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Gerhard K.
Last position:
Senior Project Manager and Site Manager at HENSOLDT Optronics GmbH
- Set-up of the data center in Oberkochen (Defence division)
- Planning of the fiber-optic ring and simulation of Wi-Fi coverage
- Installation plan for WAN and LAN cables for office and production (infrastructure)
- Adaptation of the SAP system (R3) for the Oberkochen site (software)
- IT transformation of the SAP system to SAP HANA
- Planning of network infrastructure and server technologies in the SAP environment
- Pre-sales support and establishment of change management
- Independent coordination of utilities according to time, budget and quality
- Mapping of the project in MS Project and SERVICENow
- Development and design of hardware and software
- Demand management and portfolio management
- Set-up of a risk register and migration plan
- Preparation of payment-supporting documents in coordination with the responsible finance and commercial functions
- Budget: 5 million - 34 FTE
Stefan O.
Last position:
Founder at ProtocolEngine.io
Evidence-led health intelligence platform turning published research into personal health protocols. It scores 430 habits, foods, and supplements against the studies behind them, and moves the score when the evidence moves. Built solo.
- Built the daily ingestion pipeline across PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv: 43,000+ papers from 3,400+ journals processed into 230,000+ typed evidence claims, each one traceable back to the study it came from.
- Designed the six-factor evidence scoring model and the public changelog behind it, so no recommendation ever appears without the papers underneath it. 23,000+ grade changes recorded and explained to date.
- Shipped an entity information model connecting every intervention to its mechanisms, biomarkers, and outcomes: 118 biomarkers with region-specific reference ranges, 77 mechanisms, 32 graded outcomes.
- Built the personalisation layer: blood panel ingestion that reads lab PDFs with a vision model and corrects results for draw time against the user's wake anchor, plus Oura, WHOOP, and Withings integration for daily readiness context.
- Operate eleven specialised review agents over the corpus and codebase, covering paper curation, retrieval quality, health-claim compliance across EU and US regimes, and security.
- Shipped the Evidence Assistant, a RAG assistant that answers from the claim database and cites the underlying papers, plus a B2B practitioner tier, an Expo React Native app, and localisation across 3 languages and 7 markets.
Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Supabase, pgvector, Anthropic Claude, Vercel, DeepInfra.
Kiriakos K.
Last position:
Tech Lead / Architect : OTTO API Platform at OTTO
Maturing their API practices on both a business and technology level. My role covers strategy, architecture, developer advocacy as well as hands-on software engineering, enabling both technical teams and business leadership to adopt and act on API-centric principles effectively. Coincidentally, we also establish GitOps, DX and platform best practices with this project.
Highlights:
- Aligning executives with the initiative by clarifying strategy, replacing misconceptions and myths with facts, clarifying the value of existing assets and enabling informed decision-making
- Formulating a way forward for API Lifecycle Management at OTTO
- Driving platform progress and fostering developer engagement by hands-on engineering work towards strategic goals
API Lifecycle Management, Team Topologies, Organizational Evolution, Regulatory, Platform Advocate, Developer Platform, Communities of Practice, Terraform, Kotlin, Kafka, Kong, WSO2, Apigee, Gravitee, Backstage, AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, API Design, AWS, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Redocly, reactive programming, CDC, Golang, Gin, GitOps, DX (developer experience), stakeholder management, roadmaps, workshops, discovery.
Jens H.
Last position:
Interim CTO (occasional assignments) at Fujitsu / FSAS
Stabilization of an Azure/.NET landscape in live operation.
- Architecture, DevOps, and operational readiness; technical decisions under time pressure
- Azure DevOps, monitoring, ETL/ELT, cloud security, FinOps, and data-mesh-related topics
Technologies: Azure DevOps, .NET, CI/CD, monitoring, FinOps
Olga L.
Last position:
Business Analyst at VisualVest (Union Investment)
- Analyzed, structured, and documented business requirements for digital investment solutions, such as robo-advisors.
- Designed applications for new retirement products, including user flows, UX requirements, and functional specifications.
- Modeled and optimized business processes and coordinated with stakeholders while taking regulatory requirements in the financial sector into account.
Sandra K.
Last position:
Webinar Leader - Blackout Prevention and Preparation at SANDRA KLINKENBERG • Management Consultant, self-employed independent business consultant
- Webinar on Blackout - Brownout - Power failure - how do I recognise it and what can I do?
Martin H.
Last position:
Lead Product Owner at Energy
- Team leadership: Prioritization and coordination of four cross-functional teams.
- Platform strategy: Development and implementation of strategies to optimize existing IT platforms.
- Stakeholder management: Active management of expectations and communication with internal and external stakeholders.
- Program and innovation management: Prioritization and coordination of cross-department projects as well as innovation initiatives.
- Product Owner consulting: Advising Product Owners with a focus on product development and continuous product improvement.
- Organizational development: Improving communication and decision-making structures across all organizational levels.
- Change management: Implementing best-practice change management methods to ensure continuous optimization and innovation.
- Quality assurance: Ensuring high quality standards in processes, services, and deliverables.
Patrick H.
Last position:
Lead Technical Recruiter | Business Partner AWS EMEA at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Partnered with senior stakeholders across AWS EMEA to drive talent strategy, partner development, and business growth in the cloud ecosystem.
- Focus areas:
- Collaboration with Sales & Partner Management on Go-to-Market initiatives
- Advisory on long-term resource strategy for Cloud, Data, and Security Divisions
- Supporting internal innovation teams in scaling AI and automation projects
- Result: Contributed to AWS’s expansion in Central Europe by aligning business, technology, and people strategy.
Julian H.
Last position:
IT Project Manager AI Product for Automating Knowledge-Intensive Processes at Leading provider of large-scale catering & food services
Project: Design and implementation of an AI product for four business use cases
Project management for an AI project at a leading provider of large-scale catering and food services, where a production-ready AI product for four use cases was implemented together with an external development partner: automated briefings based on CRM and document data, voice-based capture and structuring of reports, detection and consolidation of duplicates in master data, and data-based market analyses. A key focus was a data-protection-compliant architecture that passed the internal IT security review and enabled production use.
- Translation of business requirements into clearly defined AI use cases with a focused product scope and clear value proposition
- Selection and evaluation of models and architecture options for text extraction, speech-to-text, and context enrichment from business systems, including LLM integration, function calling, and retrieval
- Development and implementation of an architecture with European hosting, data minimization, and masking of personal data as a prerequisite for approval
- Management of interfaces between business departments, IT, IT security, and the external development partner under restrictive data access conditions
- Coordination with the CIO and executive management levels on data access, risk assessment, and approval decisions
- Preparation for the transition to production use
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.
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
Ines L.
Last position:
UX designer for AI products at freelance
- Designing AI-first workflows that integrate AI into existing product experiences
- Developing UX concepts for prompt management, reusable and combined prompt workflows, tagging, search and information organisation
- Creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity interfaces in Figma
- Defining reusable UI patterns, components and interaction logic for scalable products
- Exploring human-AI interaction patterns with emphasis on user control, transparency and manageable cognitive load
- Translating product requirements and technical constraints into developer-ready UX/UI specifications
Alexander B.
Last position:
Senior Data Engineer at RWE AG
Architected and maintained data products for renewable energy operations, covering wind turbine, grid-meter, and weather data. Built scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Azure Databricks using Delta Lake (bronze/silver/gold layers) and processed data in various formats, including structured and semi-structured data. Contributed to a data quality framework supporting table and column documentation, outlier detection, and completeness metrics across all datasets within a data product. In addition, implemented a DORA KPI Databricks dashboard used across all data products. Optimized CI/CD processes in Azure DevOps to streamline deployment across development, test, and production environments.
Technology stack: Azure Databricks, PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Azure Data Lake, APIs, Dremio, Azure DevOps, YAML, Git, Databricks Workflows, Application Insights, Terraform, OpenAI API, Codex, LLM-assisted workflows
Prasad T.
Last position:
Solution Architect / Senior Manager – DTC E-Commerce Platform at BRITA
- Led discovery phase and POC for Shopware to Shopify Plus migration across EMEA markets, evaluating platform suitability, technical architecture, and multi-brand/multi-country capabilities against business requirements.
- Designed reference architecture for Shopify Plus implementation incorporating headless front-end patterns (Vue.js, Nuxt.js), CMS integration (Magnolia), and Azure middleware (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus) for 11 EMEA markets.
- Defined migration strategy analyzing data mapping, cutover approach, and zero-downtime deployment patterns using Varnish caching, GitOps pipelines, and CI/CD orchestration across six vendor teams.
- Architected multi-tenant Shopify Plus governance model with centralized admin, localized storefront customization, and compliance controls (GDPR, data residency).
- Prototyped AI-driven search optimization (LLM.txt, JSON-LD) for product discoverability in Google AI results, demonstrating post-launch performance opportunities.
- Defined EMEA expansion roadmap for 15+ markets through C-level strategic workshops, identifying phased rollout, market-specific configurations, and resource requirements.
- Tech Stack: React, Nuxt.js, Vue.js, Magnolia CMS, Shopware, Shopify Plus, Azure (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Front Door), Varnish, SAP, MS Dynamics, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, Kafka
Robin W.
Last position:
Developer at agentic-engineer.online
agentic-engineer.online is my publicly testable live demo and at the same time the platform where I show my work. Originally created as a recruitment trial task, I have since continued to run it as my own demo, learning, and product project — on a Hetzner VPS behind a Cloudflare tunnel, through a multi-stage AI-orchestrated deploy pipeline with snapshot rollback. If a deploy step breaks, the system falls back to the last clean snapshot, the script is adjusted, the test repeated — empirical, test-driven, without hand tuning.
- Technically behind it: Python and FastAPI, an OpenRouter model cascade, SQLite persistence, and Cloudflare edge tuning.
- I am the developer and the strictest customer of my own AI work in one person — what started as a prototype has become a tool I use every day and against which I test my own products.
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Statistics of experts using Big Data
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years

Position duration
3 years

Positions per freelancer
12

Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development

Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
92%
Master's degree or higher
65%
Doctorate
17%

Certifications per freelancer
3

Most common languages
German, English, French

Speak two or more languages
98%
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 Germany 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.
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Explore rate insightsAverage rates of experts in Germany using Big Data
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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.
Big Data 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 (83%)
- Professional Services (46%)
- Banking and Finance (46%)
- Manufacturing (44%)
- Automotive (36%)
- Education (35%)
- Healthcare (33%)
- Retail (32%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Big Data covers
Big Data refers to methods and systems for collecting, storing and processing datasets that are too large, fast-changing or varied for conventional databases. Companies use it to consolidate operational data, detect patterns, support forecasting and power customer-facing products. The work spans batch processing, real-time streams and governed analytics.
Platforms and architecture
A Big Data solution may combine data lakes, lakehouses, distributed storage and cloud services. The Hadoop ecosystem remains relevant for established clusters, while Apache Spark supports scalable batch and streaming workloads. Apache Kafka, Flink, Trino, Databricks and cloud tools such as Amazon EMR, Google BigQuery or Azure Synapse often connect ingestion, processing and analysis.
Common deliverables
- Design a data lake or lakehouse with clear zones and ownership
- Build ingestion pipelines for databases, APIs, files and event streams
- Process and enrich data with Spark, Flink or SQL
- Create reliable datasets for reporting, machine learning and operational use
- Add monitoring, lineage, access controls and quality checks
When companies need specialists
Freelance expertise helps when data volumes outgrow existing systems, a migration needs an independent delivery team or streaming data must become dependable. Specialists are also valuable when a company needs to connect siloed sources, reduce pipeline failures or establish governance before expanding analytics. In Germany, remote collaboration is common, while regulated industries may also require planned on-site work and German-language communication.
Skills around the ecosystem
Strong professionals combine distributed systems knowledge with practical data engineering and software skills. They understand SQL, Python or Scala, containerized deployments, orchestration, APIs and cloud infrastructure. They also work with schema design, security, metadata, data contracts and cost-aware storage. Experience with business intelligence or machine learning helps when pipelines must serve several teams.
How to assess quality
Look for specialists who can explain trade-offs between a data warehouse, data lake and lakehouse rather than proposing one stack for every case. Ask how they handle late events, schema changes, retries, partitioning, privacy and observability. Good delivery includes documented architecture, reproducible deployments, tested transformations and clear ownership after handover. The strongest professionals connect technical choices to measurable business use without hiding operational complexity.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about Big Data? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
Big Data is used to collect and process high-volume, fast-moving or diverse information. Typical applications include fraud detection, recommendation systems, IoT monitoring, logistics planning, financial analysis and machine learning preparation.
Big Data architectures support broader data types and distributed processing across large or rapidly changing sources. A traditional data warehouse is often simpler for structured reporting, while a lakehouse or hybrid design can combine flexible storage with governed analytics.
A strong Big Data specialist usually brings SQL, Python or Scala, cloud infrastructure and workflow orchestration. Knowledge of Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, data modeling, containers, security and observability is also useful, depending on the delivery scope.
The right level depends on the system’s scale, risk and existing architecture. A focused pipeline can suit a capable professional with targeted experience, while a migration or streaming platform needs a specialist who has handled distributed failures, governance and production operations.
Big Data work is often well suited to remote collaboration because repositories, cloud environments and monitoring tools can be accessed securely online. On-site workshops may still help with architecture decisions, stakeholder alignment or projects subject to strict access rules, and German-language communication may be important for some teams.
Apache Spark is a strong choice for unified batch and streaming processing, broad language support and a mature ecosystem. A specialist should still compare it with Flink, SQL engines or managed cloud services based on latency, workload shape, operations and cost.
Ask a Big Data freelancer to describe a comparable architecture, including ingestion, storage, processing, testing and monitoring. Review how clearly they explain trade-offs, failure handling, security and handover rather than judging quality from tool names alone.
The Hadoop ecosystem introduced widely used approaches for distributed storage and processing on clusters. Many modern projects use cloud-native or managed services instead, but professionals may still need to integrate with Hadoop-based environments or migrate data and workloads from them.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 835 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects, 92% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 65% hold at least a Master's degree, and 17% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects are German (99%), English (97%), and French (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects are Information Technology (83%), Professional Services (46%), and Banking and Finance (46%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Big Data in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Business Intelligence (75%), and Product Development (74%).
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