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Moez Seyedan

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Data Engineer

Königswinter
Moez Seyedan

Last position:

Data Engineer at Loschelder Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB

  • Designed a future-proof client database for marketing purposes
  • Analyzed requirements, designed, and modeled an entity-relationship model
  • Consolidated and optimized a client file from various data sources for targeted marketing campaigns
  • Worked closely with marketing and IT in an agile environment to iteratively develop the solution
  • Technologies and methods: MS Office (mainly Excel), MS Dynamics CRM, MS SharePoint
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Tobias Lewen

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Data Engineer

Berlin
Tobias Lewen

Last position:

Data Engineer at unitb consulting GmbH

Tasks: Design and operation of end-to-end cloud data platforms for enterprise clients in publishing and finance, including infrastructure automation, pipeline development, monitoring, and data quality.

Activities:

  • Built multi-layer data architectures on Databricks (Apache Spark, Delta Lake), BigQuery, and GCP
  • Fully automated cloud infrastructure with Terraform across 3 environments (DEV/STG/PRD)
  • Developed automated data pipelines with Python, dbt, and GCP services for different data sources
  • Built monitoring and alerting systems for real-time platform monitoring
  • Implemented data versioning and quality checks at every layer
  • Designed automated test and deployment pipelines in GitLab and Bitbucket

Achievements:

  • 2× production data processing capacity, reduced spike response time from minutes to ≤15 s, server errors ≈ 0
  • Replaced 3,000 lines of manual configuration with a reusable automation module for 7 customer domains, configuration errors to 0
  • Delivered a complete end-to-end data platform at ~€10/month infrastructure cost
  • Migrated 7 database tables with 0 downstream issues
  • Removed 100% exposed credentials, eliminated external vendor dependency
  • Delivered integration of 3 teams in 1 sprint
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William Nguyen

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Senior/Lead Business Analyst & AI Workflow Consultant | Requirements Engineering | BI | Workflow Automation | Claude Code

Berlin
William Nguyen

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Senior Business Analyst/Requirements Engineer at Finanzen.Net/Finanzen.Zero

  • Analysis of complex business processes and end-to-end user journeys in digital product and platform environments
  • Gathering, structuring, and prioritizing business and technical requirements (Functional / Non-Functional Requirements)
  • Translating business goals into actionable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
  • Conducting stakeholder interviews, workshops, and reviews with business teams, IT, UX, and management
  • Creating and maintaining requirement artifacts (BRD, FRD, user stories, process models, decision papers)
  • Ensuring consistency between business needs, technical implementation, and product vision
  • Close collaboration with development teams to clarify business questions during implementation
  • Support with impact analyses (A/B tests), change requests, and scope management
  • Quality assurance of implemented requirements including acceptance criteria and business testing
  • Advising on the further development of product strategy and roadmap structure
  • Prioritizing backlog items based on business value
  • Defining and sharpening product goals, KPIs, MVP definition, and other success metrics
  • Evaluating new features, tools, and initiatives from a user and business perspective
  • Facilitating decision-making between business, product, and technology
  • Supporting go-to-market considerations and product positioning
  • Sparring partner for product and stakeholder decisions at management level
  • Dashboard creation, data modeling, BI report administration, and data analysis in Power BI
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Benedikt Ruske

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Experienced Data & Business Analyst with a focus on Power BI and Business Intelligence

Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Benedikt Ruske

Last position:

Power BI developer at Mechanical Engineering (SME 500 emp.)

  • KPI dashboards for inventory and goods received quality control & testing ETL, dataset, dataflows and report development, complex DAX solutions

Data sources: Dataverse, RDB, Excel

Tools: ETL, data modeling, data flows, Power Query, M, Power BI, complex DAX

  • Capacity: 25%
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Azadeh Tavassoli

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AI Engineer | RAG, AI Agents & Multimodal Systems | Ex-Data Analyst (6+ yrs)

Munich
Azadeh Tavassoli

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AI Engineering Fellow at Turing College

  • Completed an intensive AI Engineering Program focused on LLM evaluation, retrieval, agent orchestration, and multimodal workflows.
  • Designed retrieval pipelines with document ingestion, semantic search, and citation-aware outputs using LangChain and ChromaDB.
  • Built LangGraph-based agent workflows with state handling, clarification loops, and human-in-the-loop approval steps.
  • Applied prompt engineering and evaluation patterns, including scoring logic and guardrails, to improve output quality and reliability.
  • Worked extensively with Python, FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, LangGraph, and ChromaDB in end-to-end implementations.
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Willi Ziegenhagel

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Data Analyst

Barsinghausen
Willi Ziegenhagel

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Data Analyst

  • Analysis of process data
  • Data preparation with SQL
  • Development of reports & dashboards in Celonis
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Jacqueline Scheuerer

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Senior Growth and Strategy Manager

Berlin
Jacqueline Scheuerer

Last position:

Senior Growth and Strategy Manager at Microsoft

  • Redesigned org model &led exec workshops for global sales organization of 200+ people
  • Facilitated cross-functional enablement sessions and training for 100+ global sales and strategy teams
  • Led internal coaching & mentoring circles for 30+ colleagues across functions and capabilities
  • Designed and implemented GTM programs to boost tooling adoption and upskill customer-facing teams
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David Thompson-Ajayi

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AI Trainer (NLP & LLM Evaluation)

Munich
David Thompson-Ajayi

Last position:

AI Trainer (NLP & LLM Evaluation) at Freelance

  • Designed and evaluated high-quality prompts and completions for Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on improving response accuracy, instruction-following behavior, and factual consistency.
  • Annotated and rated LLM-generated outputs for grammar, coherence, relevance, and truthfulness.
  • Developed RLHF-style preference data by ranking model completions to inform reinforcement learning fine-tuning cycles.
  • Participated in prompt engineering experiments to assess the effect of instruction format, verbosity, and phrasing on model behavior.
  • Conducted error analysis and quality assurance on large-scale NLP datasets, identifying edge cases and linguistic ambiguity affecting LLM performance.
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Matthias Krause

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Data Analyst/BI Expert

Niederkrüchten
Matthias Krause

Last position:

Data Analyst/BI Expert at GTK Kröger Steuerberater PartGmbB

  • Data management & analysis of data from leading e-commerce companies
  • Requirement gathering
  • Visualization (reports and dashboards) of accounting and business data
  • Digitalization and automation of accounting and tax processes
  • Data modelling and analysis
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Thomas Reick

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BI Consultant and Power BI Developer

Cologne
Thomas Reick

Last position:

BI Consultant and Power BI Developer at Plusnet GmbH

  • In-depth forensics of old and new data sources
  • Enhancing existing reports and creating new data analyses
  • Data preparation from source systems and semantic models
  • Azure DevOps integration
  • Tools/Skills: MS-PowerBI, DAX, MS-Office 365, PowerQuery, M, PowerAutomate, Redmine, SharePoint, SQL (T-SQL, Oracle), MS Fabric
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Sara Moussa

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Research Assistant

Berlin
Sara Moussa

Last position:

Research Assistant at Hochschule Für Wirtschaft Und Recht

  • Applied Large Language Models for text classification and definition detection.
  • Designed ETL pipelines and dashboards for data analysis through SQL, Power BI, and Python.
  • Contributed to academic publications and data visualization for AI projects using PyTorch and TensorFlow.
  • Bridged technical and business teams to drive data-driven decision-making.
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Evrim İlden

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T-SQL Database Expert

Heidelberg
Evrim İlden

Last position:

T-SQL Database Expert at TST Logistics IT

  • Implemented source code management for existing databases using SSDT and Bitbucket
  • Implemented continuous integration pipelines with Azure DevOps
  • Supported implementation of user stories (T-SQL and VBA) for existing database systems

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Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) statistics

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

13 years

Position duration

1.6 years

Positions per freelancer

9

Top business areas

Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Project Management

Top industries

Information Technology, Professional Services, Education

Certification focus areas

Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

92%

Master's degree or higher

67%

Certifications per freelancer

4

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

100%

Based on our profile pool as of 26 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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Average rates for Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) in Germany

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Daily rate avg. 729 €

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Median rate 700 €

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Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 26 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the certification

What it proves

Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate, often searched as PL-300 or Power BI Data Analyst Associate, shows that a freelancer can turn raw data into usable reports in Microsoft Power BI. The certification is for people who work between business needs and data delivery. It signals hands-on skill, not just theory.

Core skills

  • Prepare and transform data for analysis
  • Build data models that support clear reporting
  • Create measures and calculations for business questions
  • Design dashboards and reports people can read and trust
  • Publish, maintain, and share Power BI content responsibly

These skills matter when a company needs clean reporting for sales, finance, operations, or management. In Germany, they are especially useful when teams want dependable self-service analytics without tying every request to central IT.

Typical profiles

Holders of this certification are often Power BI developers, reporting analysts, BI consultants, or data analysts who work close to business users. Some come from Excel-heavy reporting roles and move into governed analytics. Others support larger data teams and focus on the last mile: the report layer, business logic, and adoption.

Why companies care

A freelancer with this certification should be able to understand the source data, shape it, and present it in a form that supports decisions. That is useful for report rebuilds, KPI dashboards, migration from spreadsheets, and ongoing support of Power BI workspaces. For companies in Germany, it also helps when English is the project language but local business users need clear, practical communication.

Knowledge behind the badge

The PL-300 path centers on the full reporting workflow in Power BI.

  • Connect to data from common business sources
  • Clean and combine data before analysis
  • Model relationships and business rules
  • Use DAX for metrics and calculated logic
  • Visualize trends, exceptions, and performance clearly
  • Secure and distribute reports with governance in mind

This certification matters most in projects where data is already available, but the reporting layer is weak, slow, or inconsistent.

Good fit for projects

The certification is a strong fit for dashboard refreshes, KPI harmonization, management reporting, sales performance tracking, and self-service analytics rollouts. It is also relevant when a company wants to standardize Power BI usage across teams. For freelancers, it helps show that they can deliver usable reports, not just build visuals.

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Frequently asked questions

The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300).

Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) validates practical Power BI work across the reporting lifecycle. It shows that the person can prepare data, build models, create measures, and present results in a way business users can act on. For companies, that usually means the freelancer can handle real reporting tasks, not only explain concepts.

Yes. PL-300 is the exam and the best-known short name, while Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate is the full certification name. Many professionals and hiring teams use both terms when they mean the same credential.

Power BI Data Analyst Associate is a good fit for analysts, BI consultants, report builders, and data professionals who work in Microsoft Power BI every day. It is especially useful for people who translate business questions into dashboards and metrics. If a freelancer focuses on reporting delivery and decision support, this certification is a strong signal.

Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate focuses on building and delivering analytics in Power BI. More advanced Microsoft certifications usually go deeper into architecture, engineering, or broader platform design. This one is about the reporting layer, data modeling, and business-facing analysis rather than large-scale infrastructure.

Before pursuing PL-300, a candidate should be comfortable with data preparation, basic modeling ideas, and the logic of business reporting. Experience with Power BI Desktop helps a lot, especially if they have already built dashboards or worked with DAX expressions. Strong spreadsheet users often adapt quickly if they are ready to work in a more structured analytics tool.

Yes. PL-300 is part of Microsoft’s certification program, so holders should keep their knowledge current through Microsoft’s renewal process. For companies, that matters because it helps ensure the freelancer stays aligned with the current Power BI feature set and best practices.

The Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification is most useful in dashboard rebuilds, KPI reporting, management reporting, and self-service analytics projects. It also fits cases where a team needs to move from manual spreadsheets to repeatable Power BI reports. In Germany, it is often relevant when local business stakeholders want clear reporting but the delivery team works remotely.

The Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) badge is a solid signal, but it should sit alongside portfolio work and project experience. It tells you the freelancer has validated Power BI skills and understands the reporting workflow. For best results, look for evidence of the kinds of dashboards, models, and business problems they have handled.

The average hourly rate for freelancers with Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) in Germany is 91 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 729 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers with Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) in Germany, 92% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 67% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers with Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) in Germany have 13 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.6 years.

The most common languages among freelancers with Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) in Germany are German (100%), English (100%), and French (21%).

The most common industries among freelancers with Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) in Germany are Information Technology (100%), Professional Services (79%), and Education (43%).

The most common business areas among freelancers with Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) in Germany are Business Intelligence (100%), Information Technology (100%), and Project Management (57%).

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