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Nemanja Milenković

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Senior / Lead AI Engineer | Applied GenAI, RAG, AI Agents & AI Platform Engineering

Dortmund
Nemanja Milenković

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AI Engineer / Senior Backend Engineer at Intelycx

Manufacturing intelligence platform with enterprise workflows, RAG, real-time AI assistant features, and multi-repository backend architecture.

  • Built and extended production AI/backend services with Django, DRF, FastAPI, GraphQL, Celery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and WebSockets across a modular multi-repository platform.
  • Contributed to ARIS V2, a real-time manufacturing AI assistant using LangChain, LangGraph, MCP tool orchestration, planning/execution flows, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Qdrant, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch-backed retrieval.
  • Supported rollout expansion from ARIS V1 in 4 of 17 client production plants to ARIS V2 currently active in 13 of 17 plants, increasing real-world deployment coverage to more than 50% of the client footprint.
  • Worked on document-grounded RAG functionality including ingestion, OCR, chunking, embeddings, indexing, retrieval, reranking, and grounded answer generation for industrial workflows.

Stack: Python, Django, DRF, FastAPI, LangChain, LangGraph, GraphQL, Celery, WebSockets, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Qdrant, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Docker.

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Laurin Hagemann

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Software Architect (Freelance)

Bochum
Laurin Hagemann

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Software Architect (Freelance) at Care4Sure

  • Delivered MVP-focused full-stack architecture for a health-sector client: Vite/React frontend, backend services on Google Cloud Run, and Supabase for database plus IAM/authentication.
  • Supported product requirements engineering and prioritized cost-aware workload placement, implementing browser-side/edge computation where feasible before moving logic to backend services.
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Ashwin Parthasarathy

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Freelance Data Scientist

Dortmund
Ashwin Parthasarathy

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Freelance Data Scientist at Mercor Intelligence

  • Architected and deployed end-to-end machine learning pipelines across classification and prediction datasets, ensuring robustness and reproducibility through MLOps best practices.
  • Contributed directly to LLM model output accuracy improvement by designing and engineering specialised prompts grounded in end-to-end ML and SciML pipeline logic.
  • Developed training data for large language models by formulating coding problems that models could not resolve and subsequently documenting the correct solutions.
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Stefan Rest

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Senior Product Owner

Wetter
Stefan Rest

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Senior Product Owner at Bosch & ETAS Automotive

  • Product Owner for Digital Delivery Team
  • Bosch-wide digitization project for software deliveries
  • Technologies: SAP EMS, JFrog, Revenera
  • Running PI planning sessions
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Daniel Wambua

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Annotator | Quality Analyst | Mechanical Engineer

Bochum
Daniel Wambua

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Technical Support Manager at Verizon Connect

  • Developed and optimised structured support workflows and evaluation procedures, applying consistent quality standards across high-volume operational tasks.
  • Monitored performance metrics to identify systemic issues and drive targeted improvements — a skill directly transferable to LLM performance metric analysis.
  • Managed escalations and maintained high accuracy and satisfaction standards in a fully asynchronous, remote-first environment.
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Daniel Fenge

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Reliable, High-Performing, and Creative Education and Project Manager, AI Trainer/Evals Reviewer/Researcher, and Author.

Bochum
Daniel Fenge

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AI Researcher & LLM Evaluation – Conventional Paradigm Test (CPT) at Private

Conventional Paradigm Test (CPT) – AI Evaluation & LLM Research

Development of an experimental evaluation approach to examine “paradigmatic closure” in Large Language Models — that is, the question of how far LLMs can recognize the basic assumptions, values, and limits of the paradigms within which they generate answers.

Design and testing of an additional approach to classic AI benchmarks that does not primarily measure factual correctness or task performance, but instead examines a model’s ability to recognize alternative perspectives, make implicit assumptions visible, and reflect on the limits of its own answer or interpretation framework.

Focus areas: development of evaluation criteria and test questions · LLM evaluation and comparative model analysis · prompt and response analysis · qualitative classification of model answers · study of epistemic compression and value leakage · benchmark and literature research · development of structured assessment and analysis methods

As part of CPT, existing AI evaluation approaches and benchmarks were analyzed, and a minimalist test protocol was developed that classifies model answers by response patterns such as DIRECT, CLARIFY, PLURALIST, REFUSE, and META-AWARE. TruthfulQA was used as the basis for experimental application and comparison with existing reference answers.

Technologies & Methods: Large Language Models (LLMs) · Generative AI · Prompt Engineering · AI Evaluation · TruthfulQA · Benchmark Analysis · Human-in-the-Loop Evaluation · Qualitative Content Analysis · Research & Literature Review

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Nazrin Alili

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Junior Marketing Project Manager

Dortmund
Nazrin Alili

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Junior Marketing Project Manager at Eingenetzt Marketing Agentur

  • Planning and executing integrated 360° marketing campaigns for mid-sized B2B clients
  • Stakeholder management with internal teams, industry partners, and external agencies
  • KPI-based performance reporting and deriving optimization measures
  • Managing SEA budgets; keyword research and competitor analysis (ahrefs, Google Search Console)
  • Scheduling and deadline management across multiple parallel client projects
  • Tools: Google Ads, Google Search Console, ahrefs, WordPress, Trello, Canva, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
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Adnan Urwani

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Junior AI & Automation Engineer

Dortmund
Adnan Urwani

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Independent AI & Automation Projects

  • Development of an automated job-scouting workflow for the aggregation and LLM-based evaluation of job postings from RSS feeds and APIs.
  • Development of a Telegram bot for voice and text messages, featuring LLM-supported processing, summarization, and structured JSON output.
  • Implementation of a personal task-planning assistant using n8n, OpenRouter, and Supabase for automated daily and knowledge organization.
  • Development of LLM chatbots for structured knowledge retrieval utilizing prompt constraints, guardrails, and forced output formats.
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Patrik Garten

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Technical Lead Conversational AI

Dortmund
Patrik Garten

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Technical Lead Conversational AI at CANCOM

  • Technical lead of a team developing agentic chatbot solutions (React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI)
  • Architecture design for multi-LLM dialog systems - focus on maintainability, UX, and autonomous execution
  • Stakeholder alignment, CI/CD processes, and AI integration at enterprise level
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Felix Maas

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AI Trainer

Hattingen
Felix Maas

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AI Trainer at AKIA Academy for AI & Automation

  • Led the 12-week training program to become an AI and automation specialist
  • Created training materials & video courses on "AI Fundamentals", "Working with ChatGPT", "Prompt Engineering", "AI Agents with N8N", "Automations with Make.com" & AI-generated marketing content (images, videos, blog posts & social media posts)
  • Conducted workshops on the above topics
  • Tools: Loom, N8N, Make.com, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Gamma.app, Canva, Kling AI, Magnific AI
  • Result: Participants learn the technical and business know-how to successfully build a business as AI and automation specialists
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Derek Micallef

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Expert in AI Process Automation | n8n | AI Automations Manager | Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Olfen
Derek Micallef

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AI Automations Manager - Hardware Setup, Automation & Voice Agent at Autohaus Mazda

  • Setting up new desktop computers
  • Setting up a VPS for automation, databases and chat interface
  • Connecting to Azure AI Foundry
  • Developing various n8n workflows for email, social media and document management
  • Implementing a QA system (backups, error handling, HITL)
  • Setting up and optimizing an inbound voice agent
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Christian Weinbörner

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Interim Business Analyst / Product Owner

Dortmund
Christian Weinbörner

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Interim Business Analyst / Product Owner at Bundesdruckerei GmbH (via FourEnergy GmbH)

  • Initial assessment of requirements based on a business value prioritization framework
  • Identification of issues as well as requirement gathering and evaluation using UML, BPMN, and design thinking methods for iterative requirements analysis through interviews and workshops
  • Use of user story mapping in Miro to visualize and align functional requirements (e.g. correct transmission of all application data and attachments to the specialist system) as well as non-functional requirements (e.g. complete and verifiable deletion of an applicant's data) with stakeholders
  • Proactive stakeholder management of internal and external stakeholders from public authorities, business units, organizations, and companies
  • Preparation of status reports to communicate project progress and upcoming tasks transparently
  • Responsibility for a REST-based integration solution (middleware) for secure data exchange between core systems and external specialist applications; ensuring stability and performance in day-to-day operations
  • Support for Product Owners in prioritizing backlog items and in product discovery
  • Communication of planning to internal and external stakeholders as well as interim assumption of Product Owner tasks and responsibilities during a staff change
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Gregor Hasert

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Managing Partner – COO/CFO – Authorized Officer

Bochum
Gregor Hasert

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Managing Partner – COO/CFO – Authorized Officer at Livello GmbH

  • Executive responsibility for the strategic and operational management of the company with full P&L accountability
  • Average 42% annual revenue growth
  • Reduction of burn rate by 40%
  • Significant increase in operational efficiency and transparency
  • Strategic realignment and restructuring of organization, cost structure and product portfolio
  • Built and led an interdisciplinary team (Sales, Customer Service, Production, Finance; 8 FTE)
  • Scaled the business model by implementing structured B2B sales processes
  • Operational excellence in production (error reduction > 30%)
  • Established a professional customer support with a ticketing system and measurable improvement in customer satisfaction
  • Implemented robust finance, reporting and governance structures (Order-to-Cash, HGB financial statements)
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Stefan Opitz

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Managing Partner

Dortmund
Stefan Opitz

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Managing Partner at IAW Institute for Education and Training UG

  • Managing the company with 5–10 employees
  • Planning and delivering AZAV-certified training programs

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Statistics of experts using Artificial Intelligence

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

16 years (Germany: 18 years)

Position duration

2.3 years (Germany: 3.1 years)

Positions per freelancer

9 (Germany: 10)

Top business areas

Product Development, Project Management, Information Technology

Top industries

Information Technology, Education, Professional Services

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

91% (Germany: 92%)

Master's degree or higher

50% (Germany: 64%)

Doctorate

14% (Germany: 11%)

Certifications per freelancer

2 (Germany: 3)

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 97%)

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

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Average rates of experts in Dortmund using Artificial Intelligence

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 827 €
Germany avg. 843 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 840 €
Germany median 800 €

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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the technology

What AI covers

Artificial intelligence is used to build systems that understand language, recognize patterns, predict outcomes, and automate decisions. In practice, that can mean assistants, recommendation engines, document processing, forecasting, or generative AI features inside products and internal tools.

Common work

  • Use case design and model selection
  • Data preparation and feature work
  • Prompting and evaluation for generative AI
  • Integration with APIs, search, and business systems
  • Monitoring, testing, and model improvement

Skills that matter

Strong professionals working with AI combine data thinking with product sense. They know when to use classical machine learning, when to use large language models, and when a simpler rule-based approach is better. They also care about data quality, latency, safety, and how the system behaves in production.

Typical toolchain

AI work often sits across Python, notebooks, model APIs, vector search, MLOps tools, and cloud services. Depending on the stack, experts may also work with frameworks for training, retrieval, orchestration, or deployment. The right setup depends on the data, the risk level, and how the application will be maintained.

When companies bring in experts

Companies usually need outside AI specialists when a new idea must be validated quickly, an existing prototype needs to move into production, or an internal team lacks depth in model work. In Dortmund, this often fits industrial, logistics, retail, and software contexts where teams want practical systems, not experiments that stay in a slide deck.

What good delivery looks like

Good AI specialists write clear problem statements, define measurable output, and test on real data. They document assumptions, highlight limits, and build with privacy, security, and maintainability in mind. For remote work, strong communication matters just as much as technical depth, especially when teams in Dortmund collaborate across product, data, and operations.

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Frequently asked questions

Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Artificial Intelligence.

A strong Artificial Intelligence specialist builds systems that classify documents, score leads, predict demand, power chat experiences, or automate repetitive decisions. The work can include model training, prompt design, retrieval layers, and deployment into existing software. Good delivery always starts with a clear business task, not with the model itself.

AI is the broader field. Machine learning is one major part of it, and many practical projects depend on it, but AI can also include rules, search, planning, and generative systems. When hiring, it helps to know whether the project needs model training, language generation, or a mix of both.

Artificial Intelligence projects that need text generation, summarization, or conversational interfaces often benefit from generative AI. If the task is structured prediction, classification, or scoring, classic machine learning may be simpler and more stable. A good specialist helps choose the approach that fits the data and the risk.

A strong AI freelancer usually brings Python, data preparation, API integration, evaluation design, and some cloud or MLOps experience. For product work, they also need to think about security, privacy, and how users will interact with the system. If the project uses retrieval or search, vector databases and information retrieval are important too.

Artificial Intelligence work rarely succeeds with model knowledge alone. Most projects need someone who can handle messy data, define success criteria, and turn a prototype into something maintainable. If the project touches customer data or core operations, you want a specialist who has shipped production systems before.

Yes. AI work is often well suited to remote collaboration because much of it happens in code, notebooks, and shared datasets. For teams in Dortmund, on-site time can still help at the start when stakeholders need to align on scope, data access, and process constraints.

Look at how the Artificial Intelligence specialist talks about data quality, evaluation, failure modes, and deployment. Strong professionals explain trade-offs in plain language and show work that moved beyond a demo. Ask for examples of production issues they solved, not just models they trained.

Most AI specialists want to know what data is available, how sensitive it is, who owns the outcome, and whether the goal is a prototype or a production system. They also ask about the existing stack, approval process, and how success will be measured. Clear answers help them scope the work accurately from the start.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Dortmund, Germany who have used Artificial Intelligence in their recent projects is 103 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 827 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Dortmund, Germany who have used Artificial Intelligence in their recent projects, 91% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 50% hold at least a Master's degree, and 14% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Dortmund, Germany who have used Artificial Intelligence in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Dortmund, Germany who have used Artificial Intelligence in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (15%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Dortmund, Germany who have used Artificial Intelligence in their recent projects are Information Technology (78%), Education (63%), and Professional Services (63%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Dortmund, Germany who have used Artificial Intelligence in their recent projects are Product Development (74%), Project Management (74%), and Information Technology (70%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Artificial Intelligence

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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