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Philipp G.

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Machine Learning & Data Engineer

München
Philipp G.

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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
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Stanley A.

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Senior AI Engineer | LLMs, RAG & Agent Systems

Stanley A.

Last position:

Senior AI Engineer & Technical Lead at Independent / Freelance

  • TrendReel, production LLM agent and RAG system (Python, LangChain, OpenAI, Groq/Llama 3, Claude, FastAPI, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL).
  • Designed and built a production multi-step LLM agent system: a script generation agent with a per-platform psychology database, 7 viral narrative frameworks, and structured quality scoring, switching between Claude and Groq backends in real time based on output metrics.
  • Implemented multi-provider LLM routing (Claude primary, Groq/Llama 3 fallback) with priority-chain failover and quality-based provider switching, achieving 95% inference cost reduction while holding measurable quality thresholds.
  • Built an advanced RAG-style retrieval pipeline with per-platform knowledge bases, semantic content matching, and structured output evaluation across 7 decision frameworks, directly analogous to multi-tenant context-based reasoning for enterprise document workflows.
  • BrainyAI, adaptive AI learning platform (Python, LangChain, Groq Llama 3.3-70B, OpenAI, Next.js, Supabase, Redis).
  • Integrated Groq Llama 3.3-70B with education-level-aware prompting, dynamically adjusting vocabulary depth, citation complexity, and reasoning style across four student proficiency tiers.
  • Nexus Prime, multi-tenant SaaS platform for marketing and growth automation (25 modules, 99 backend routers, 153 frontend files).
  • Built a 25-module, 99-router multi-tenant SaaS platform covering ad remix, affiliates, WhatsApp inbox, email, and cart recovery, serving four subscription tiers from $199 to $1,999 per month with integrated Stripe, Paystack, and Flutterwave billing.
  • AI Video Surveillance Platform, multi-tenant edge and cloud computer vision system currently in active client pitch.
  • Designed a multi-tenant AI video surveillance platform combining edge YOLO26 inference on NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX boxes with a central GKE cloud layer (Postgres, Pub/Sub, ClickHouse, R2, Keycloak) for event storage, dashboards, alerting, and multi-tenancy.
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Abhiroop B.

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Software Engineer III

Berlin
Abhiroop B.

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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Mathias W.

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Development of an AI-driven social media automation for identifying topics, generating text, and publishing content

Berlin
Mathias W.

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Implementation of an on-premise OCR solution with information extraction at Mindhopper GmbH

  • Insurance service provider*

Challenge: Business-critical documents were processed through external OCR providers, with ongoing costs, dependency, and data privacy risks for sensitive insurance data.

Implementation:

  • Architecture and production implementation of an on-premise OCR solution with full data ownership
  • Methods for recognizing document structures as the basis for automated further processing
  • ML-, NLP-, and LLM/VLM-based information extraction, especially from invoices and quotations

Success: Replaced external providers: full data ownership, GDPR-compliant processing, and 75% lower recurring OCR costs per year

Used technologies: Python, Docker, Microservices, FastAPI, PyTorch, Torchvision, MongoDB, MySQL

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Santina W.

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Data & Business Intelligence Strategist

Berlin
Santina W.

Last position:

Business Analyst & BI Strategist - Comparison Portal at dataweys (self-employed)

  • Assessment of the existing reporting landscape and strategic bundling of needs
  • Migration and consolidation of reports to Metabase, connected to ClickHouse as the data foundation
  • Building and maintaining data pipelines

Stack: Metabase · ClickHouse · Appsmith · Airflow

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Matthias L.

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Typescript Fullstack Engineer

München
Matthias L.

Last position:

Typescript Fullstack Engineer at Card Complete / Bank Austria

  • Designed and developed the "Credit Risk Engine" using Camunda, Node.js and Typescript
  • Greenfield project for credit card credit assessment for existing and new customers, including EBA KPIs, SCHUFA and CRIF scorings
  • Built and modeled workflows (BPMN) and decision logic (DMN) with Camunda Modeler in close collaboration with stakeholders
  • Implemented service tasks, user tasks and jobs with Nest.js, Node.js and Typescript, including exception handling
  • Backend-for-Frontend (BFF), frontend with React, Tailwind and Ant Design UI library
  • CI/CD with GitLab, Kubernetes/Rancher
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Ivan G.

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Technical Lead

Stuttgart
Ivan G.

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Technical Lead at Porsche Digital GmbH

  • Contributed to the design of the new financial services integration layer and moderated the architectural discussions
  • Oversaw the security concept and approval of the application
  • Prepared infrastructure setup and best practices for the Kotlin backend
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Thomas H.

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Senior MLOps, DevOps and Full-Stack Engineer

Munich
Thomas H.

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Senior MLOps, DevOps and Full-Stack Engineer at Trianel Energy

  • Built and operated an end-to-end MLOps platform on Azure ML and Kubernetes (Kubeflow) for automated deployment, monitoring and scaling of forecasting models (e.g. Temporal Fusion Transformer, Informer, Autoformer)
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for the complete ML lifecycle – from resource provisioning (Terraform), data transformation (Hugging Face Datasets, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA clusters) through training and evaluation to model registry and endpoint deployment
  • Integrated MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, performance monitoring and automated registration in Azure Model Registry
  • Developed and containerized PyTorch training jobs with CUDA (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), centralized logging and cost tracking
  • Configured security (OAuth2) and rate limiting via APIM
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning and model deployment using Terraform, Helm and Azure CLI; integrated with existing market data systems and event pipelines
  • Migrated existing workloads and databases (IONOS → Azure, MongoDB) integrating them into central MLOps workflows and internal networks
  • Extended 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
  • Analyzed and designed a software solution to efficiently process high-volume data (>3000 messages/sec) (market data store)
  • Developed Spring Boot / Java 21 containers with RabbitMQ to distribute market data via MongoDB (Kubernetes) with fast data storage in Redis RMaps, deduplication, forwarding of messages to read model queues and building read models for UI display in MongoDB
  • Integrated RESTHeart to generate a REST API for MongoDB
  • Migrated to MongoDB ClickHouse for mass ingests and automatic deduplication using the ReplicatedMergeTree engine in ClickHouse
  • Built a Python Apache Arrow Flight service for querying the ClickHouse DB in milliseconds for complex queries (gRPC protocol / ClickHouse column-based queries)
  • Developed an Angular frontend to simplify data queries and master data maintenance
  • Used agentic coding with remote and local LLMs (Claude, Ollama Qwen, OpenLLM) and MCP servers
  • Created Python scripts for transforming and cleaning incoming market data (Pandas, scikit-learn)
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Roman K.

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Senior Data Engineer / Cloud Architect

Frankfurt am Main
Roman K.

Last position:

Senior Data Engineer / Cloud Architect at DB Systel

  • Development of a central billing app for cloud costs at DB
  • AWS
  • Python
  • AWS CDK
  • RDS
  • Spark (PySpark)
  • Glue
  • Lambda
  • CI/CD (GitLab)
  • React/Typescript
  • data optimization
  • Scrum
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Karl-W. G.

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Web application for CRM, ERP, calculation

Gemünden (Wohra)
Karl-W. G.

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Software Architect and Developer at Sensor Manufacturer

  • Consulting and development in a greenfield project for acquisition of sensor data.

  • The new solution is meant to replace an existing system, where most of the logic is hardcoded and which is primarily targeted to the German market.

  • The new system is meant to support international markets and the logic and configuration can be changed easily.

  • The new system has to support multiple time zones and international requirements and regulations.

  • Working closely with the in-house software architect, developing Enterprise Architect models, proof-of-concepts and implementations.

  • The complete system has a generative approach, where C# code, database, dashboards and reports are generated from compact descriptions.

  • The system is meant to be stable and secure. Encryption, hashing and signing are used throughout.

  • After extensive performance measurements and various evaluations, we decided to use the ClickHouse database, which provides excellent performance and rather good SQL compatibility.

  • Sparx Enterprise Architect, JAMA, Miro.

  • ClickHouse Database, Linux / Debian / Ubuntu, GitLab.

  • Docker, Cobasoft Log & LogVw.

  • Microsoft: Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET, Test.

  • HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JSON.

  • Edge, FireFox, Chrome, Chromium.

  • Code and HTML generation.

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Recep C.

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Sr. Software Engineer

Berlin
Recep C.

Last position:

Sr. Software Engineer at Endava

  • Designed and deployed scalable REST APIs for enterprise clients
  • Led migration of legacy systems to modern maintainable system, reducing deployment time and enabling daily deployments
  • Mentored junior developers and collaborated cross-functionally to align technical roadmaps with business goals, improving team velocity by 50%.
  • Tech Stack: PHP (Symfony), Golang, PostgreSQL, MySQL, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes
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Patrick S.

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Senior Software Engineer

Halle (Saale)
Patrick S.

Last position:

Senior Software Engineer at Delivery Hero

  • Led a team of 6 software engineers to develop and maintain an AI-driven healthcare platform, enabling automated diagnostics and prescriptions based on real-time ECG data analysis
  • Designed and developed a robust Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) system, integrating HL7 and FHIR APIs to enable seamless interoperability, real-time data exchange, and HIPAA-compliant data handling, improving billing efficiency, claim processing, and regulatory adherence in healthcare operations
  • Migrated a legacy monolithic application to a scalable microservices architecture, enhancing system modularity, scalability and maintainability while implementing key design patterns such as Strangler, Database-per-Service, API Gateway, Saga and CQRS for efficient service communication and transaction management
  • Architected and led a C# 9/.NET 6 microservices ecosystem handling hotel reservations, payments, and loyalty programs, enabling 99.99% uptime across 10+ services
  • Defined OpenAPI/Swagger contracts and auto-generated client SDKs, reducing front-to-backend integration time by 50%
  • Containerized each service with Docker and orchestrated deployments via Kubernetes, slashing release lead time from days to hours
  • Designed PostgreSQL schemas optimized for high-volume transactional workloads and implemented Redis caching layers to accelerate read-heavy endpoints by 80%
  • Built Kafka streaming pipelines for real-time availability updates and audit logs, processing 2 million+ events per hour with end-to-end delivery guarantees
  • Implemented unit and integration tests for React applications using Jest and React Testing Library, ensuring 80%+ test coverage, improving component reliability, and preventing regressions
  • Defined and deployed AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform, while containerizing and orchestrating microservices with Docker and Kubernetes, improving automation and system scalability
  • Built a scalable full-stack booking application using React 18 and Django REST Framework, integrating Celery and Redis for asynchronous task processing, while deploying on GCP with Cloud Run and Firestore, enabling real-time scheduling, payment processing, and automated notifications
  • Mentored junior developers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions, improving team efficiency by 30% while maintaining comprehensive API documentation using Swagger/OpenAPI
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Andreas V.

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Senior Software Developer, Architect

Fürth
Andreas V.

Last position:

Senior Software Developer, Architect at ifm Solutions GmbH

  • IoT platform to connect, transform and get actionable results
  • Built a microservice observability solution to enhance developer and operations insights
  • Did advanced performance optimizations in .NET code, DB and time series
  • Provided architectural consultation for developer teams on performance, scalability, reliability and code quality
  • Evaluated and built PoCs for new technologies including time series DBs and messaging platforms
  • Technologies: C#/F#/Rust, InfluxDB, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, k6, RabbitMQ, EMQX, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure AKS
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Philipp K.

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Frontend Architect

Grasberg
Philipp K.

Last position:

Crisis Infrastructure

  • Working on a project related to redundant crisis infrastructure
  • Used tech: TypeScript, Node, Java, MongoDB, Kafka

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Statistics of experts using ClickHouse

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

19 years

ClickHouse experts in Germany have 19 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

1.9 years

ClickHouse experts in Germany stay in a single position for 1.9 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

12

ClickHouse experts in Germany have completed 12 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

ClickHouse experts in Germany have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Business Intelligence.

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Education

ClickHouse experts in Germany are most in demand in Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Education.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development

ClickHouse experts in Germany earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Product Development.

Bachelor's degree or higher

85%

85% of ClickHouse experts in Germany hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Master's degree or higher

31%

31% of ClickHouse experts in Germany hold at least a Master's degree.

Doctorate

15%

15% of ClickHouse experts in Germany have a doctorate (PhD).

Certifications per freelancer

2

ClickHouse experts in Germany hold 2 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

English, German, Spanish

ClickHouse experts in Germany most often speak English, German, and Spanish.

Speak two or more languages

100%

100% of ClickHouse experts in Germany speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.

Daily rate distribution

0 2 4 6 8
2 of the ClickHouse experts in Germany charge less than €480 per day.
2 of the ClickHouse experts in Germany charge between €480 and €640 per day.
4 of the ClickHouse experts in Germany charge between €640 and €800 per day.
One of the ClickHouse experts in Germany charges between €800 and €960 per day.
3 of the ClickHouse experts in Germany charge €960 or more per day.
<€480 €480-​640 €640-​800 €800-​960 €960+

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.

Average rates of experts in Germany using ClickHouse

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

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Daily rate avg. 713 €

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 692 €

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.

ClickHouse 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 (100%)
  • Banking and Finance (67%)
  • Education (47%)
  • Media and Entertainment (47%)
  • Energy (40%)
  • Healthcare (40%)
  • Retail (33%)
  • Automotive (27%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the technology

Analytical Database

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system built for fast online analytical processing. It runs large-scale queries across event data, logs, metrics and business records, often with low latency. Companies use it for dashboards, observability, customer analytics, product reporting and embedded data applications.

Data Architecture

ClickHouse stores data by column, compresses similar values efficiently and processes analytical queries in parallel. Its MergeTree family supports partitioning, sorting, replication and data lifecycle policies. A strong design balances query speed, ingestion volume, storage cost and consistency requirements.

Ecosystem and Tooling

ClickHouse connects with common data infrastructure and application tools:

  • Kafka and other streaming systems for continuous event ingestion
  • dbt, Airflow and orchestration tools for transformation workflows
  • Object storage, data lakes and cloud deployment environments
  • Grafana, Superset and BI tools for dashboards and exploration
  • ClickHouse Cloud, HTTP, native drivers and SQL-based application access

Typical Projects

Companies bring in ClickHouse specialists for focused delivery or to strengthen an existing data team. Typical work includes:

  • Designing schemas, partitions, sorting keys and materialized views
  • Migrating analytical workloads from PostgreSQL, MySQL or data warehouses
  • Building real-time dashboards for operations, security or product teams
  • Improving slow queries, ingestion pipelines and storage behavior
  • Setting up replicated clusters, backups, monitoring and access controls

When Expertise Matters

Freelance expertise is valuable when event volume grows, dashboards become slow or a conventional transactional database is being used for analytical workloads. It also helps during proof-of-concept work, cloud migration, cluster redesign and incident recovery. In Germany, remote collaboration is common, while on-site workshops can help align data, product and infrastructure teams; English is widely used, with German useful for local stakeholders.

Strong Professionals

The strongest professionals understand both ClickHouse internals and the systems around it. They can explain why a query plan, table engine, data model or ingestion pattern affects performance, then validate the choice with representative workloads. Look for experience with SQL, distributed systems, Kafka, observability, infrastructure automation and data quality, plus clear documentation of operational trade-offs.

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Frequently asked questions

Questions about ClickHouse? Start with the answers below.

ClickHouse is mainly used for fast analytical queries over large volumes of event, log, metric and business data. Companies use it for real-time dashboards, observability, product analytics, security analysis and customer reporting.

ClickHouse is optimized for high-speed analytical scans and aggregations, while PostgreSQL is primarily designed for transactional workloads. Compared with a cloud data warehouse, it can provide strong performance for real-time use cases, but the right choice depends on data freshness, workload shape, governance and operational preferences.

A strong ClickHouse specialist often works with SQL, Kafka, dbt, Airflow, Grafana, cloud infrastructure and data observability. Knowledge of distributed systems, storage design, security and data quality is also valuable when the database supports a production platform.

The required background depends on the scope rather than a fixed duration. A dashboard or query-tuning task may need focused analytical database experience, while cluster design, replication, migration or incident work calls for a professional who has operated ClickHouse in production.

ClickHouse work is often well suited to remote collaboration because schema design, query analysis, infrastructure changes and documentation can be performed online. On-site sessions in Germany may still help with workshops, stakeholder alignment or access to sensitive internal systems.

Ask the professional to explain table engines, sorting keys, partitioning, materialized views and query plans in the context of your workload. A reliable ClickHouse expert will also discuss ingestion failures, replication, backups, monitoring and how performance claims will be tested.

ClickHouse is often a strong fit for structured analytical queries, aggregations and high-volume reporting. Elasticsearch may be more suitable for full-text search and document-oriented retrieval, so the decision should follow the user experience and query patterns the system must support.

A ClickHouse engagement may involve more than SQL: data contracts, streaming behavior, schema evolution, cluster operations and cost control can all affect delivery. Freelancers should clarify data volume, freshness targets, deployment model, access constraints and the responsibilities of the internal team.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used ClickHouse in their recent projects is 89 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 713 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used ClickHouse in their recent projects, 85% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 31% hold at least a Master's degree, and 15% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used ClickHouse in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used ClickHouse in their recent projects are English (93%), German (87%), and Spanish (20%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used ClickHouse in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (67%), and Education (47%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used ClickHouse in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (93%), and Business Intelligence (53%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used ClickHouse

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.

Berlin Hamburg Munich Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Dusseldorf Leipzig Dortmund Essen Bremen Dresden Hanover Nuremberg

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