipment manufacturer
- Current-state analysis
- Requirements analysis of the data storage layer
- Writing benchmark tests
- Design of the new database schema
- Database migrations
- Development of audit logging and Part11
- Creation of backup and recovery concepts
- Design of the persistence layer API
- Writing unit tests
- Creating requirements in Azure
Tools: C#, Visual Studio 2022, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Git, RestSharp, WebServer, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, SQLite, MinIO, Podman, Docker, DataGrip, SQL Management Studio, HeidiDB, pgAdmin
Shamaila M.
Last position:
Founder/Kubernetes and Cloud Architect at Kubekanvas
- Developed browser based platform for kubernetes no-code deployment and cluster management
- Developed CLI in Typescript to deploy the resources in the cluster without leaving the browser UI.
- Implemented DevSecOps pipelines: image scanning, SBOM, policy enforcement, supply-chain security and used Kyverno. Implemented IAM integration for the command line utility tool.
- Designed role & permission models for Keycloak, oAuth/OIDC, social login flows.
- Used LLM to convert user intent into the diagram.
- Worked on integration with multiple Sovereign Cloud like stackIt, Hetzner, CIVO, UpCloud plus public clouds like AWS, GCP, Azure
- The technology stack includes Java, SpringBoot, Kubernetes, OpenAI, Kubernetes multi-tenancy using vCluster, Karpenter, RBAC for CLI, Helm, React
Karen M.
Last position:
Personal AI Engineering Project — Croky AI at Crocky AI
Product:
- Built a production-ready AI platform for generating brand-aware marketing images and videos from product data, user requirements, and uploaded media.
- Own the platform architecture, technical roadmap, API design, security, deployment workflow, operational reliability, and model-provider strategy.
- Developed the core platform in .NET and built supporting AI and workflow prototypes in Python, applying language-independent API contracts and structured interfaces between services and model providers.
- Implemented reliable background processing with RabbitMQ, persisted workflow state, idempotent handling, retries, failure recovery, logging, secure storage, authorization, and credit accounting.
- Made pragmatic build-versus-buy and model-routing decisions based on reliability, latency, cost, and maintainability rather than novelty.
Agent Orchestration & RAG Systems
- Built and compared agent workflows using Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, and LangChain, including tool use, conditional routing, clarification steps, state management, and hand-offs between agents.
- Implemented reusable .NET components for agents, prompts, tools, model providers, structured responses, and retrieval with pyvector, making it easier to change AI providers without rewriting the core workflow.
Vicenco K.
Last position:
Process and consulting services for a public-sector client in the field of internal security
- Standardization and further development
- Application monitoring
- Incident handling
- Change management
- Interface and integration operations
- Testing, acceptance and transition to operations
Harold T.
Last position:
CPU Watcher — Cloud-Native Monitoring Application at SEUYTEL
- Planned and developed a CPU monitoring application for monitoring system performance and resource utilization.
- Designed and implemented a Spring Boot backend providing a REST API for processing and exposing monitoring data.
- Developed the React frontend for presenting monitoring information in a clear and user-friendly interface.
- Integrated PostgreSQL for persistent storage and management of application data.
- Containerized the application and its services using Docker Compose.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment using Terraform on AWS.
- Structured the application as a modern, maintainable system using REST-based communication between frontend and backend.
- Designed and developed a secure, scalable CPU monitoring architecture (cpu-watcher) with a dedicated collector application that streams monitoring data to the backend, reducing direct exposure of system resources.
- Designed a secure cloud infrastructure with the database isolated within a private network and OIDC-based authentication.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and integrated version-controlled CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, infrastructure changes, and application deployments.
- Designed and implemented the frontend delivery architecture using AWS CloudFront.
Stack: Spring Boot · React · PostgreSQL · REST API · Docker Compose · Terraform · AWS
Tobias M.
Last position:
Power BI Expert at MID-SIZED TRADING COMPANY FOR CLEANING TECHNOLOGY AND HYGIENE PRODUCTS
Reporting and controlling using Power BI for a production ERP system
- Analysis of ERP data and interfaces for use in Power BI dashboards
- Evaluation and migration of existing reports (e.g. Excel) to Power BI
- Development of an authorization concept for selective data access
- Documentation and training on the use and customization of Power BI dashboards
Label: Power BI, Excel, SelectLine ERP, Microsoft SQL, SQL Server Management Studio
Khalid E.
Last position:
Lead Architect & Developer at kem-consulting
Development of an agent-based governance platform for the automated assurance of EU AI Act compliance and ODA-compliant orchestration of AI services in complex enterprise environments.
Design and implementation of an agent-based "Mission Control" framework (Aletheia Conductor) for autonomous state monitoring and process control.
Development of "Compliance-as-Code" (CaC) solutions based on OPA/Rego for system-wide enforcement of regulatory guardrails.
Integration of TM Forum ODA standards (TMF630, TMF622, TMF642) to ensure interoperability and standardization.
Building a highly available event-driven architecture using Redpanda and CloudEvents v1.0 for near-real-time event processing.
Implementation of an audit-proof "Evidence Chain" through cryptographic linking of trace logs in preparation for automated audits.
Tech Stack: Java 21 (Quarkus Native), TypeScript (Next.js), Redpanda (Kafka API), CloudEvents v1.0, OPA (Open Policy Agent) & Rego, TimescaleDB, ZincSearch, Redis, TM Forum ODA, Git, GitHub, Clean Code Development, Like-C4.
Sercan T.
Last position:
Co-Founder & Lead Software Architect at Pflege-Pfad
- Focus: System architecture, cloud-native platforms, microservices, API design
- Product: Pflege-Pfad is a digital placement platform that directly connects relatives of people in need of care with verified care services and caregivers – without an agency and without ongoing fees.
- Business analysis & process design:
- Analysis of the German care market and identification of the key pain points of both target groups.
- Modeling of core business processes: registration, verification, care request, application, placement, and rating.
- Definition of the business model as a freemium/premium model with optional contact unlocking.
- Creation of user stories and requirements documentation for relatives, care services, and administrators.
- Design of trust and quality assurance mechanisms with document upload, admin review process, and rating system.
- Coordination with stakeholders and validation of product decisions with potential users.
- Technical implementation:
- Design and implementation of the entire platform architecture as the sole developer.
- Design and implementation of a REST API with Spring Boot and Kotlin, including JWT-based authentication.
- Development of the frontend as a single-page application with Angular 17.
- Implementation of the AWS infrastructure with EC2, RDS PostgreSQL, S3, CloudFront, and IAM.
- Document upload with AWS S3 using presigned URLs to verify care services.
- Email notifications via Resend API.
- AI-supported care service search via OpenAI API.
- Implementation of complete user flows such as registration, login, password reset, and the placement process.
- Development of an admin panel for user and care service management as well as analytics.
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions and containerized deployments with Docker.
- End-to-end tests with Playwright.
Technologies: Kotlin, Spring Boot 3, Spring Security, JWT, JPA/Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Angular 17, TypeScript, RxJS, AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, CloudFront CDN, RDS PostgreSQL, IAM), nginx, GitHub Actions, Playwright, Maven, Git, OpenAI API, Resend API, Docker, Scrum, i18n (DE/EN/TR), Kiro, feature flag architecture.
Alexander Z.
Last position:
Senior Data Solutions Engineer at VMware Inc.
- Architected and deployed private cloud data platform on VMware vSphere, integrating Greenplum MPP, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Apache Solr, and developed real-time ingestion pipelines with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
- Led Oracle Exadata to Greenplum migration, rearchitected data models, optimized storage, implemented RabbitMQ with Debezium for CDC, and deployed VectorDB for Generative AI.
- Designed and executed multi-cloud migration PoC across AWS, Azure, and GCP, defined KPIs for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency, executed bulk data transfers, validated analytics and streaming workloads, and delivered full-scale architecture recommendations.
- Assessed legacy on-premises infrastructure and designed modern cloud-native data platforms using Greenplum and containerized microservices, advising on scalability, disaster recovery, and high-availability.
Boian V.
Last position:
Solution Architect at DB InfraGO AG
The Base Services of DB InfraGO form a central data hub between the company’s IT systems. Common Data Services are developed that distribute data from source systems to a variety of downstream systems (via JMS) and make them available (via REST API). The existing service landscape based on TIBCO is being migrated to DB InfraGO’s cloud-native platform.
- Architecture design and implementation for performance-optimized bulk data processing of several million datasets at specific times during the day
- Technical specification and documentation of business requirements
- Integration of various subsystems (including SAP and Salesforce) through the reimplementation of more than 40 microservices based on Spring Boot
- Migration of TIBCO Based microservices from the Enterprise Integration Platform to the Cloud Native Platform using Spring-Boot
- Establishment of a deployment pipeline using GitLab CI/CD, Artifactory, and automated deployment to a Kubernetes environment with the help of ArgoCD
- Definition and implementation of automated unit, integration, and regression tests
Team Size: 9
Technologies/Tools: Java, Spring Boot, ActiveMQ(JMS), JUnit, Tibco Business Works, Gitlab (CI/CD), Kubernetes (Amazon AWS), ArgoCD, postgreSQL, Oracle, Postman, Hoppscotch, openAPI, Sonarqube
Burhan D.
Last position:
Enterprise Architect & Solution Architect at DB Netz AG
With project PRIZMA, DB will modernize its infrastructure on the one hand, and develop a fail-safe IT landscape on the other hand, which can be restored quickly and securely in case of a disaster.
- Capture current architectures of existing systems as well as methodical consulting and development of target architectures
- Deepen and maintain the building plan / target IT landscape
- Implement technical architecture concepts & architecture descriptions
- Implement migration concepts for updating and further developing the platform and information systems
- Assess submitted improvement suggestions as part of the project
- Capability management: identify capability gaps, develop target visions, and support transformation planning within the enterprise architecture.
- Create a compatibility matrix of the components in use and compare dependencies of specific versions
- Create an IT concept for extending the platform with the following topics: hardware and software requirements, security, licensing, high availability, load balancing, backup & recovery, update strategy, monitoring integration, etc.
- Coordinate with business architects as well as technical architects from the cross-functional architecture area of the PRISMA program for the topics (backup, Active Directory, monitoring, Citrix, and business applications ...)
- Status meetings and alignment of project planning with the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager
- Advise the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager in identifying project risks
- Advise the System Architect Engineers in steering the implementation of the concept
- Implement the IT concept
- Document the infrastructure
Label: MS Project, LINUX, Windows, ORACLE, Java, REST, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, UML, Enterprise Architect, BPMN, AZURE, AWS, V-MODEL, Micro Service, VisualStudio, SAP S/4HANA, SCRUM(SAFE), ESB (TIBCO), Python, Innovator, LeanIX (TOGAF), Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Automation, ROBOT, SpringBoot
Edgardo C.
Last position:
Independent Senior Software Engineer & Integration Consultant at Thinkronic
Software engineering and integration consulting for enterprise clients, with a focus on backend development, APIs, system integration, and event-driven architectures. Currently developing and evolving a recruitment and staffing platform using Elixir and RabbitMQ, including asynchronous, event-driven communication and integrations with external recruitment and staffing platforms.
Frédéric K.
Last position:
Project Manager (Enterprise Cloud Governance) at CompuGroup Medical SE & Co. KGaA
Short description: Lead a group-wide project to establish standardized cloud governance for Microsoft Azure, including policies, security and compliance controls, automation, and cost and operations control while preserving the autonomy of decentralized business units within regulatory boundaries.
Tasks and activities:
Overall responsibility for the design, setup, and implementation of an enterprise-wide cloud governance structure (Azure), incl. target picture, roadmap, and operating model.
Management of internal and external stakeholders (C-level, IT, Security, Compliance, Cloud Architecture, DevOps) incl. decision-making and escalation management.
Planning and facilitation of workshops on cloud strategy, governance principles, and the design of areas such as Identity, Connectivity, and Platform Management.
Definition, implementation, and rollout of cloud policies (Azure Policy / custom policies), security standards, and compliance requirements (including GDPR, ISO 27001, BSI C5).
Building a cloud governance framework aligned with the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), incl. landing zone and guardrail concepts.
Introduction of automation solutions for governance, security, and cost control (policy/control automation, IaC, CI/CD-based control mechanisms).
Implementation of cloud security and compliance monitoring mechanisms as well as continuous improvement processes.
Establishment and operationalization of FinOps in an enterprise environment (central and decentralized FinOps teams), incl. cost management strategies, reporting, and guardrails.
Integration of governance policies into DevOps processes (e.g. CI/CD principles for security and compliance checks, GitLab Runner concept in spokes, GitLab CI/CD for CAF landing zones).
Implementation of access concepts incl. RBAC design and "break glass" mechanisms (emergency access) as well as certificate automation (ACME / step-ca).
Achievements:
Created a unified, auditable governance and control set for Azure (policies, standards, compliance mapping) and thus laid the foundation for scalable cloud usage in a regulated environment.
Established repeatable automation for governance, security, and cost control (IaC + CI/CD), reducing manual effort and implementation risks.
Improved operational and decision-making capabilities across central and decentralized units (clearer roles, responsibilities, escalation paths, balance between autonomy and group requirements).
Significantly increased workload compliance for lift-and-shift migrations.
Technologies used:
Microsoft Azure Policy, custom policies.
Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt.
step-ca (ACME).
Entra ID.
Azure Firewall.
Azure networking, hub-and-spoke architecture.
Azure vWAN (evaluation).
Azure Front Door, Azure Application Gateway.
Azure ExpressRoute.
Azure Key Vault.
NetBox.
GitLab (on-premises).
Infrastructure, concepts used:
Cloud shared responsibility model.
Hub-and-spoke connectivity / central shared services (from a hub-spoke context).
Central governance with decentralized delivery (business unit autonomy with guardrails).
Methods used:
Scrum.
Stakeholder management (C-level to engineering).
Cloud governance, Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
DevOps, CI/CD.
Cost and FinOps approaches: tagging/chargeback models, budget/alert concepts, reserved instances/savings plans vs. on-demand scenarios, sensitivity analyses.
RBAC, "break glass" concepts.
ACME / certificate automation.
GitLab Runner concept in spokes, GitLab CI/CD pipelines for CAF landing zones.
Patrick D.
Last position:
Fullstack Developer
- SPA for automated communication of medical findings with role-based access (Sanctum)
- Server-side LLM integration (OpenRouter) with structured processing
- Automated sending via SMS/voice call (Twilio, ElevenLabs) with queue + status retry
- Full test coverage with 80+ documented test cases
Technologies: PHP, Laravel, LLM API (OpenRouter), Twilio, ElevenLabs, Laravel Sanctum, PHPUnit, Playwright, Docker, REST
Andre F.
Last position:
.NET Consultant (Fullstack) at AFri Consulting
Software development with C#
IT infrastructure development and maintenance with Microsoft Azure
Integration of 3rd-party systems
Planning and setting up DevOps CI/CD processes
C# (.net8)
Azure Cloud Services
DevOps
Jira
Dynamics
Odata
Api Management
Key Vaults
ServiceBus
Azure Functions
Blazor
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Statistics of experts using RabbitMQ
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
20 years

Position duration
1.9 years

Positions per freelancer
14

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Retail

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
89%
Master's degree or higher
53%
Doctorate
8%

Certifications per freelancer
2

Most common languages
English, German, Spanish

Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 5 Nov 2026.
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Average rates of experts using RabbitMQ
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 5 Nov 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
RabbitMQ 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 (98%)
- Banking and Finance (53%)
- Retail (44%)
- Automotive (40%)
- Transportation (35%)
- Manufacturing (35%)
- Healthcare (33%)
- Media and Entertainment (31%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Core role
RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, or AMQP. It lets applications exchange messages through queues instead of calling one another directly. This separation helps services process work asynchronously, absorb traffic spikes, and continue operating when connected systems are temporarily unavailable.
Messaging patterns
RabbitMQ supports direct, topic, fanout, and headers exchanges. Specialists use these routing models to deliver commands, events, notifications, and background jobs to the right consumers. They also design acknowledgements, retries, dead-letter exchanges, message priorities, and idempotent handlers so failed processing does not silently lose work.
- Route events between microservices
- Queue email, payment, and document jobs
- Coordinate long-running background tasks
- Buffer traffic between producers and consumers
Ecosystem and tooling
RabbitMQ commonly connects with Spring AMQP, MassTransit, Celery, Node.js clients, and .NET or Python messaging libraries. Strong specialists work with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, and Grafana when the broker runs as part of a cloud-native stack. They also understand TLS, authentication, virtual hosts, permissions, federation, and clustering.
When expertise matters
Companies bring in freelance RabbitMQ expertise when queues are growing without clear ownership, consumers are failing unpredictably, or services need to move from synchronous calls to event-driven processing. Specialists can plan a migration, define message contracts, tune prefetch and concurrency, and document operational procedures. They can also review an existing setup before a launch or major platform change.
- Diagnose stuck, duplicated, or rejected messages
- Improve throughput and consumer recovery
- Plan highly available broker deployments
- Introduce observability and alerting
Reliable operations
Production work requires more than declaring a queue. Professionals assess durable exchanges and queues, persistent messages, publisher confirms, consumer acknowledgements, quorum queues, backup plans, and recovery procedures. They distinguish broker problems from application problems and use metrics such as queue depth, consumer utilization, publish confirms, and redelivery behavior to locate bottlenecks.
Quality signals
A strong RabbitMQ professional explains why a routing topology fits the business flow instead of applying a standard template. They test failure scenarios, including broker restarts, slow consumers, duplicate delivery, poison messages, and network interruptions. They leave behind clear contracts, infrastructure configuration, runbooks, and realistic load tests so the team can operate the system after the engagement.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to RabbitMQ.
RabbitMQ is used to move messages between applications through exchanges and queues. Companies use it for background jobs, microservice events, notifications, workflow coordination, and traffic buffering when work should not block a user-facing request.
RabbitMQ is often chosen for flexible routing, work queues, request-response patterns, and controlled message delivery. Kafka is usually considered when durable event streams, replay, and very high sequential throughput are the central requirements; the right choice depends on delivery semantics and workload shape.
A strong RabbitMQ specialist should understand AMQP, exchange and queue design, acknowledgements, retries, dead-letter handling, and idempotency. Useful adjacent skills include Docker, Kubernetes, observability, infrastructure as code, and at least one application ecosystem such as Spring, .NET, Python, or Node.js.
The RabbitMQ work should match the project risk, not a fixed number of years. A simple queue integration may need focused messaging knowledge, while a clustered production system requires proven experience with failure recovery, security, capacity planning, and operational ownership.
RabbitMQ projects can usually be delivered remotely when the specialist has secure access to logs, deployment configuration, monitoring, and test environments. On-site collaboration can help during a data-center migration or incident response, but clear message contracts and documentation are more important than location for most work.
Ask how the RabbitMQ professional would handle duplicate delivery, poison messages, slow consumers, broker failure, and growing queue depth. Quality is shown through a reasoned topology, explicit recovery behavior, useful monitoring, load testing, and documentation that another team can operate.
RabbitMQ projects often fail when teams treat queues as permanent storage, ignore acknowledgements, or retry messages without limits. Other risks include unbounded queue growth, unclear ownership of message contracts, unsafe permissions, missing dead-letter handling, and insufficient testing of consumer failure.
A RabbitMQ solution makes sense when several services need reliable asynchronous delivery, routing, retries, or workload smoothing. A simpler in-process queue or managed cloud service may be better for a small, isolated task with limited routing and no need for broker-level control.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used RabbitMQ in their recent projects is 95 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 756 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used RabbitMQ in their recent projects, 89% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 53% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used RabbitMQ in their recent projects have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used RabbitMQ in their recent projects are English (98%), German (96%), and Spanish (16%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used RabbitMQ in their recent projects are Information Technology (98%), Banking and Finance (53%), and Retail (44%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used RabbitMQ in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (95%), and Quality Assurance (62%).
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