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Abhishek Nair

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Hands-on Engineering Lead

Berlin
Abhishek Nair

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Fullstack Developer at DAMALO GmbH

  • Own full-stack development of an AI-native enterprise platform built on TypeScript, React, Vite, tRPC, Hono, and PostgreSQL, delivering AI-powered consulting workflows to B2B clients.
  • Designed and shipped a multi-agent AI system using ReAct framework and Claude skills-style workflow patterns, including an intelligent PM assistant with rich system prompts, slash commands, tool integrations, and streaming chat UI.
  • Architected an LLM evaluation framework: rubric-based LLM-as-judge, golden datasets, regression testing, and automated quality gating — ensuring consistent AI output quality at scale.
  • Integrated LangFuse for end-to-end LLM tracing, conversation replays, and evaluation pipelines, enabling data-driven prompt optimisation that reduced token costs and response variance.
  • Built with Drizzle ORM, pgvector, and knowledge graphs for structured data access, semantic search, and relationship-aware AI reasoning across the platform.
  • Led TanStack React Query migration across the application — replacing manual state management with centralised caching and automatic refetching, reducing data-fetching boilerplate significantly.
  • Practiced AI-native development throughout: Claude Code, Codex, Perplexity SDK, and LLM-assisted testing across the full development lifecycle. Deployed on Vercel + Azure ACA with Biome for linting/formatting.
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Rüdiger Schulz

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Full-Stack Software Engineer / Consultant for Digitalization

Berlin
Rüdiger Schulz

Last position:

Full-Stack Software Engineer / Consultant for Digitalization at ARTEVENT

  • Designed, built, and launched an internal event planning web application used by over 100 department leads for a large event, despite having no dedicated testing phase.

  • Ensured smooth, failure-free operation during first production use, leading to the tool being adopted for future events.

  • Automated catering calculations and related workflows, significantly reducing email communication and manual computation effort for meal planning.

  • Managed deployment and hosting on a Linux server using Coolify, including application setup and runtime operations.

  • Hired and guided a communication designer on UX while independently owning all technical decisions and implementation.

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Alois Rietzler

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Senior Backend & Fullstack Developer

Berlin
Alois Rietzler

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Senior Fullstack Developer at brandung GmbH

  • Opt-in RAG extension over tenant-owned data sources (SharePoint, Confluence) on existing multi-tenant enterprise AI platform
  • Architecture: ADRs, solution evaluations, permission strategy, cost modeling
  • End-to-end SharePoint and Confluence connectors: OAuth consent flows, token refresh, metadata sync, search integration
  • Permission resolution: ACL indexing at ingestion and query-time verification (document-level security)
  • Elasticsearch hybrid search (semantic + keyword) with RRF scoring
  • RAG chat with context injection and source citations
  • Stack: Elastic Cloud, Elasticsearch, Docker, Northflank, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Prisma, Microsoft Graph API, Atlassian REST API, OAuth 2.0
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Syed Abdul

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Senior Software Engineer

Berlin
Syed Abdul

Last position:

Senior Software Engineer at Giant Eagle

  • Designed and developed AI-powered document processing solutions using Python, OCR, NLP, and Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate extraction, validation, and classification of financial documents, reducing processing time by 75%.
  • Built intelligent multi-stage workflow automation pipelines integrating AI services, machine learning models, and enterprise systems to streamline financial operations and improve data quality.
  • Developed reusable AI-driven transformation frameworks capable of processing structured and unstructured document formats (XML, CSV, JSON, TXT, DAT) and normalizing them into unified business schemas.
  • Designed and developed Python-based REST APIs and backend services supporting enterprise finance applications and high-volume data processing workloads.
  • Built scalable data synchronization pipelines between Oracle CFIN and SQL databases, incorporating machine learning models for cash-flow forecasting and AP/AR anomaly detection.
  • Architected and deployed Apache Airflow workflows to orchestrate AI-powered data pipelines, automating end-to-end processing from document ingestion through financial system integration.
  • Led the migration of critical enterprise integrations from MuleSoft to Python-based services, improving maintainability, performance, and operational flexibility while preserving complete data integrity.
  • Managed the full API lifecycle including solution design, implementation, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and production support for mission-critical financial systems.
  • Collaborated directly with finance stakeholders to identify business challenges, define solution requirements, and deliver measurable operational improvements through automation and AI-driven workflows.
  • Worked closely with cross-functional engineering and business teams to rapidly iterate on features, improve processes, and drive successful adoption of AI-enabled solutions.
  • Provided technical leadership through architecture reviews, technology decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices across integration and automation initiatives.
  • Mentored developers, established coding standards, and contributed to improving software quality, maintainability, and delivery effectiveness across projects.
  • Provided production support during critical month-end and quarter-close financial processes, performing root-cause analysis and implementing rapid fixes to ensure system reliability and data accuracy.
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Anshita Srivastava

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Data & Analytics Professional

Berlin
Anshita Srivastava

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Business Intelligence Developer and Data Analyst at Deloitte Consulting

Specialize in turning complex data from diverse environments into actionable business value through compelling visual storytelling. I am an expert in generating actionable insights and presenting recommendations to business stakeholders. My technical proficiency in SQL, Python, and leading data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI allows me to deliver a new generation of self-service tools and analytics services.

  • Data Visualization & Storytelling: Created impactful data visualizations and dashboards in Tableau and Power BI, effectively communicating findings and presenting actionable recommendations to C-suite stakeholders and business leaders.
  • Stakeholder Management: Built effective working relationships with key business stakeholders, data engineers, and other partners to achieve common data-driven goals and targets.
  • Insights & Recommendations: Generated actionable insights from complex data analysis for funnel conversion, marketing performance, and ROI, directly influencing business performance and strategy.
  • Data Collaboration & Empowerment: Worked closely with cross-functional teams to support the ongoing data needs of internal partners, helping to optimize internal data processes and workflows.
  • BI & Data Expertise: Applied extensive experience in data modeling, data collection, data mining, and analysis to deliver end-to-end analytical solutions from stakeholder discovery to production.
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Jorge Nuricumbo

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Senior AI Engineer | Backend Developer C#/.NET | RAG, LLM Integration, Semantic Kernel | Azure, GCP, AWS

Berlin
Jorge Nuricumbo

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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

  • Architected and implemented 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.
  • Designed and developed 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 the production error rate.

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

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Oleg Abrazhaev

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Staff Software Engineer

Berlin
Oleg Abrazhaev

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Staff Software Engineer at Kpler Germany GmbH

  • Delivered a new notifications platform implementation built from scratch to replace existing and upcoming services
  • Collaborating with other teams to integrate more domains

Tech stack:

  • Data: Scala 3, Apache Kafka, Python, Airflow, Astronomer
  • BE-FE: TypeScript, NestJS, Java, Spring Boot, Vue
  • Dev-ops: AWS, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD
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Santhosh Kannan

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Freelance Software Engineer

Berlin
Santhosh Kannan

Last position:

Freelance Software Engineer at Zalando SE

  • Support Authorization as a Service initiative for enterprise-scale authorization platform
  • Incorporate comprehensive observability solutions into authorization infrastructure
  • Provision and manage AWS infrastructure for authorization services
  • Mentor development team on AWS and Kubernetes best practices
  • Tech Stack: Java/Kotlin, Golang, Python, OPA, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana
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Imran Ali

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Software Engineer II

Berlin
Imran Ali

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Software Engineer II at LivePerson Germany GmbH

  • Led development of 15+ microservices (Java 17, Spring Boot) driving customer interactions; migrated from on-prem to GCP Kubernetes, improving scalability and reducing infra cost by 20%.
  • Optimized user services with CouchDB caching and API refactoring, cutting response times by 35% and enhancing customer experience.
  • Implemented canary deployments, FluxCD GitOps, and CI/CD optimizations in GitLab, reducing release lead time by 25% and enabling zero-downtime rollouts.
  • Set up Grafana health checks and Anodot alerts for latency, error, and throughput monitoring, reducing MTTR by 40%.
  • Built secure APIs using OAuth2, DPoP, and Gatekeeper, integrated REST and GraphQL, and achieved 90%+ test coverage with unit and E2E tests.
  • Mentored junior developers, promoted Agile best practices, and collaborated cross-functionally to deliver high-impact, reliable customer-facing features.
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Nada Sadek

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Senior Frontend Engineer (React & TypeScript)

Berlin
Nada Sadek

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Freelance Senior Frontend Engineer at Self-Employed

  • Senior software engineer focused on React, TypeScript and AI-assisted product workflows
  • Build frontend systems for complex SaaS products, internal tools and operational workflows
  • Recent work includes AI evaluation tooling, support reliability analysis and developer-focused QA systems
  • Available for freelance and contract engagements, especially remote-first projects
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Viktor Shcherban

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AI Engineer & Full-Stack Developer

Berlin
Viktor Shcherban

Last position:

AI Engineer (Freelance) at Empion

Enterprise AI content categorization and AI-powered web research.

  • Built multi-LLM evaluation framework with annotated data
  • Iterated LLM error rates based on annotated datasets
  • Implemented AI-powered web research pipeline Stack: LLM, evals, OpenRouter, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React
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Geza Lakatos

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UX Consultant

Berlin
Geza Lakatos

Last position:

UX Strategist & AI App Developer (AI-assisted App Strategy) at Own Projects (Nutrycoach.ai, LuxuryBandit)

Conceptualizing and developing AI-powered app MVPs from the first idea to a working product. I combine UX strategy with modern AI and no-code tools — especially Claude and Claude Code, where I work directly in the terminal on real code (React, Vite), complemented by Figma, Bolt.new, and Base44 — to quickly validate and build product ideas. Personal platforms: Nutrycoach.ai (AI nutrition coaching with role-based dashboards for clients, coaches, and admins, AI meal analysis, and a scalable design system) and LuxuryBandit (content/creator app). This led to my own practice 'AI-assisted App Strategy', which combines human creativity, UX logic, and intelligent automation.

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Marina Kornilova

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Software Developer | C# | AWS Cloud

Berlin
Marina Kornilova

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Independent Software Developer at LILARAUM

  • Independently designed, developed, published, and maintained mobile games for iOS and Android.
  • Implemented application architecture, gameplay systems, UI, monetization, analytics, and platform integrations.
  • Managed the complete release lifecycle, including testing, store publication, production monitoring, and iterative improvements based on analytics.
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Abhiroop Basu

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Software Engineer III

Berlin
Abhiroop Basu

Last position:

Software Engineer III at Foundry Digital

  • Developed and deployed microservices in Kotlin and Spring Boot, integrated AWS Secrets Manager to secure credentials and decreased network calls using Spring cache.
  • Refactored Kafka consumer using Spring Kafka with semaphore-based backpressure to cap records and keep heap memory stable under spikes; switched to batch upserts to cut down on database invocations; added Testcontainers integration tests for Kafka and database to pave the way for future changes.
  • Automated the financial reconciliation workflow in Spring Boot (Kotlin) using Spring Scheduler, transactional boundaries, JPA/Hibernate on MySQL, and Flyway migrations, saving the accounts team 16+ hours per week.
  • Designed and dockerized payments end-to-end test framework in Robot (Python) with reusable keyword libraries and profiles; integrated with GitLab CI (JaCoCo XML and HTML reports) to accelerate releases and lift code coverage to 80%.
  • Implemented end-to-end observability on Datadog by instrumenting services with Datadog APM, correlating metrics and logs, provisioning dashboards, and creating monitors with burn-rate alerts and anomalies to harden reliability and give stakeholders clear visibility.

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Software Developers statistics

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

15 years

Position duration

3 years

Positions per freelancer

10

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries

Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

Bachelor's degree or higher

94%

Master's degree or higher

50%

Doctorate

4%

Certifications per freelancer

1

Most common languages

English, German, Spanish

Speak two or more languages

94%

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Average rates for Software Developers & Seniority distribution

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Daily rate avg. 691 €

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Median rate 720 €

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Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the role

What they build

A software developer turns product needs into working code. That can mean new features, internal tools, integrations, APIs, bug fixes, or performance work. Strong developers do more than write code: they understand requirements, ask the right questions, and keep the implementation maintainable.

  • Build and extend web or backend applications
  • Connect systems through APIs and data flows
  • Fix defects, refactor code, and improve stability
  • Support testing, release work, and handover

Core skills

A strong software developer combines programming skill with practical delivery habits. Companies usually look for someone who can move across the stack, work in a team, and keep pace with changing priorities. Common stacks include JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP, or Go, depending on the product.

  • Solid understanding of software architecture and clean code
  • Experience with Git, code reviews, and agile delivery
  • Comfort with testing, debugging, and documentation
  • Ability to work with product, design, and QA

Typical specializations

The role can look very different from project to project. Some software developers focus on backend systems, others on frontend interfaces, mobile apps, cloud services, or DevOps-heavy tasks. In Berlin, this often comes up in startup products, scale-up platforms, SaaS tools, and enterprise system changes.

Use cases often include:

  • New product development from an existing concept
  • Migration from legacy code or old frameworks
  • Integration of payment, CRM, ERP, or analytics systems
  • Short-term support for release pressure or a team gap

When to bring one in

Companies hire a freelancer when speed matters, when a team is missing a specific stack, or when a project needs extra capacity without a long hiring process. That is common when a roadmap is blocked by a missing backend specialist, when delivery is behind, or when a temporary team member must join an existing codebase quickly.

For Berlin companies, this is often a good fit when English is the main working language but the team also collaborates with local stakeholders, product owners, or engineering leads on site.

What good looks like

Strong software developers leave a clear trail in the codebase. They make changes that are easy to review, test, and maintain. They reduce risk instead of creating it.

  • Understand the product goal before coding
  • Write readable, tested, production-ready code
  • Communicate trade-offs clearly
  • Work well in remote or hybrid teams

Choosing the right fit

Not every developer is right for every project. A frontend-heavy product needs different strengths than a data pipeline, an API platform, or an internal enterprise tool. The best freelance software developer is the one who has shipped similar work, can start quickly, and fits the team’s way of working.

Look for proof in past systems, the way they explain their decisions, and how they handle maintenance, handover, and unfinished requirements.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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A Software Developer turns business requirements into working software. That can include new features, API work, bug fixes, refactoring, integrations, testing support, and release preparation. On freelance projects, the work is usually tied to a clear product goal or a specific delivery gap.

The most important skills are strong coding ability, clean problem solving, and reliable delivery. You should also look for comfort with version control, testing, debugging, and team communication. A good developer can work with your stack without needing constant direction.

In many teams, those titles overlap. A software engineer often implies a broader focus on architecture, systems thinking, and engineering practices, while programmer can sound narrower and more code-only. In practice, a good software developer usually covers the full day-to-day build work and collaborates closely with product and QA.

A freelancer makes sense when you need speed, temporary capacity, or a very specific skill set. This is common for migrations, launch work, backlog cleanup, or when a permanent search would slow the project down. If the need is ongoing and central to the business, a permanent hire may be the better fit.

Berlin teams often need help with startup products, SaaS platforms, internal tools, and system integrations. A software developer can also support legacy modernization, cloud work, and API-heavy products. Local teams may work in English, but direct communication with founders, product leads, or engineers on site is still common.

Both can work well. Remote collaboration is common for coding tasks, especially when the scope is clear and the team uses strong review and ticketing practices. On-site time in Berlin can help during discovery, workshop sessions, and early alignment with stakeholders.

Look at shipped work, code quality, and how the person explains technical choices. A solid software engineer or developer should be able to talk through trade-offs, testing, failure handling, and maintainability. References, code samples, and a short technical discussion are often enough to see if they fit.

A freelancer should ask for access to the codebase, repo standards, environments, tickets, and any existing architecture notes. Clear acceptance criteria and a contact person for questions help the work start faster. For a programmer, this preparation is often what makes the first days productive instead of slow.

The average hourly rate for Software Developers in Berlin is 86 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 691 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers working as Software Developers in Berlin, 94% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 50% hold at least a Master's degree, and 4% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers working as Software Developers in Berlin have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3 years.

The most common languages among freelancers working as Software Developers in Berlin are English (97%), German (89%), and Spanish (14%).

The most common industries among freelancers working as Software Developers in Berlin are Information Technology (97%), Media and Entertainment (36%), and Banking and Finance (34%).

The most common business areas among freelancers working as Software Developers in Berlin are Information Technology (98%), Product Development (91%), and Quality Assurance (48%).

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