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Meet FRATCH Experts in Munich, who have recently used Apache Airflow
Mirza K.
Last position:
Agentic Automation and a RAG system
- This project involved extraction of intelligence data to support report writing for a company that provides geopolitical, global, commercial intelligence. The data have been gathered from a number of resources (interview transcripts, online data, internal documents), and then a knowledge base has been build from it. This was the basis of a complex RAG system, that was evaluated against a golden dataset. Agents have been used to find out the contradicting intelligence, the statements supporting each other, and to store back the generated knowledge.
Used: Python, RAG, LangGraph, LangChain, deepeval, MCP
Philipp G.
Last position:
Data Scientist & ML Engineer at Data-Science Factory GmbH
- Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
- Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
- Development of LLM and NLP models
- Creation of interactive reports
- Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects
Thomas H.
Last position:
Senior MLOps, DevOps Engineer at Trianel Energy
- Build and operate an end-to-end MLOps platform on Azure ML and Kubernetes (Kubeflow) for the automated deployment, monitoring, and scaling of forecasting models (including Temporal Fusion Transformer, Informer, Autoformer).
- Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for the full ML lifecycle – from resource provisioning (Terraform), data transformation (Hugging Face Datasets, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA cluster) through training and evaluation to model registry and endpoint deployment.
- Integrate MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, performance monitoring, and automated registration in the Azure Model Registry.
- Develop and containerize PyTorch training jobs (Azure Notebook, Jupyter Notebooks) for price and time series forecasting (PFC models) with automatic rollout via Azure ML Endpoints and REST/gRPC interfaces, Docker containerization, secured with OAuth 2.0.
- Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms (Prometheus, MLflow Metrics), log centralization, and cost monitoring.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and model deployment using Terraform, Helm, and Azure CLI; connect to existing market data systems and event pipelines.
- Migrate existing workloads and databases (IONOS → Azure, MongoDB) with integration into central MLOps workflows and internal networks.
- Extend the platform with LLM-based tools (LangChain, LangServe) to integrate GPT-based analysis modules into existing Spring Boot services for market anomaly detection and automated reports.
- Analyze and architect a software solution to process large volumes of data efficiently (>3000 messages/sec.) (market data store).
- Spring Boot / Java 21 container development with RabbitMQ for distributing stock market data via MongoDB (Kubernetes) with fast storage of data in Redis RMaps, deduplication, forwarding messages to Read Model queues, and building Read Models for UI display in MongoDB.
- Integration of RESTHeart to create a REST API for MongoDB.
- Build an Angular frontend to simplify data queries and master data maintenance.
- Agentic coding with remote and local LLMs (Claude Sonnet, Ollama Qwen) and MCP servers.
- Develop Python scripts for transforming and cleaning incoming stock market data (Pandas, scikit-learn).
Suyash S.
Last position:
Data Analyst - Reporting & Analytics at SIXT SE
- Developed & maintained customer analytical reporting solutions to identify revenue trends, performance drivers, risks & optimization opportunities to ensure data driven decision making across Sales, Finance, Product, Data Engineering & Controlling.
- Defined & analyzed customer trends & performance metrics to identify root causes behind variances, anomalies & emerging risks across business domains to deliver actionable recommendations.
- Developed & owned analytical data models & reporting layers to ensure scalability, performance & analytical robustness to support executive & operational reporting across business domains.
- Planned, tracked & executed projects by ensuring adherence to timelines, data accuracy, consistency, deliverables, reliability & data quality standards through rigorous validation & reconciliation processes.
- Raised the analytical maturity by formalizing analytical workflows, documenting data processes & standard operating procedures (SOPs) & conducting training sessions to drive adoption of self-service analytics & embed a data driven culture across operational and business teams.
- Took ownership of the end-to-end lifecycle roadmap from requirement gathering, collection, transformation, developing robust business logics to data storytelling & stakeholder delivery.
- Converted complexity into structured clarity by translating requirements & business processes into analytical recommendations to ensure alignment between non-technical & technical stakeholders.
- Conducted advanced SQL based analysis of complex business datasets to uncover trends, correlations & performance improvement opportunities.
- Drove process automation & efficiency improvements by leveraging Python, SQL optimization & AI assisted tools to reduce processing time & increase reliability across analytical & operational workflows.
- Standardized KPI definitions & reporting logic to ensure consistency & trust across reporting solutions.
- Developed process monitoring dashboards & analyses to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks & compliance deviations across end-to-end business processes to derive actionable recommendations for process improvement & automation.
Any-Arlene N.
Last position:
Co-Founder · Data Engineering & Backend at zirikana (Kirundi Bible Web App) – Civic Technology
- Built a Python pipeline that converts lectionary web content into structured daily JSON, applying liturgical-calendar rules for accurate weekday and Sunday coverage.
- Shipped a read-only FastAPI REST API with shared Pydantic models and delivered a Kirundi-first web client for browser and mobile use.
- Owned the data layer and backend architecture, collaborating closely on system architecture and interfaces while automating refreshes with GitHub Actions and validating the ETL with pytest.
- Impact: Created a reliable, API-driven source of truth for daily Bible readings in Kirundi, enabling consistent access to previously unstructured content.
Serge K.
Last position:
MLOps (machine learning operations) at REWE Digital GmbH
- It is like a startup within REWE, where we have to build a new forecasting system on Google Cloud Platform from the scratch. Although, officially my role is called MLOps, my actual tasks also include development of data processing pipelines (data engineering) and data scientists tasks such as feature engineering and model trainings.
- GCP: Terraform (tofu), Vertex AI (Kubeflow), Cloud Run, IAM, Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Artifact Registry
- Data engineering: Snowflake as the main data warehouse, Terraform, DBT for data model implementations
- CI/CD: GitLab. We have built a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments of new releases up to production environment
Eli R.
Last position:
Technical co-founder at AskTheLaws
- Create an AI legal assistant with modern ML capabilities.
- Implement RAG architecture, with data pipelines for legal data search.
- Use AWS Bedrock for LLM and embedding models and LangChain/LangGraph
- Python with FastApi for backend and React for frontend
Michael T.
Last position:
ETL Developer at Insurance service provider
DWH for customer and financial data
- Extension of the DWH with new data sources
- Report development
- Data quality management
Methodology: Scrum
Tools: Atlassian Confluence & Jira
Databases: Microsoft SQL Server
Programming languages: SQL, T-SQL
ETL: Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Frontend platform: PowerBI, Microsoft Reporting Services
Hardeep B.
Last position:
Sr. Data Engineer at Charles Schwab Bank
- Designed and implemented end-to-end data pipelines (batch & streaming) using Python, SQL, and Apache Spark, Databricks on AWS reducing ETL latency by 40%.
- Developed serverless event-driven ingestion pipelines using AWS Lambda and SQS, ensuring real-time data availability for downstream analytics.
- Leveraged Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including BigQuery and Dataflow to manage cross-cloud data warehousing and analytics integration.
- Expertise in DMS (CDC, Full Load) and Airflow for scalable data pipeline automation and orchestration.
- Managed and customized data pipelines using Databricks, Airflow. Automation using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
- Automated data quality checks using dbt to modularize transformations and ensure production-grade data lineage, improving reliability by 30%.
- Collaborated with compliance teams to ensure GDPR and SOC2 alignment. Mentored junior engineers and contributed to architecture refactoring for scalability.
- Created and maintained dashboards in Power BI to provide actionable insights.
Sara Z.
Last position:
Data Analyst / Analytics Engineer at IDG Tech Media GmbH
- Designed, built, and maintained scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines using Python, SQL, REST APIs, AWS Lambda, S3, PostgreSQL RDS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, Docker, Apache Airflow, and BigQuery – integrating data from GA4, Google Ads, Meta Ads, CMS, CRM, newsletters, events, and B2C ordering systems into analytics-ready datasets.
- Built a cross-brand lakehouse architecture from AWS to BigQuery – transforming raw JSON/CSV data into structured, partitioned, and reusable reporting layers with staging, intermediate, canonical, and mart models.
- Designed relational and dimensional data models: 3NF staging models, star schemas, fact tables, dimension tables, daily KPI aggregates, and dashboard-optimized marts for marketing, content, subscription, event, CRM, and revenue analysis.
- Implemented production-grade data quality and pipeline reliability features: incremental loads, idempotent upserts, deduplication, schema validation, row matching, null checks, anomaly detection, freshness monitoring, logging, retries, and error alerts.
- Automated cross-brand reporting processes and data products – pipelines for 73 newsletter campaigns, 31 lead list syncs, 52 event partner reports, and a 500K-record company matching pipeline; reduced manual data preparation by approx. 70% and increased analyst productivity by approx. 30%.
Christian S.
Last position:
Data-Scientist/AI Engineer at The Marcom Engine GmbH & Co. KG
- Concept creation and implementing AI Agents in AWS Cloud
- Continuously alignment with stakeholders
- Collaborate with DevOps
- Technologies: Git, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Python/ML, Streamlit, Deno/typescript, AWS SAM, AWS Bedrock, AWS Lambda, AWS Dynamo DB, AWS S3, AWS Event Bridge etc.
Nima N.
Last position:
Co founding LLM Engineer at LLM Ventures
- Co-founded an AI venture focused on building production-grade LLM applications and agentic systems
- Designed and implemented multi-agent AI workflows for financial and trading applications
- Developed LLM-powered copilot architectures for portfolio analysis, trade management, and personalized user coaching
- Built on-device and edge-deployed inference applications, optimizing models for low latency, privacy, and resource-constrained environments
- Led system architecture decisions across model selection, orchestration, state management, and deployment
Stephan S.
Last position:
Senior Data/ML Consultant & Technical Lead at Jolin.io
Role: Software Engineer & Applied Mathematician (Mathematical optimization for scheduling; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: JuMP, Julia, Pluto, Svelte, JavaScript, TypeScript, JetBrains Space, Terraform, Nomad)
Role: Software & Cloud & Web Engineer (Building scalable data science compute cluster from scratch; duration: 11 months; team setting: Team of 1, on-site; technologies: Terraform, Kubernetes, k8s ingress, k8s services, k8s RBAC, k8s networking, k3s, etcd, S3, DNS, certificates, Julia, Pluto, JavaScript, Tailwind, Astro, npm, Parcel, Preact, MUI, JWT, AWS SQS, AWS RDS, Python, GitLab, GitHub)
Role: AI & Web Engineer (Custom ChatGPT service; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: Python, Poetry, LangChain, Tailwind, ChatGPT API, Flask, FastAPI)
Role: Architect & Data Engineer (Central datalake setup and ingestion; duration: 9 months; team setting: Team of 5, remote; technologies: Infrastructure-as-code, AWS CDK, Python, Boto3, PySpark, AWS Glue, IAM, S3, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, Apache Hudi, DeltaLake, Databricks, GitHub, Jira, Miro)
Role: Software Engineer (PoC Julia migration of scikit-decide; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: Python, Julia, GitHub)
Nikolay T.
Last position:
Senior Cloud Data Architect at Cloudreach/Eviden (an ATOS Company)
- Architected a self-service Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) platform for a major financial institution (Commerzbank), enabling 1000+ users across hundreds of product teams to autonomously provision resources and significantly accelerate development cycles.
- Designed a data-product-oriented platform architecture for the UK Department for Transport (DfT) to serve over 1500 direct end-users and numerous connected third-party systems, enhancing data accessibility and governance.
- Drove business growth by developing the strategic roadmap for the 'One Cloud' business line, targeting a 10% revenue increase.
- Served as a key member of the CTO Authority, providing strategic guidance on internal cloud initiatives and best practices.
Maziyar K.
Last position:
Data Engineer at MSD Germany
- Lead Architect to design and implement the data lake and ETL Pipeline using AWS Stack
- Performance Optimization of Data Ingestion of ETL Pipeline
- Development of Data Validation using Great Expectations
- Leading of the data migration for two sources exchanges
- Data Modeling in AWS Redshift
MLOps
- Model inference implementation by mlflow and AWS SageMaker
- Feature Engineering for the running ML Models ( Recommender Engineer, Clustering )
- Implementatino of Model Registry and artifactory using mlflow
- Historization an Profiling of the Input Data Using AWS Glue Crawler and AWS Data Catalog
- Feature importance using mlflow
Tech. Stack: Python 3, AWS Glue, AWS Step Fucntion, AWS Lambda, AWS EventBridge, AWS IAM Role, AWS SageMaker, AWS EC2, AWS Glue Crawler, AWS CloudWatch, MLFlow, ETL, Data lake, GitHub Action, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible playbooks (Infrastructure as Code), CI/CD, GitLab, SQL, PySparkSCRUM, Agile, Jira, BigData, VSCode, DBeaver, MSSQL, MySQL, grafana, Docker, Linux, Bash, MapReduce, Data Modeling (ORM), Pandas, YAML, SQL-Alchemy
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Statistics of experts using Apache Airflow
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
16 years (Germany: 14 years)

Position duration
2 years (Germany: 1.9 years)

Positions per freelancer
11 (Germany: 9)

Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development

Top industries
Information Technology, Retail, Automotive

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Research and Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
95% (Germany: 99%)
Master's degree or higher
86% (Germany: 69%)
Doctorate
18% (Germany: 11%)

Certifications per freelancer
2 (Germany: 3)

Most common languages
English, German, French

Speak two or more languages
96% (Germany: 97%)
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 Munich 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 Munich using Apache Airflow
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.
Apache Airflow 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 (80%)
- Retail (52%)
- Automotive (44%)
- Banking and Finance (44%)
- Education (40%)
- Professional Services (40%)
- Media and Entertainment (36%)
- Transportation (32%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Workflow orchestration
Apache Airflow is an open-source platform for authoring, scheduling and monitoring data workflows. Teams define pipelines as Python code, then manage task dependencies, retries, alerts and execution history through a web interface. It suits repeatable batch processing across local and cloud environments, including data systems used by Munich-based companies.
DAG design
Airflow workflows are represented as directed acyclic graphs, or DAGs. Each task describes an operation, while dependencies control the order in which work runs. Strong specialists design clear, idempotent DAGs, separate business logic from orchestration and choose scheduling, backfill and catchup behavior carefully.
Ecosystem and tooling
The platform connects with databases, warehouses, APIs, storage systems and processing engines through providers and operators. Relevant expertise often includes Python, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, dbt, Apache Spark, cloud services and CI/CD. Professionals also work with secrets management, logging, metrics and access controls.
- Build ingestion and transformation pipelines
- Schedule warehouse loads and data quality checks
- Coordinate Spark, Kubernetes and dbt tasks
- Connect APIs, object storage and relational databases
- Monitor failures, retries and operational alerts
When expertise matters
Companies bring in freelance Airflow expertise when pipelines have become difficult to operate, delivery deadlines are tight or an existing orchestration setup needs restructuring. Specialists can migrate legacy cron jobs, establish deployment practices, improve observability or prepare workflows for higher data volume without turning every change into manual operations.
For teams in Munich, remote collaboration can work well when documentation, access procedures and ownership are clear. On-site workshops may help when Airflow touches sensitive data, several internal teams or a wider platform modernization effort.
Quality signals
A capable professional explains why a workflow belongs in Airflow and when another tool is more suitable. Look for practical experience with scheduling semantics, task isolation, executor choices, dependency management, testing and safe reruns. They should also make failures diagnosable and keep DAG code maintainable for the team that inherits it.
Ask for examples of production incidents, migration decisions and data quality controls rather than only a list of operators. Experience with German and English documentation can support collaboration across Munich teams and international stakeholders.
Delivery outcomes
Freelance specialists may deliver a production-ready Airflow environment, modular DAGs, provider integrations, deployment pipelines, monitoring dashboards and runbooks. They can also review an existing installation, define conventions and coach an internal team on testing, releases and incident response.
The best result is not simply a collection of scheduled tasks. It is an observable orchestration layer with predictable dependencies, controlled access, clear ownership and recovery procedures that fit the company’s data architecture.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around Apache Airflow.
Apache Airflow is used to schedule, coordinate and monitor workflows made up of dependent tasks. Companies use it for data ingestion, warehouse loading, transformation, machine learning preparation, reporting and operational batch processes.
Airflow provides dependency management, retries, backfills, visibility and a user interface that cron does not offer. Compared with managed services, it gives teams more control over workflow code and deployment, while requiring more responsibility for infrastructure and operations.
A strong Apache Airflow specialist usually works comfortably with Python, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud storage, data warehouses and CI/CD. Knowledge of dbt, Apache Spark, APIs, secrets management and observability is valuable when workflows span several systems.
The right level depends on the scope. A small set of straightforward DAGs may need focused implementation experience, while migrations, multi-environment deployments and high-stakes data pipelines call for a professional who has operated Airflow in production and handled failed or delayed runs.
Yes. Airflow work is often well suited to remote collaboration when repositories, environments, credentials and ownership are clearly organized. On-site sessions in Munich can still be useful for architecture workshops, access reviews or coordination with teams handling sensitive data.
Ask how the expert designs idempotent tasks, manages retries, tests DAGs and investigates failures. A good Apache Airflow expert can explain scheduling behavior, dependency choices, deployment methods and monitoring in terms your team can maintain.
Airflow may be a poor fit for simple event-driven actions, low-latency streaming or workflows that need instant reaction to every message. In those cases, teams may consider a message-based system, a stream processor or a simpler scheduler instead.
An Apache Airflow freelancer can deliver DAGs, provider integrations, deployment configuration, data quality checks, monitoring, alerting and operational runbooks. They may also migrate cron-based jobs, establish coding standards and document how the team tests, releases and recovers workflows.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Airflow in their recent projects is 96 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 766 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Airflow in their recent projects, 95% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 86% hold at least a Master's degree, and 18% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Airflow in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Airflow in their recent projects are English (96%), German (92%), and French (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Airflow in their recent projects are Information Technology (80%), Retail (52%), and Automotive (44%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Apache Airflow in their recent projects are Information Technology (96%), Business Intelligence (84%), and Product Development (72%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Apache Airflow
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