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Kiriakos Krastillis
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.
Dmitry Pankov
Last position:
Freelance Digital Marketing Analyst at Freelance
- Marketing Strategy: Lead the end-to-end analysis and evaluation of cross-channel marketing campaigns across the entire Customer Journey. My focus is identifying optimization potential and deriving clear, actionable recommendations that drive measurable business impact.
- Data Science & AI: Advanced predictive modeling (Churn, LTV), market basket analysis, clustering, and real-time AI-powered audience discovery utilizing RAG/LLMs.
- Marketing Analytics & Measurement: End-to-end attribution analysis, Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), audience segmentation, conversion path analysis, and A/B testing across all major platforms.
- Data Engineering & Reporting: Designing and managing robust, multi-platform data pipelines (BigQuery, GCP) for data consolidation, automated dashboard generation, and critical API integrations.
Alexander Zhirov
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 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
Danny-Michael Busch
Last position:
Senior AI Engineer at Just Add AI GmbH
- Automatic detection of content on various documents
- Recommendation Engine
- Dynamic Pricing
Benjamin Matschke
Last position:
Founder, system architect, and main developer at Institute for Artificial Study (IAS)
- Expert-supervised AI systems for scientific reasoning, model evaluation, and research workflows.
- Built the IAS Problem Solver, an orchestrated system for difficult mathematical reasoning; it achieved 84% in one submitted answer set on the Leipzig mathematics benchmark.
- Built a resumable state-machine pipeline for research-grade mathematics benchmark generation: source selection, LLM-agent-based phenomenon discovery, task synthesis, gold-answer and certificate generation and validation, probing, repair, human feedback, and quality gates, targeting tasks that are difficult, natural, verifiable, and cost-effective.
- Current work extends this into budget-aware AI research workflows for real scientific problems with expert review.
Tech stack: Python, OpenAI/OpenRouter-compatible APIs, embeddings, RAG, SQLite.
Afaq Afaq Saeed
Last position:
Master’s Thesis Researcher – Multiview Perception Evaluation at Volkswagen AG
- Developed an evaluation framework for AI-generated multiview driving videos intended for perception and embodied-AI/VLA-related training workflows.
- Designed automated checks for temporal coherence, cross-camera consistency, semantic correctness, and multiview geometric quality, exposing failure modes relevant to autonomous systems.
- Combined classical computer vision, learned visual representations, and vision-language models to convert complex video artifacts into measurable engineering signals.
- Built repeatable benchmarking and failure-analysis workflows to support model comparison, data-quality decisions, and system-improvement discussions.
Dieter Ratz
Last position:
Driver analyses at Genactis GmbH
- Calculation of attribute importance based on driver analyses
- Interpretation, reporting, and consulting
Heena Patel
Last position:
Retirement Spend & Tax Optimizer Agentic AI App (Vibe Coding) at Personal Project
Self-directed exploration of agentic AI development methods, taken from idea to a working, publicly usable application
- Built an interactive planning tool for modelling retirement withdrawals and tax strategy using an agentic AI (vibe coding) development approach – demonstrating self-directed investigation of new AI-assisted development methods
- Delivered live, tax-aware spending projections and adjustable user inputs; shipped as a free, install-free browser application built in Python, with attention to usability for non-technical users
Kartik Trivedi
Last position:
Master Thesis Student at Fraunhofer LBF
- Topic: Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation for (AUV) Systems using Transformer-Based Vision Models and Sensor Fusion.
- Designed and implemented an end-to-end multi-sensor fusion perception pipeline (Camera, LiDAR, IMU) in ROS
- Developed CNN-based Machine Learning model (YOLOv8) and Transformer-based vision models for real-time object detection
- Processed and clustered 3D LiDAR point clouds using DBSCAN, RANSAC, and voxel grid filtering to enable robust object localisation in noisy environments.
- Designed Bayesian Network models (GeNle) for probabilistic reasoning and sensor-level decision fusion under uncertainty.
- Applied Kalman filtering for sensor state estimation, temporal alignment, and smooth object tracking, reducing false positives in safety-critical scenarios.
- Evaluated system performance under realistic driving dynamics, improving tracking stability and overall perception robustness.
- Built deep learning pipelines for training, validation, and performance evaluation of perception models using sensor data.
Michael Serejenkov
Last position:
Data Scientist at CompuGroup Medical Deutschland AG, docmetric GmbH
Development of AI-based and classical models for analyzing medical and patient data, including medication analyses, diagnosis analyses, forecasts, procedure analyses, dosage analyses, comorbidity analyses, prescription analyses, patient potential analyses, and referral profile analyses. Analyses in the area of Real World Evidence.
- Gathering customer requirements
- Planning the subproject
- Designing and defining KPIs
- Designing and developing models and visualizations of the results using customer dashboards
- Developing and implementing DWH adjustments
- Deriving recommendations for action
Methods, technologies: Simulation, Artificial Intelligence, Python, R, SQL, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon Web Services, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Databricks, Multivariate Statistics
Deepak Reddy Narra
Last position:
Machine Learning Engineer at go AVA GmbH
- Designed and built a multi-tenant Python/Flask API platform with JWT + API-key authentication, scoped access control, and service-level orchestration as the backbone for AI applications.
- Built a multimodal RAG system with hybrid chunking, dense/sparse embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and vector search to deliver grounded, high-precision responses across enterprise data.
- Productionized AI workflows with Docker, CI/CD, Redis-backed async job tracking, webhook callbacks, external AI/media service integrations, and runtime health/reliability controls.
Armin Motahar
Last position:
Graduate research assistant at Duisburg-Essen University
- Conducted advanced machine learning methods on large-scale inequality datasets for forecasting, clustering and feature importance to assess impacts on growth
- Integrated multi-source inequality datasets into a unified panel; applied reproducible preprocessing pipelines including variable harmonization, outlier treatment, normalization, and multiple-imputation methods
- Published four papers in international peer-reviewed journals
Niko Karajannis
Last position:
Co-founder & AI Engineer at KAIKI GmbH
End-to-end responsibility for all products - concept, architecture, development, and production operation as the sole developer; in addition, customer meetings, proposals, and marketing.
Underwriting Copilot - AI assistant for industrial insurance (in production at customer sites)
- Supports underwriters in analyzing industrial insurance submissions - in production use at an industrial insurer.
- Framework-independent RAG architecture with Hybrid Search (BM25 + pgvector) across large, mixed document sets.
- Two-stage evaluation and observability pipeline (code assertions + LLM-as-Judge) that makes answer quality, retrieval accuracy, and citation integrity measurable in a regression-safe way.
Kaiki Menu Analyzer - Data intelligence platform (in production at customer sites)
- Automatically captures and analyzes menu data from around 25,000 German restaurants.
- Scalable 7-container architecture (FastAPI, partitioned PostgreSQL, Redis/RQ) with LLM-supported extraction of structured data from PDF, HTML, and images.
- Full CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), production cloud deployment, interactive dashboards (Dash).
Kaiki GEO Atlas - GEO platform (in production at customer sites)
- Measures brand visibility across five AI engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Claude), each augmented with web search, orchestrated as a DAG workflow pipeline (Dispatcher → Sub-workflows → Scoring → Report) with fail isolation.
- 6-container deployment (FastAPI, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL); LLM cost estimation, PDF audit report, rule-based cross-signal insights (no extra LLM cost).
Data Pipeline & Analytics Platform - competitive analysis in the automotive aftermarket
- Automated data pipeline with gap analysis algorithms and role-based access control; 230+ tests.
- Backend with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy.
Product development (actively in progress)
BankingGPT - AI assistant for complaint management in cooperative banking
- Security architecture at the core: no AI draft reaches the customer without human approval - the approval decision is in auditable code, not in the language model (monotonic: the model may escalate, never downgrade).
- Real agentic building blocks, each with its own boundary: the model chooses tools itself through an MCP server (read-only, allowlist, capped, fail-safe); sensitive cases are handed off via an open A2A protocol (JSON-RPC, Agent Card, message/send/tasks/get; client implemented by me) to a separate specialist agent (securities/law), which never lowers the review requirement (pinned by test).
- Evaluation-driven over ten analysis rounds; uncovered a security flaw through independent review and blind tests that nine automated runs had missed.
- Voice AI frontend, responding live: covered cases are answered in the conversation, sensitive ones escalate before generation; response latency < 7 s measured (local GPU STT/TTS).
Stack & production readiness: Python, pydantic-ai, FastAPI/Celery, PostgreSQL/pgvector, FastMCP, fasta2a, Docker; multi-tenant capable (physical vector isolation per tenant), PII encrypted, OWASP-LLM reviewed, 275 tests, CI/CD; vendor-portable (Ollama / EU Cloud Vertex).
After-Sales Assistant - agentic RAG/GraphRAG assistant on public OEM manuals (automotive after-sales)
- Genuinely agentic on LangGraph: ReAct agent with four tools and conversation memory - the model decides on its own whether to use the manual (RAG, Chroma), a knowledge graph (GraphRAG, Neo4j/Cypher - decodes warning lights), or a workshop/booking service.
- Human-in-the-Loop before the irreversible action: before every appointment booking, the graph pauses (interrupt) and gets the driver's explicit confirmation - the same approval-before-action discipline as in BankingGPT, in a different framework.
- Eval as CI gate: a three-part scorecard (RAGAS grounding + deterministic tool-routing accuracy + DeepEval safety: does the answer mention the warning first when there is a critical warning?) blocks the pipeline; provider-agnostic (OpenAI/Azure/Anthropic), FastAPI with token streaming.
Stack: Python, LangChain/LangGraph, Chroma, Neo4j, RAGAS/DeepEval, FastAPI, Docker.
Farzad Ziaie Nezhad
Last position:
Markerless 3D Pose Estimation
- Developed a deep learning system with multi-view Basler cameras for markerless 3D pose estimation
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Statistics of experts using Clustering
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
14 years
Position duration
2 years
Positions per freelancer
9
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence
Top industries
Information Technology, Education, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Research and Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
94%
Master's degree or higher
83%
Doctorate
32%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 6 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts using Clustering
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 6 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
What clustering does
Clustering links multiple servers or nodes so they work as one system. Companies use it for high availability, failover, load distribution, and shared services that must keep running when a node stops.
Common setups
- Active-passive failover for critical services
- Active-active load sharing across nodes
- Storage clusters for shared data access
- Application clusters for web, API, and database tiers
- Windows Server Failover Clustering and Linux-based cluster stacks
Tools and ecosystem
Strong professionals know the full stack around a cluster, not just the node layout. That includes quorum design, shared storage, heartbeat settings, fencing, network segmentation, and monitoring.
They often work with Windows Server Failover Clustering, Pacemaker, Corosync, Veritas, VMware clustering features, and cloud-native cluster services. The right choice depends on recovery targets, operating system, and workload behavior.
When to bring in help
Companies usually seek freelance expertise when a cluster is unstable, fails over too slowly, or was built without a clear design. The same applies during migrations, upgrades, data center moves, or when teams need a second set of eyes before a production change.
A good specialist can identify single points of failure, clean up quorum logic, and document safe operating procedures. That is especially useful when internal teams are short on time or need deep platform knowledge fast.
What strong specialists deliver
- Clear cluster design and sizing choices
- Safer failover and recovery behavior
- Better node, storage, and network tuning
- Migration plans with less downtime risk
- Monitoring and runbooks for operators
How to judge quality
Strong clustering work is practical and specific. It should reduce outage risk, avoid split-brain situations, and make failover predictable under real load.
Look for professionals who can explain quorum, shared storage, fencing, and dependency order in plain language. They should also know how to test failover, validate recovery, and document what operators must watch in production.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around Clustering.
Clustering is used to keep services available when one node fails and to spread load across several nodes. It is common for databases, file services, business apps, and infrastructure that cannot afford long downtime. In practice, the cluster should make recovery predictable, not just add extra servers.
Clustering focuses on keeping a service running as a coordinated group, often with failover, quorum, and shared state. Load balancing mainly spreads traffic across multiple instances. Many environments use both, but they solve different problems and need different checks.
When people say Clustering, they often mean failover clustering, server clustering, or cluster computing. In Microsoft environments, they may be referring to Windows Server Failover Clustering, often shortened to WSFC. In Linux and Unix setups, Pacemaker and Corosync are common names around the same need.
A strong Clustering specialist usually understands networking, storage, operating systems, monitoring, and recovery design. They also need to know how applications behave during node loss, because some workloads fail over cleanly and others need careful coordination. Scripting and automation are often useful for repeatable checks and safe operations.
Clustering work can look simple at first, but production systems often need someone who has handled real failover events. Small lab setups may be fine with a generalist, but critical services usually benefit from a specialist who has tuned quorum, fencing, and recovery paths before. The more shared state and uptime pressure you have, the more valuable deep experience becomes.
Most Clustering projects can be done remotely because design reviews, configuration changes, and testing are usually accessible through admin tools. On-site work can still help during hardware changes, data center moves, or when network and storage issues need physical checks. Many teams use a remote specialist with a short on-site visit for validation.
Before hiring for Clustering, ask which platform they have worked on, how they approach failover testing, and how they handle quorum and split-brain risk. You should also ask for examples of migrations or recovery work, not only setup work. A good answer is specific about risk, rollback, and verification.
A good Clustering setup fails over cleanly, restores service quickly, and behaves the same way in tests and in production. It should have clear monitoring, simple operator steps, and no hidden single points of failure. If the design is hard to explain, it is usually too hard to trust.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used Clustering in their recent projects is 87 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 699 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used Clustering in their recent projects, 94% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 83% hold at least a Master's degree, and 32% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used Clustering in their recent projects have 14 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used Clustering in their recent projects are English (100%), German (97%), and Spanish (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used Clustering in their recent projects are Information Technology (80%), Education (51%), and Professional Services (40%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used Clustering in their recent projects are Information Technology (88%), Product Development (80%), and Business Intelligence (72%).
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