ClickHouse Experts in Germany
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Peter Herrmann
Last position:
Consultant Financial Data Warehouse Migration Interfaces Reporting at Large bank / central institution
- New connection of the product interfaces of the Financial Data Warehouse (FDW) directly to the Abacus 360 native interfaces
- IT environment: PC, client-server, Citrix remote client, Oracle DB
- Mapping of FDW outbound to Abacus 360 Native
- Analysis of requirements documents, business concepts, and existing interface rules
- Definition of new FDW rules for outbound to Abacus 360
- Adjustment of test scripts for the new interfaces
- Execution of tests to ensure correct data delivery and processing
Philipp Grunert
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
Stanley Agwu
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.
Abhiroop Basu
Last position:
Software Engineer III at Foundry Digital
- Developed and deployed microservices in Kotlin and Spring Boot, integrated AWS Secrets Manager to secure credentials and decreased network calls using Spring cache.
- Refactored Kafka consumer using Spring Kafka with semaphore-based backpressure to cap records and keep heap memory stable under spikes; switched to batch upserts to cut down on database invocations; added Testcontainers integration tests for Kafka and database to pave the way for future changes.
- Automated the financial reconciliation workflow in Spring Boot (Kotlin) using Spring Scheduler, transactional boundaries, JPA/Hibernate on MySQL, and Flyway migrations, saving the accounts team 16+ hours per week.
- Designed and dockerized payments end-to-end test framework in Robot (Python) with reusable keyword libraries and profiles; integrated with GitLab CI (JaCoCo XML and HTML reports) to accelerate releases and lift code coverage to 80%.
- Implemented end-to-end observability on Datadog by instrumenting services with Datadog APM, correlating metrics and logs, provisioning dashboards, and creating monitors with burn-rate alerts and anomalies to harden reliability and give stakeholders clear visibility.
Mathias Wilhelm
Last position:
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
Santina Wey
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
Matthias Lang
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
Thomas Hoefkens
Last position:
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)
Ivan Greguric-Ortolan
Last position:
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
Roman Krivtsov
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
Karl-W. Geitz
Last position:
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.
Recep Can
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
Patrick Seelemeyer
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
Andreas Vilinski
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
Philipp Kunz
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
Position duration
1.9 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Education
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
85%
Master's degree or higher
31%
Doctorate
15%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Germany using ClickHouse
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
What ClickHouse is
ClickHouse is a column-oriented database built for fast analytical queries on large data sets. It is used for dashboards, event analytics, log exploration, and time-series reporting where reads and aggregations matter more than row-by-row updates. Teams often choose it when they need low-latency answers from growing streams of data.
Common use cases
- Product analytics and customer behavior reporting
- Log, metric, and trace analysis
- Real-time dashboards for operations and sales
- Time-series exploration and rollups
- Data marts for BI tools and self-service analysis
Ecosystem and tooling
ClickHouse is usually paired with Kafka, dbt, Airflow, and BI tools such as Superset or Grafana. Specialists also work with materialized views, dictionaries, JSON data, and ingestion paths from streams or batch jobs. Strong work often includes table design, query tuning, retention rules, and shard or replica planning.
When companies bring in specialists
Companies bring in freelance ClickHouse experts when query times rise, ingest jobs fall behind, or an analytics layer needs a cleaner design. That is common in adtech, e-commerce, SaaS, fintech, and monitoring-heavy systems in Germany, where teams may need both remote support and some on-site collaboration with English-speaking specialists.
What strong professionals do
Strong ClickHouse professionals think about data shape first. They choose the right engine, partition keys, ordering keys, and compression settings for the workload. They also check query patterns, merge behavior, access control, and how data moves from source systems into ClickHouse without creating maintenance pain.
Signs you need help
If dashboards are slow, storage is growing too fast, or analysts avoid the system, the model likely needs expert attention. A good specialist can review schema, rewrite costly queries, stabilize ingestion, and document how the cluster should be operated. That work often turns a fragile setup into a dependable analytics layer.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about ClickHouse? Start with the answers below.
ClickHouse is mainly used for fast analytics on large volumes of events, logs, and metrics. It fits dashboards, product reporting, observability data, and other workloads where teams need quick aggregations over wide data sets.
ClickHouse is optimized for analytical reads, not transactional row-by-row work. Compared with PostgreSQL, it is better for scans, aggregations, and large reporting queries; compared with many warehouses, it is often chosen for low-latency querying and direct control over the data model.
ClickHouse is the name most people use today. Some searchers still refer to the older association with Yandex ClickHouse, but the common product name is simply ClickHouse. A specialist should know both terms and the surrounding ecosystem.
A strong ClickHouse specialist should understand table engines, partitioning, ordering keys, materialized views, and query plans. Useful adjacent skills include SQL, Kafka, dbt, Airflow, and BI tooling, plus a solid grasp of data modeling for analytics.
You do not need a crisis before you involve ClickHouse expertise. If the project needs a clean schema, a safer ingestion path, or better query performance, outside support can help early and avoid rework later.
Yes. ClickHouse projects in Germany often work well with remote specialists, especially for schema review, query tuning, and pipeline design. On-site time can still help when data stakeholders, analysts, and platform teams need to align quickly.
A good ClickHouse professional explains trade-offs clearly and asks about query patterns before touching the schema. They should be able to justify engine choice, partition strategy, retention rules, and ingestion design, not just make queries run faster.
A typical ClickHouse engagement includes schema design, load-path review, query optimization, dashboard support, and operational guidance. The best specialists also leave documentation so the team can maintain the setup without guesswork.
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%).
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