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Loretta Acheampong

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Product Sustainability | LCA | ESG | Sustainability Regulatory Compliance|

Brühl
Loretta Acheampong

Last position:

Master Thesis Student at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Future Fuels

  • Managed end-to-end data workflows for LCA and carbon footprint assessments, including data collection, validation, structuring, and LCI modeling for metal alloys, ensuring high data quality and traceability.
  • Developed a basic Excel automation tool to simplify carbon footprint calculations of metal alloys, replacing repetitive modelling in the software that previously took several hours.
  • Communicated environmental impact results through quantitative analysis, visualizations and reports to support the broader project strategy.
  • Performed environmental hotspot and scenario analysis to identify key impact drivers and assess opportunities for emissions reduction.
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Tom Gufler

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Digitalization Consultant

Munich
Tom Gufler

Last position:

Digitalization Consultant at LichtBlick SE – Green Electricity & Innovation

  • Concept & IT implementation of inbound B2C campaigns, BPM process documentation
  • Cross-departmental implementation of multiple whitepapers / guides
  • Setup of the customer journey with MS Dyn365 / CRM: forms, landing pages, campaigns
  • Project controlling, process documentation, testing and training / coaching, analytics reports
  • Hands-on implementation & on-time launch of all campaigns for digital new customer acquisition
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Robin Walter Scherler

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Agentic Engineer · AI Engineer · Software Engineer · Context Engineer

Neidenstein
Robin Walter Scherler

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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Pierre Bernard

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Senior Engineering Manager

Berlin
Pierre Bernard

Last position:

Senior Engineering Manager at Audibene GmbH

  • Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with Product Owner to define functional and technical requirements
  • Quarterly Roadmap definition with Executives and Product Owner
  • Fix bug and develop new features in Go and Typescript
  • Manage and mentor full stack engineering team
  • System Design in a micro-service environment
  • Guarantee application security
  • Improve engineering efficiency and deliverable quality
  • Support automation with agentic-AI workflow
  • Achievements:
  • Improved security and data privacy awareness in the team with workshops around best practices, security measures and attacks types
  • Conceptualized, designed and successfully released a new real-time chat application for our partners improving partner/company relationship and collaboration efficiency in Go and Typescript
  • Reduced meeting hours for engineers by restructuring projects preparation workflow in collaboration with product team
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Sascha Metzger

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Senior eCommerce & AI Engineer

Augsburg
Sascha Metzger

Last position:

Senior eCommerce & AI Engineer at UNIQBIT AG

Re-platforming an e-commerce shop to a microservice architecture

  • Goal: Replace an outdated Shopware system with a scalable, future-proof solution based on microservices and a headless architecture.
  • Led a full architecture consulting process and defined the microservice boundaries based on a headless architecture with commercetools as PIM/OMS and Next.js as the frontend solution.
  • Developed and integrated several decentralized services (e.g. internationalization, personalization).
  • Took over the configuration of central third-party systems such as Contentstack and Algolia.
  • Built a stable cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud with monitoring via Grafana.

Technologies: commercetools, Next.js, Contentstack, Algolia, Google Cloud, Grafana, TypeScript, Shopware

Development of an international e-commerce platform

  • Goal: Build a high-performance, user-friendly and international e-commerce platform.
  • Defined a scalable, high-performance and maintainable software architecture that served as the foundation for the platform's international expansion.
  • Selected a best-of-breed technology stack that enabled the development of an industry-leading shop and reduced development effort for new features by 30%.
  • Ensured seamless integration of critical third-party systems (PIM, CRM, ERP) to guarantee end-to-end business processes and a consistent data foundation.
  • Implemented comprehensive tracking and analytics tools for continuous performance monitoring and optimization of the customer journey.

Technologies: React.js, Next.js, commerceTools, Algolia, Salesforce, Heroku, CI/CD, PHP, Google Analytics

AI-powered personalization and customer data platform in e-commerce

  • Goal: Replace static content with a dynamic, AI-based personalization strategy to increase user relevance and automate marketing processes.
  • Designed and built a customer data platform to aggregate and combine customer and analytics data from distributed sources.
  • Implemented automated categorization of customer profiles as the basis for delivering personalized content and product recommendations in the Shopware frontend.
  • Developed a semantic similarity algorithm based on Python and OpenAI to calculate product and content similarity from user profiles.
  • Built the technical connection to retail media platforms to control external ad placements along the customer journey.

Technologies: Shopware 6, Python 3, OpenAI, Elasticsearch, PHP, Symfony, Twig

Shopware tracking & consent architecture (GDPR) for 4 online shops

  • Goal: Build a unified, GDPR-compliant tracking infrastructure across multiple shops with central consent management across several Shopware instances.
  • Defined a comprehensive tracking guide and developed a modular architecture compatible across multiple Shopware versions.
  • GDPR-compliant integration of Usercentrics and Adobe Launch through a central tag manager.
  • Full tracking setup (page, order, product, user) incl. partner-specific tracking (Emarsys, Channelpilot, etc.).
  • Detailed event and error tracking to proactively identify technical drop-offs.

Technologies: Shopware, Adobe Analytics, Usercentrics, Tag Manager, PHP, MySQL, GDPR

AI/LLM search engine with RAG and hybrid search (Python, Elasticsearch)

  • Goal: Build an AI-powered search engine with RAG architecture and hybrid search to accurately match service providers from over 500,000 company records.
  • Developed an automated data pipeline (web scraping + LLM) that continuously crawls company data and converts it into structured formats using LLMs.
  • Implemented a RAG workflow incl. vectorization for semantic search to increase search accuracy and relevance.
  • Configured and fine-tuned Elasticsearch for hybrid search (vector + keyword search).
  • End-to-end development of backend API, frontend and deployment on live servers.

Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Elasticsearch, LLM, RAG, React, Docker, Web Scraping

AI/computer vision system (Python, ML) – object detection under difficult conditions

  • Goal: Develop an AI-powered recognition system with reliable performance even in rain, fog, snow and darkness.
  • Built and annotated a large training dataset incl. difficult conditions.
  • Trained a YOLO-based object detection model; carried out systematic error analysis and improved data quality and preprocessing.
  • Coordinated with stakeholders through regular status updates.

Technologies: Python, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, PyTorch, YOLO, OpenCV

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Andreas B.

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Partner / Co-Founder

München
Andreas B.

Last position:

Partner / Co-Founder at Nexarro

  • Launched and leading a new venture in consulting & digital transformation.
  • Supporting clients in transforming their organisations, scaling growth strategies, building digital operating models, and creating future proof organisations.
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Julia Weinmann

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CRM & Online Marketing Expert & Founder DMX | Digital Manufactory

Landshut
Julia Weinmann

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External Campaign Manager CRM & Email Marketing Natüür at Natüür

  • Strategic rebuild and initial integration of the B2B CRM as the basis for a scalable and sustainably automated lead management process
  • Building and optimizing CRM processes and CRM campaign management לאורך the entire customer lifecycle
  • Developing, planning, and implementing lead generation strategies for trade fairs, roadshows, partner sites, and other relevant B2B touchpoints
  • Designing and modeling differentiated customer journeys and workflows for different target groups, touchpoints, and phases of the customer lifecycle
  • Designing first-touch and branding flows to systematically move new contacts into automated CRM journeys
  • Building lead nurturing processes for automated qualification, activation, and further development of leads until they are ready for sales
  • Designing and implementing marketing automations to reduce manual processes and scale the delivery of relevant content
  • Developing and optimizing automated lifecycle campaigns based on user behavior, interactions, interests, and lead status
  • Campaign management for email marketing and B2B communication, including editorial newsletters, trigger and automation emails, as well as ad hoc campaigns
  • Responsibility for newsletter sign-ups as well as optimization of the underlying processes and consent journeys
  • Consent management and optimization of opt-in processes as the basis for compliant and scalable CRM communication
  • Planning and implementation of ad hoc campaigns including A/B testing as well as continuous optimization of content, sending logic, and conversion
  • Analysis and evaluation of CRM performance and derivation of specific measures to increase engagement, lead quality, and conversion
  • CRM strategy consulting and workflow modeling with a focus on automation, scalability, and a consistent customer experience
  • Technical setup and structuring of data instances as well as coordination and support of data migrations
  • Optimization of data and system processes as the basis for automated and target-group-specific CRM communication
  • Internal and external stakeholder management as well as coordination of interfaces and external agencies
  • Technical project management from strategic concept development through implementation to analysis and continuous optimization
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Michael Seliger

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Technical Lead, Development and Requirements Gathering

Jena
Michael Seliger

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Technical Lead, Development and Requirements Gathering at Decoupled frontend for a website in the pharmacy sector

  • Ongoing support and further development.
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Michael Henze

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Project Manager / Agile Coach / Interim Manager

Schönau am Königssee
Michael Henze

Last position:

Agile Coach at BMW AG (Freelance)

  • Workshop preparation and facilitation for the BMW digital team to plan the Matko Cockpit product delivery for the second half of the year.

  • Team building and preparation of the Matko Cockpit product delivery roadmap.

  • Stakeholder alignment and workshop design.

  • Managing the workshop agenda, identifying focus topics, and topic prioritization.

  • Review of team sentiment and capturing impressions.

  • Identification, summary, and documentation of action items.

  • Methodologies used: Ice Breaker, Brain Storming, Story Points, Magic Estimation, Hypothesis Statement, Problem Statement, Dot Voting, and Parking Lot.

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Yannik Süß

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Freelance - IT Data Project Manager

Aschheim
Yannik Süß

Last position:

Freelance - IT Data Project Manager at Messe München GmbH

  • Integrated data from various sources into the Datawarehouse using Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring data integrity and optimizing performance
  • Developed and implemented multiple data visualization solutions in PowerBI, Excel, and Looker Studio, focusing on scalability and efficiency
  • Managed close stakeholder relationships, ensuring consistent communication and understanding of data needs
  • Conducted thorough requirement analysis to align with business objectives
  • Led cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven projects on time
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Boris Azar

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Owner and Manager

München
Boris Azar

Last position:

Owner and Manager at UBITEQ.io

  • Management of digital business
  • Design, build and run solutions based on ubiquitous technologies
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Jennifer Kiunke

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AI Product Manager and Engineer

Munich
Jennifer Kiunke

Last position:

AI Product Manager and Engineer at Human-in-the-Loop Studio

  • Architected and built a GenAI-based automated asset-generation tool for social media campaigns using Nano Banana and Python. It takes a campaign brief, target audience, and two products as input, generates optimized prompts for image and text creation, and uses functions for text positioning, visually appealing overlays, resizing, and structured uploads to AWS S3.
  • Engineered and built a multi-agent news intelligence platform with specialized roles including retriever agents (Tavily web scraping), synthesizer agents, and Claude as curator/orchestrator, designing autonomous agent collaboration patterns using LangChain and RAG.
  • Built an autonomous customer service agent using n8n and LLMs, delivering end-to-end support automation with transparent reasoning, governance controls, and scalable workflow orchestration using Python and vector databases.
  • Developed a financial validation engine featuring ML-powered anomaly detection for invoice plausibility, compliance automation, and risk mitigation using TensorFlow and SQL.
  • Created a cost optimization application using OCR, AI, Pandas, and NumPy for data analysis to identify cost optimization potential.
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Marc Clasen

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Consultant and Interim Manager

Hamburg
Marc Clasen

Last position:

Consultant and Interim Manager at Marc Clasen Consultancy

  • Strategic marketing and IT consulting with a focus on CRM
  • Consulting for companies after buyout and restructuring of the business (eCommerce, marketing, IT, product management) in retail, automotive, DIY, building materials, TIMES, and tourism
  • Strategy development for marketing, sales, and digital strategy, among other things
  • Running IT tenders and implementation (ERP, CRM, POS, eCom, PIM, CMS, DAM)
  • Implementation and data integration of CRM in marketing including loyalty program and campaigns
  • Support for pitches for IT systems, implementation service providers, and agencies
  • Development of omni-channel sales campaigns (online and offline) including customer journey and definition of insights and channels
  • International scaling of business models
  • Processes, organization, setup, and optimization of agile structures
  • Development of SEO/SEA/content and CRM processes and structures
  • Building marketing structures and strategies
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Bhanu Prakash Avula

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CRM and MarTech Expert

Poing
Bhanu Prakash Avula

Last position:

CRM and MarTech Expert at Merkle DACH

  • Configure and customize Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, and Data Cloud to meet client-specific requirements, ensuring seamless deployment and scalability
  • Develop and maintain custom APIs, automation workflows, SQL queries, Liquid Script, AMP script, and SSJS scripts for data processing, personalization, and dynamic content
  • Design and implement multi-channel campaigns and customer journeys across email, SMS, push notifications, and in-app messaging
  • Build and maintain integrations with CRM systems, analytics platforms, data warehouses, and third-party tools using REST/SOAP APIs and connectors
  • Develop data models, ETL processes, and pipelines to synchronize data across systems, enabling a unified customer view and real-time engagement
  • Optimize platform performance by implementing error handling, logging, and monitoring mechanisms
  • Provide development support for campaign setup, deployment, and monitoring
  • Optimize customer journeys and automation workflows using Journey Builder, Audience Builder, and Automation Studio
  • Conduct A/B testing, performance analysis, and reporting to enhance campaign effectiveness and ensure maximum ROI
  • Design and maintain data extensions, segmentation strategies, and audience targeting rules for effective customer communication
  • Leverage Data Cloud capabilities to unify customer profiles, enable predictive analytics, and personalize customer interactions
  • Act as a technical SME, providing support for complex issues related to platform configuration, integrations, and campaign execution
  • Troubleshoot API integrations, scripting errors, automation failures, and data synchronization issues
  • Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to resolve critical issues and deploy fixes
  • Establish development standards, reusable templates, and best practices to ensure consistency and scalability
  • Document technical designs, workflows, configurations, and troubleshooting guides
  • Conduct training sessions and knowledge transfers to empower internal teams and clients
  • Develop custom dashboards and performance reports to track campaign metrics and data trends
  • Stay updated with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, and Data Cloud releases and industry trends
  • Evaluate and implement new tools and AI-powered solutions for predictive analytics, segmentation, and personalization

Discover over 15,000 top freelancers

Statistics of experts using Customer Data Platform

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

20 years

Position duration

2.9 years

Positions per freelancer

9

Top business areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development

Top industries

Information Technology, Retail, Professional Services

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

88%

Master's degree or higher

46%

Doctorate

13%

Certifications per freelancer

3

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

97%

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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Average rates of experts in Germany using Customer Data Platform

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

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Daily rate avg. 905 €

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Median rate 880 €

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 a CDP does

A Customer Data Platform brings customer data into one place and turns it into usable profiles. It collects events, traits, and identifiers from websites, apps, CRM systems, and offline sources, then makes that data ready for segmentation and activation. Teams use it to understand journeys and keep marketing and service data aligned.

Typical use cases

  • Build unified customer profiles from multiple source systems
  • Set up audience segments for email, ads, and personalization
  • Connect consent, identity, and event tracking flows
  • Prepare data for CRM, analytics, and customer service tools
  • Support customer 360 views for marketing and product teams

Core ecosystem

A strong CDP setup usually touches tag managers, APIs, identity resolution, data warehouses, and downstream activation tools. Common terms around the field include composable CDP, RealCDP, Segment, Tealium, mParticle, and Adobe Experience Platform. The right specialist knows how to fit the platform to existing data architecture instead of forcing every source into one pattern.

When freelance help fits

Companies bring in freelance experts when a CDP project has stalled, when tracking is inconsistent, or when data needs to move between tools without breaking governance. That is common during new launches, migration work, and cleanup after several teams have added their own events. In Germany, this often means working with mixed local and international teams and clear documentation in English.

What strong experts deliver

Strong professionals design clean event models, map identifiers carefully, and keep consent and activation logic consistent. They can debug why profiles do not merge, why audiences do not sync, or why a source sends the wrong payload. They also know how to balance marketing needs with data quality, privacy rules, and system limits.

What to look for

A good Customer Data Platform specialist asks about sources, identities, consent states, and the systems that receive activated data. They should be able to explain event schemas, profile stitching, audience logic, and dependencies on the warehouse or reverse ETL layer. The best experts document decisions clearly so teams can maintain the setup after handover.

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Frequently asked questions

Not sure where to start with Customer Data Platform? These answers cover the essentials.

A strong Customer Data Platform is used to collect customer signals from web, app, CRM, and offline touchpoints, then turn them into unified profiles. Companies use it for segmentation, audience activation, personalization, and customer journey analysis. It becomes most useful when several teams need the same customer view but work in different tools.

A Customer Data Platform sits between raw data storage and customer-facing activation. A warehouse stores broad data for analysis, while a CRM manages relationship records and workflows. A CDP focuses on identity, profile building, and sending usable audiences or traits into marketing and service tools.

The most common search terms are CDP, Customer Data Platform, and the names of well-known tools such as Segment, Tealium, mParticle, and Adobe Experience Platform. Some teams also talk about a composable CDP when the platform is assembled with a warehouse and activation tools. The right search term depends on whether you need the category or a specific vendor.

A good Customer Data Platform specialist usually understands tracking plans, event schemas, identity resolution, consent handling, and API work. Warehouse knowledge helps too, especially when the CDP feeds analytics or reverse ETL workflows. Familiarity with marketing tools, tag management, and data governance makes handover much smoother.

A Customer Data Platform project can start with limited context, but strong results depend on access to source maps, event definitions, and downstream use cases. The specialist should see how profiles are used, which channels receive audiences, and where data quality breaks today. Without that, the work often becomes guesswork instead of a fix.

Most Customer Data Platform work can be done remotely if the team shares documentation, tracking access, and clear communication channels. On-site time can help during discovery, stakeholder workshops, or when several business teams need alignment fast. For Germany-based companies, many projects work well with a remote-first setup and occasional in-person sessions.

Look for a Customer Data Platform specialist who can explain how identity stitching, event quality, and activation rules fit together. Good signs are clear questions about source systems, consent states, and destination logic rather than vague platform talk. A strong portfolio should show real implementation work, troubleshooting, and clean documentation.

The most common problems in a Customer Data Platform rollout are messy event naming, duplicate identities, unclear consent logic, and weak ownership between teams. Another risk is pushing data into the platform before the use cases are defined. Good experts prevent this by designing the model first and validating every activation path.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Customer Data Platform in their recent projects is 113 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 905 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Customer Data Platform in their recent projects, 88% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 46% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Customer Data Platform in their recent projects have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Customer Data Platform in their recent projects are German (97%), English (97%), and French (23%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Customer Data Platform in their recent projects are Information Technology (80%), Retail (50%), and Professional Services (43%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Customer Data Platform in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Project Management (73%), and Product Development (70%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Customer Data Platform

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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