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Peter S.

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Senior AI, Data & Computer Vision Expert

Mannheim
Peter S.

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Senior ML Engineer & AI Researcher at Anonymous Client

Project: Defect Generation on Test-Bench Images of Metal Surfaces Environment: Automated Visual Inspection (AVI), Metallurgy & Manufacturing

  • Objective & Implementation: Designed, architected, and trained Generative Adversarial Networks (Pix2PixHD / SPADE) for image-to-image transformation. Targeted generation of synthetic material defects (e.g., cracks, inclusions, scale) on rough metal surfaces under real test-bench lighting conditions for privacy-compliant and efficient dataset expansion (data augmentation).
  • Technical Design: Implemented robust Generative AI and computer vision pipelines in Python and PyTorch. Used semantic segmentation approaches for mask-controlled defect synthesis and subsequent evaluation with EfficientDet object detection models.
  • Business Impact: Massive dataset upscaling (10x) without time-consuming and costly physical test-bench runs, while significantly improving the detection performance of automated inspection systems.

Technologies & Skills Used: Python | PyTorch | SPADE | Pix2PixHD | EfficientDet | Machine Learning | Semantic Segmentation | Computer Vision

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Kai Z.

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Enterprise Program & Transformation Management Governance • Delivery • Business & Technology Alignment

München
Kai Z.

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Enterprise Program Manager / Program Lead at YouGov Consumer Panel Services

The program supports the comprehensive realignment of the German Consumer Panel Services business. It combines a significant panel boost with the reprocessing of historical data and the integration of new receipt data. By significantly expanding and stabilizing the panel with the involvement of external partners, the aim is to improve the validity of the data base and create a reliable foundation for methodology, weighting and customer reporting. At the same time, historically grown processes for data delivery, OCR, matching, item QC, methodology and reporting are being harmonized, further developed technologically and reorganized. The goal is a scalable end-to-end landscape with higher data quality, clear responsibilities, reliable governance and sustainably manageable operational processes.

  • Overall management of the restatement program, including the integrated roadmap as well as milestones, dependencies, risks and management decisions.
  • Coordination of the panel boost and alignment of the required data deliveries, quality requirements and prerequisites for methodology, weighting and reporting.
  • Alignment of business, product, data science, technology, operations and external partners around a shared target picture, aligned priorities and an integrated approach.
  • Design of the organizational change triggered by the fundamental realignment of the data base, methodology and management logic, which has a lasting impact on established decision-making and collaboration patterns.
  • Establishment and further development of governance, reporting and escalation structures as well as program-wide monitoring and operational processes for reliable management and sustainable handover.
  • Management of critical data, technology and provider dependencies, including reprocessing, OCR transition and the timely synchronization of delivery, testing, methodology and reporting.
  • Orchestration of international collaboration with teams and stakeholders in Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal and Romania, as well as with external suppliers in Germany and Austria.

Impact Areas and Expertise: Program & Delivery Leadership, Business & Technology Alignment, Organization & Transformation, Governance & Sustainable Operations, Strategy & Target, Methodic Leadership, Transformation & Change Leadership, Executive Advisory

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Dmitry P.

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Freelance Digital Marketing Analyst

Berlin
Dmitry P.

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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.
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Michael N.

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Senior ML Engineer | AI Engineer | Problem Solver

Eichenau
Michael N.

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Senior AI Engineer | Forward Deployed Engineer at Tiefbau

  • Development of an AI-powered project organization tool for a civil engineering company that intelligently links project, task, tender, schedule, and document data through a knowledge graph.
  • Implementation of AI features for document analysis, information extraction, context-based assistance, and voice-based data capture based on Microsoft Azure AI, reducing administrative effort, making information available faster, and supporting project teams in decision-making.
  • Tech stack: Python, React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Claude Code, Codex, Graphify, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Speech, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Entra ID, Docker, Git, CI/CD.
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Mirza K.

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Agentic AI for a DeepResearch project

München
Mirza K.

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Agentic Automation and a RAG system

  • This project involved extraction of intelligence data to support report writing for a company that provides geopolitical, global, commercial intelligence. The data have been gathered from a number of resources (interview transcripts, online data, internal documents), and then a knowledge base has been build from it. This was the basis of a complex RAG system, that was evaluated against a golden dataset. Agents have been used to find out the contradicting intelligence, the statements supporting each other, and to store back the generated knowledge.

Used: Python, RAG, LangGraph, LangChain, deepeval, MCP

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Tobias S.

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Project Lead & Expert SAP S/4 HANA Public Cloud

Rostock
Tobias S.

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Project Manager SAP S/4 HANA Public Cloud at TIMETOACT Group

To achieve savings and optimize compliance, apps were restructured in line with the mappings in identity management, restrictions were defined and, above all, costs resulting from overuse were reduced. Communication with stakeholders, validation of authorizations with users and technical implementation in the SAP FI/CO and Sourcing & Procurement modules created significant added value for the group. This also included the corresponding documentation for the auditors.

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Karin A.

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Language Expert – Python Developer – AI Engineer

Leonberg
Karin A.

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AI Benchmark Engineer | Native language specialist German at Lilt

  • Task Engineering: Evaluating Coding Agents.
  • Asset Creation: Building realistic task environments using datasets and files in German. Crucially, these assets must remain in the target language to genuinely measure multilingual handling.
  • Prompting & Translation: finding failure points where AI does not work, in German.
  • Implementation & Verification: Supporting the development of robust solutions (reference implementations) and write highly reliable, deterministic verifier scripts (using rubric-based judging only when strictly necessary).
  • Calibration & Execution: Analyze execution logs and calibrate task difficulty (Easy to Very Hard) using standard Terminal-Bench run configurations against various model tiers (Haiku, Opus).
  • Quality Assurance: Participation in a rigorous, 4-layer human quality control process (creation, human review, calibration review, and audit) alongside automated LLM-based checks to ensure fairness, grammatical accuracy, and benchmark integrity.
  • Linguistic Review: Reviewing AI benchmark tasks across Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Czech and Turkish.
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Philipp S.

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Certified Data Scientist (XDI) | Digital Strategist

Rostock
Philipp S.

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Solution Architect, Software Engineer, UX/UI Designer, Full-Stack Developer, Data Engineer, IT Consultant at Geigenbau-Meisterwerkstatt

  • A digital system made up of special software and hardware components. The overall system replaces the traditional process with job slips and handwritten notes and enables more efficient order intake. Orders and work steps for the violin-making company’s projects can now be recorded, processed and logged in real time directly on the workshop’s touchscreen PC, by mobile phone or on the desktop. This gives customers a more transparent view of the work on their instruments and allows them to track the status and progress of their instrument through their customer account.

Tech stack: next.js, React, Flutter, Dart, Raspberry, Linux, Directus

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Niklas W.

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Senior IT Consultant

Eichenzell
Niklas W.

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AI Engineer at Tensora GmbH

  • Designed and developed a multi-tenant SaaS platform enabling organizations to build their own knowledge bases and chat with brand-customized AI assistants (white-label approach with dynamic branding per organization).
  • Implemented a scalable RAG architecture with a GPT-4o tool-use loop, hybrid semantic search, and strict tenant isolation at database and search index level.
  • Built persistent, project-like chat sessions including a streaming API (SSE), multilingual support, and speech input/output (STT/TTS).
  • Delivered the cloud infrastructure as Infrastructure-as-Code, fully automated per-customer CI/CD pipelines, and an onboarding process for new tenants.

Technologies used: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic (v2 noted), Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, OpenAI / LLMs (GPT-4o), Azure AI Search, Cosmos DB, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Cognitive Services Speech, Azure App Service, Azure Container Registry, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Server-Sent Events (SSE), Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, REST, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Multi-Tenancy

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Hervé T.

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Data Engineer & MS Fabric Expert

Oberhausen
Hervé T.

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Senior Data Engineer at Schweizerische Post AG

Tools: Fabric, AWS, dbt, Power BI, SQL, DWH, R, Python

  • Supported customers in implementing an architecture design for extracting and preparing data
  • Planned the design and implementation of the BI and DWH platform
  • Ensured the scalability and performance of the data platform
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Nikolai G.

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Freelance AI & Data Science Lead | Healthcare, Life Sciences, Finance | Team Leadership, R/Python, LLM Systems

Berlin
Nikolai G.

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Clinical Data Manager at Dr. Falk Pharma

  • Used OpenCode and AI-assisted software engineering to design, implement, refactor, test, and document an end-to-end RAW/SDTM/ADaM pipeline in R for Dr. Falk Pharma (07/2026), including metadata-driven transformations, automated validation rules and QC, traceability, and reproducible clinical outputs.
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Sanju R.

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Software Developer | Data Science

Fulda
Sanju R.

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Software Developer at Senior Connect GmbH

  • Created complex backend systems (Fastapi Python, GCP cloud functions, APIs, integration tests) using Typescript.
  • Worked with firebase and firestore databases, implementing transactional operations, scheduling jobs, and migrations.
  • Implemented GCP dashboards for thorough monitoring and custom alerts in case of anomaly traffic.
  • Implemented Sentry for better debugging, error tracking and overall monitoring of the Next.js frontend.
  • Implemented story tests for UI related testing.
  • Implemented Typesense in Python Fastapi backend, for improved text based searching along with typo handlings.
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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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Ajay C.

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Software Developer & AI Engineer | Python, RESTful APIs, CI/CD, DevOps

Braunschweig
Ajay C.

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Software Engineer & Cloud AI Developer at TANGILITY GmbH

Built Python-based AI microservices and integrations for an AEC/VR Unity-based SaaS app, focusing on LLM/VLM capabilities, retrieval-backed systems, RESTful APIs, containerized deployment, and an automation microservice for the CAD-to-Unity pipeline.

  • Developed a custom Hybrid A* based algorithm in C# to simulate hospital scenarios and detect early-stage design conflicts from collision/spatial data and generate structured reports.
  • Solved and automated the time-consuming problem of converting CAD files to usable Unity environments with a custom-engineered and real-time pipeline using a ZeroMQ-based communication layer to distribute workloads across multiple processes and achieve real-time performance.
  • Built a Dockerized FastAPI pipeline for CAD-to-Unity automation, combining vision-based object matching, image embeddings, and precomputed metadata to automatically map CAD objects to Unity behavior scripts, assign properties, and reduce repeated AI inference calls.
  • Created documentation and examples to help technical users understand, configure, and extend the AI automation pipeline.

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Statistics of experts using Data Science

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

14 years

Data Science experts in Germany have 14 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

2.2 years

Data Science experts in Germany stay in a single position for 2.2 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

9

Data Science experts in Germany have completed 9 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development

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

Top industries

Information Technology, Education, Professional Services

Data Science experts in Germany are most in demand in Information Technology, Education, and Professional Services.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Research and Development

Data Science experts in Germany earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Research and Development.

Bachelor's degree or higher

97%

97% of Data Science experts in Germany hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Master's degree or higher

80%

80% of Data Science experts in Germany hold at least a Master's degree.

Doctorate

22%

22% of Data Science experts in Germany have a doctorate (PhD).

Certifications per freelancer

3

Data Science experts in Germany hold 3 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

German, English, French

Data Science experts in Germany most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

97%

97% of Data Science experts in Germany speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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30 of the Data Science experts in Germany charge less than €400 per day.
100 of the Data Science experts in Germany charge between €400 and €800 per day.
131 of the Data Science experts in Germany charge between €800 and €1200 per day.
18 of the Data Science experts in Germany charge between €1200 and €1600 per day.
14 of the Data Science experts in Germany charge €1600 or more per day.
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The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.

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Average rates of experts in Germany using Data Science

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

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Daily rate avg. 766 €

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Median rate 800 €

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.

Data Science 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 (81%)
  • Education (48%)
  • Professional Services (43%)
  • Banking and Finance (36%)
  • Manufacturing (34%)
  • Healthcare (33%)
  • Automotive (32%)
  • Retail (27%)

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

About the technology

What Data Science covers

Data Science combines statistics, programming, domain knowledge and machine learning to extract useful insight from structured and unstructured data. It supports forecasting, classification, anomaly detection, experimentation and decision systems. The work connects raw information with measurable business action.

Typical applications

Data Science appears in products and operations across finance, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, logistics and energy. Common deliverables include:

  • Demand, sales and capacity forecasts
  • Customer segmentation and churn models
  • Fraud, risk and anomaly detection
  • Recommendation and ranking systems
  • Experiment analysis and decision dashboards

Ecosystem and tooling

Python is the dominant language, with pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn and Jupyter forming a common foundation. Specialists may also use PyTorch or TensorFlow for deep learning, SQL for data access, and Spark for distributed processing. Production work often involves Git, Docker, orchestration, cloud storage and model tracking tools.

When companies need specialists

Companies bring in freelance expertise when an internal team lacks capacity, a proof of concept must become a reliable service, or a new data product needs a clear technical direction. In Germany, projects may span distributed teams, regulated industries and collaboration with local stakeholders in German or English. The right specialist clarifies the data, target outcome and operating constraints before selecting a model.

What strong professionals deliver

Strong Data Science professionals define a useful question before modelling. They assess data quality, prevent leakage, choose suitable validation methods and explain uncertainty in terms decision-makers can use. They also document assumptions, create reproducible workflows and consider monitoring, privacy, fairness and model drift after launch.

Working with adjacent disciplines

Successful projects usually involve more than a notebook. Specialists often work alongside data engineering, analytics, software, product and subject-matter teams. Look for evidence of clean data contracts, testable pipelines, interpretable results and handover documentation. A capable freelancer can communicate trade-offs clearly and adapt methods to the available data rather than forcing a fashionable technique.

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Frequently asked questions

Questions about Data Science? Start with the answers below.

Data Science is used to find patterns in data and support decisions, predictions and automated actions. Typical applications include forecasting demand, detecting fraud, ranking search results, analysing experiments and estimating customer risk.

Data Science often focuses on prediction, experimentation and machine learning, while business intelligence mainly explains what has already happened through reports and dashboards. The boundaries overlap, so the right choice depends on the decision, data quality and need for automation.

A strong Data Science freelancer usually combines statistics with Python, SQL, data visualisation and sound software practices. Experience with data engineering, cloud services, experiment design, MLOps or a relevant industry can be important for production work.

The required Data Science experience depends on the problem, data maturity and consequences of an error. A forecasting prototype may need a different profile from a monitored production model used in finance or healthcare. Assess comparable deliverables, not only tool lists.

Data Science work is often suitable for remote collaboration because code, notebooks and cloud environments can be shared securely. On-site workshops may still help with data access, stakeholder interviews or regulated environments. Agree on language, documentation and access procedures early.

Evaluate a Data Science specialist by asking how they frame the business question, test assumptions and measure success. Request a clear explanation of validation, data leakage, uncertainty and deployment risks. A good professional can explain technical limits without hiding behind model complexity.

Data Science does not always require a complex machine learning model. A transparent statistical method or business rule may be better when the dataset is small, explanations matter or the operational gain is limited. Specialists should compare approaches against a sensible baseline.

A complete Data Science project should include prepared data, reproducible code, evaluation results and documentation of assumptions. For production use, it may also need an API or batch process, monitoring, retraining guidance and a clear handover to the teams operating it.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects is 96 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 766 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects, 97% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 80% hold at least a Master's degree, and 22% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects have 14 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects are German (97%), English (97%), and French (19%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects are Information Technology (81%), Education (48%), and Professional Services (43%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects are Information Technology (88%), Business Intelligence (76%), and Product Development (75%).

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