Data Science Experts in Munich
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Michael Nelz
Last position:
Senior ML Engineer, AI Engineer at Lanxess AG
- Deployment and scaling of existing ML initiatives, including demand and cash flow forecasts.
- Building robust monitoring with mlflow for data stability, model performance, and drift detection, as well as implementing additional ML use cases.
- Further development of an Agentic AI chatbot for transparent and easy-to-understand model explanations.
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
Christiane Neher
Last position:
Management Consultant at Christiane Neher Management Consulting
Large Insurance Company – Consultant Wiesbaden: Consulting support for the introduction of an integrated planning and performance management framework (operational, financial, customer) to enhance customer-centric transparency, decision-making quality, and steering capabilities across all lines of business within an insurance organization:
- Analysis of existing processes, reports, KPIs, and KPI calculation methodologies
- Design and introduction of new, standardized customer KPIs (gross/net), as well as key steering metrics with consistent linkage across all lines of business
- Recalculation, validation, and plausibility checks of KPIs based on existing and newly integrated data sources
- Conceptual support for the development of an integrated reporting and performance management setup
- Execution of customer insights analyses to identify patterns and anomalies within customer data clusters
Large retail company – Consultant in Karlsruhe: Advisory services for the setup and step-by-step implementation of an internationally deployable RELEX solution in the supply chain management environment:
- Advising overall and sub-project management on methodology, project setup and steering (e.g. agile approach, Jira configuration, RELEX phases, Jira Structure PPM)
- Strategic-operational consulting for the introduction of RELEX including best practices
- Support in defining overarching goals and requirements (2-year target picture)
- Guidance in scoping a relevant supply chain network segment for the project
- Development of a roadmap for iterative, incremental RELEX setup and rollout
- Assessment of project dependencies (interfaces, configurations, etc.)
- Advice on prioritized implementation of business requirements and data interfaces
- Support in test planning (data validation, system testing, UAT)
- Consulting on internationalization, change management, training, and knowledge transfer
- Stakeholder advisory and alignment activities between the client, implementation partner, and RELEX
Insurance company – Management Consultant in Munich: Analysis, consulting and support for the optimization of a large-scale business and IT transformation. Focus on strategically important programs and modernization projects in the area of Managed Services Operations and processes:
- Review of project plans and deliverables; analysis of programs and projects (e.g. cloud approach, process standardization, system integration, roadmaps)
- Identification of technical, functional and personnel risks and challenges; development of content-related measures and alternative solutions
- Proposal of quality improvements for program and modernization efforts
- Sparring partner and professional, technical, structural and organizational consulting for project and program management
Large retail group – Management Consultant & Stream Lead in Cologne: Consulting, process, project and product management for the introduction and implementation of a large strategic program in the field of advanced analytics, assortment and space management:
- Setup, test and rollout of a new space planning, automation and optimization product based on the existing cluster-based merchandising approach
- Definition and setup of new processes and transformation and change management measures for the new store-specific merchandising approach
- Collaboration with Advanced Analytics and IT (internal and external) for software implementations, automations, extensions and interfaces
- MVP approach and piloting in phases with gradual rollout (pilot with 80 stores, region with 500 stores, national level with 4000 stores)
Large retail company – Agile Coach & Change Agent in Cologne: Agile coach, OKR master and facilitator for the introduction of the OKR approach in a large strategic digitization program for retail stores:
- Coaching of the core team with topic managers and team leads
- Introduction to the OKR topic and setup of the OKR cycle
- Establishment of the OKR approach in teams and on a cross-team level
Delivery and logistics company – Management Consultant in United Kingdom: Consulting and coaching in the restructuring of the Data Analytics department:
- Analysis of current challenges
- Definition of overarching goals
- Development of a proposal for a new team structure
- Identification of required competencies, skills and responsibilities
- Advisory and alignment on communication and change management strategy
Suyash Shaha
Last position:
Data Analyst - Reporting & Analytics at SIXT SE
- Developed & maintained customer analytical reporting solutions to identify revenue trends, performance drivers, risks & optimization opportunities to ensure data driven decision making across Sales, Finance, Product, Data Engineering & Controlling.
- Defined & analyzed customer trends & performance metrics to identify root causes behind variances, anomalies & emerging risks across business domains to deliver actionable recommendations.
- Developed & owned analytical data models & reporting layers to ensure scalability, performance & analytical robustness to support executive & operational reporting across business domains.
- Planned, tracked & executed projects by ensuring adherence to timelines, data accuracy, consistency, deliverables, reliability & data quality standards through rigorous validation & reconciliation processes.
- Raised the analytical maturity by formalizing analytical workflows, documenting data processes & standard operating procedures (SOPs) & conducting training sessions to drive adoption of self-service analytics & embed a data driven culture across operational and business teams.
- Took ownership of the end-to-end lifecycle roadmap from requirement gathering, collection, transformation, developing robust business logics to data storytelling & stakeholder delivery.
- Converted complexity into structured clarity by translating requirements & business processes into analytical recommendations to ensure alignment between non-technical & technical stakeholders.
- Conducted advanced SQL based analysis of complex business datasets to uncover trends, correlations & performance improvement opportunities.
- Drove process automation & efficiency improvements by leveraging Python, SQL optimization & AI assisted tools to reduce processing time & increase reliability across analytical & operational workflows.
- Standardized KPI definitions & reporting logic to ensure consistency & trust across reporting solutions.
- Developed process monitoring dashboards & analyses to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks & compliance deviations across end-to-end business processes to derive actionable recommendations for process improvement & automation.
Omar Ashour
Last position:
Senior Fullstack AI Engineer (Team Lead – B2C Platform) at mama health
- Partner directly with C-level leadership (CEO, CAIO, CTO) on architecture, OKR strategy, and cross-team roadmap prioritization, translating strategic goals into structured engineering requirements.
- Surfaced and mapped technical debt across the entire organization with C-level leadership and co-defined a prioritized remediation strategy, balancing debt paydown against feature delivery.
- Led code reviews and technical standards across the team, fostering a mentor-first environment with two-way feedback dialogue — pairing on complex pipeline work and unblocking junior engineers on async architecture patterns.
- Re-architected the AI companion's core processing pipeline from synchronous to asynchronous with a queue-based worker architecture, enabling horizontal scalability and cutting upload processing time ~4x (from ~22s to 5–10s) while improving response accuracy.
- Designed an AI-driven document intelligence workflow with automatic multi-document classification, per-document summarization, and relevance guardrails for the patient care journey.
- Built a unified patient memory system (short- and long-term context) bridging the document vault and chatbot into a single bidirectional, context-aware platform.
Valery Khamenya
Last position:
Sr. Data Scientist & Engineer at Virtual Minds
- Development of high-performance ad distribution via auction
- Holistic (multi-campaign & multi-channel) advertisement placement optimization
- Algorithmic optimization for NP-Hard/NP-e
- Multiple Knapsack Problem with constraints
- Online estimation of parameters in stochastic environments
Tools: Python, R, Kotlin, MILP/SAT/CP Solvers, Pytorch, Pandas, Docker
Christian Schulz
Last position:
Data-Scientist/AI Engineer at The Marcom Engine GmbH & Co. KG
- Concept creation and implementing AI Agents in AWS Cloud
- Continuously alignment with stakeholders
- Collaborate with DevOps
- Technologies: Git, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Python/ML, Streamlit, Deno/typescript, AWS SAM, AWS Bedrock, AWS Lambda, AWS Dynamo DB, AWS S3, AWS Event Bridge etc.
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.
Uwe Cohrs
Last position:
Principal Business Development Manager at Keepler Data Tech GmbH
- Develop business solutions in data analytics and AI, including anomaly detection, demand forecasting, and Vision AI based on AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Make customers more competitive, agile, and resilient by integrating data into corporate processes
- Responsible for acquisition and financial success of client projects in the DACH region
- Manage projects and maintain close communication between all partners involved
Eva Zepke
Last position:
Manager Business Service Management & Digitalization at Dacoso GmbH
- Developed and operationalized a digitalization strategy to ensure a seamless value chain across all business areas in coordination with executive management
- Implemented a process management standard and led the process organization
- Program management: directed the design, implementation and coordination of the rollout across all value-adding business units
- Reported on the program to stakeholders and executive management
- Supplier management: selected, contracted and managed suppliers within the digitalization program
- Redesigned the process organization, defined new process standards and developed training programs
Srijan Manish
Last position:
Senior Product Manager – Revenue Management at SIXT SE
- Built and scaled a data-science price engine across 8 EU markets, lifting fleet margin by ~2% on a €1.5B+ base
- Launched a generative-AI insights platform in 29 countries, cutting manual analysis by ~40% and driving weekly actions
- Led a hybrid team and aligned 100+ stakeholders to refine pricing logic and accelerate rollout across regions
- Set up KPI governance with WBR/MBR rhythms, reducing decision latency by ~30% across European pricing teams
Sebastian Dirndorfer
Last position:
Data Scientist at CLADE GmbH
- Designed and implemented a robust Python-based data processing framework that supported the transition from R to Python and significantly improved data science productivity by providing maintainable, standardized modules for frequently used workflows, following coding best practices and DevOps principles
- Evaluated, trained, and deployed machine learning models on cloud platforms and edge devices, enabling fully automated mid-infrared (MIR) data evaluation pipelines that eliminated manual analysis steps and significantly shortened the time from measurement to prediction for customers and internal stakeholders
- Analyzed and interpreted multivariate MIR spectral data from the company’s proprietary analyzer using R and Python, supporting reliable identification and quantitation of chemical compounds in solution
Stephan Sahm
Last position:
Senior Data/ML Consultant & Technical Lead at Jolin.io
Role: Software Engineer & Applied Mathematician (Mathematical optimization for scheduling; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: JuMP, Julia, Pluto, Svelte, JavaScript, TypeScript, JetBrains Space, Terraform, Nomad)
Role: Software & Cloud & Web Engineer (Building scalable data science compute cluster from scratch; duration: 11 months; team setting: Team of 1, on-site; technologies: Terraform, Kubernetes, k8s ingress, k8s services, k8s RBAC, k8s networking, k3s, etcd, S3, DNS, certificates, Julia, Pluto, JavaScript, Tailwind, Astro, npm, Parcel, Preact, MUI, JWT, AWS SQS, AWS RDS, Python, GitLab, GitHub)
Role: AI & Web Engineer (Custom ChatGPT service; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: Python, Poetry, LangChain, Tailwind, ChatGPT API, Flask, FastAPI)
Role: Architect & Data Engineer (Central datalake setup and ingestion; duration: 9 months; team setting: Team of 5, remote; technologies: Infrastructure-as-code, AWS CDK, Python, Boto3, PySpark, AWS Glue, IAM, S3, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, Apache Hudi, DeltaLake, Databricks, GitHub, Jira, Miro)
Role: Software Engineer (PoC Julia migration of scikit-decide; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: Python, Julia, GitHub)
Stephan Baier
Last position:
Freelance Data Scientist at Baier Data & AI Consulting
David Thompson-Ajayi
Last position:
AI Trainer (NLP & LLM Evaluation) at Freelance
- Designed and evaluated high-quality prompts and completions for Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on improving response accuracy, instruction-following behavior, and factual consistency.
- Annotated and rated LLM-generated outputs for grammar, coherence, relevance, and truthfulness.
- Developed RLHF-style preference data by ranking model completions to inform reinforcement learning fine-tuning cycles.
- Participated in prompt engineering experiments to assess the effect of instruction format, verbosity, and phrasing on model behavior.
- Conducted error analysis and quality assurance on large-scale NLP datasets, identifying edge cases and linguistic ambiguity affecting LLM performance.
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Statistics of experts using Data Science
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Experience
16 years (Germany: 15 years)
Position duration
2.3 years (Germany: 2.2 years)
Positions per freelancer
10 (Germany: 9)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 96%)
Master's degree or higher
83% (Germany: 78%)
Doctorate
25% (Germany: 22%)
Certifications per freelancer
2 (Germany: 3)
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 96%)
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
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Average rates of experts in Munich using Data Science
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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 it covers
Data science turns raw data into decisions. It blends statistics, machine learning, data cleaning, and business analysis to answer real questions, spot patterns, and support better products and operations. In many teams, it sits between analytics, engineering, and applied AI.
Common work
- Build models for forecasting, segmentation, and anomaly detection
- Explore data and define useful metrics
- Prepare data for analysis and feature work
- Validate results and explain them to stakeholders
Tools and stack
Strong professionals usually work with Python, SQL, pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, Jupyter, and notebooks. They may also use Spark, dbt, cloud data warehouses, and BI tools when the project needs larger pipelines or reporting layers. Good work depends on clear data access and reproducible analysis.
When companies hire
Teams bring in freelance support when a model must be delivered quickly, a dataset is messy, or an internal team needs extra depth on an important project. Data science experts are also useful for proof-of-concept work, model review, and bridging the gap between analytics and production delivery. In Munich, they often support mobility, industrial, software, and finance teams.
What strong experts do
Good data science specialists ask sharp questions before they code. They define the target, check data quality, choose methods that fit the problem, and present results in plain language. They also know when a simple model is better than a complex one.
What to look for
A strong profile shows more than notebooks and algorithms. Look for clear problem framing, solid SQL, practical Python, careful validation, and the ability to explain trade-offs. For projects in Munich, it also helps when the expert can work comfortably with English teams and, when needed, with German-speaking stakeholders.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about Data Science — answered in short.
A strong Data Science expert delivers analysis, models, and clear guidance for decisions. That can include forecasting, segmentation, recommendation logic, anomaly detection, or dashboards that help teams act on the results. The best work is tied to a business question, not just a notebook.
Data Science is broader than data analytics because it can include modeling, experimentation, and deeper statistical work. It overlaps with machine learning, but machine learning is usually the modeling part rather than the full workflow. Many projects need all three pieces together: analysis, modeling, and communication.
A capable Data Science professional usually brings Python, SQL, statistics, and data cleaning skills. Depending on the project, they may also use scikit-learn, pandas, Jupyter, Spark, or cloud data tools. Communication matters just as much, because the results must be understood by non-technical teams.
You do not need a fully defined solution, but you should know the business problem and the data you have. A good Data Science expert can help shape the scope, choose the right approach, and spot data gaps early. The clearer the goal, the faster the work can move.
Freelance Data Science support works well for time-sensitive projects, specialist tasks, or extra capacity on an existing team. It is also useful for audits, model reviews, and short proof-of-concept phases. Companies often choose this route when they need focused expertise without a long hiring cycle.
Most Data Science work can be done remotely as long as the expert has access to the right data, tools, and stakeholders. On-site time in Munich can help during workshops, discovery sessions, or when the data is sensitive and access is controlled. Many teams use a mix of both.
Look for clear problem framing, strong validation habits, and results that connect to a real decision. A good Data Science specialist explains assumptions, limitations, and why a method was chosen. You should also see evidence of clean code, reproducible work, and practical communication.
No, Data Science is not the same as AI, but they often work together. Data science prepares and shapes data, tests hypotheses, and supports model work, while AI usually refers to systems that automate tasks or generate outputs. In practice, many AI projects start with solid data science.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects is 100 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 801 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 83% hold at least a Master's degree, and 25% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects are English (100%), German (95%), and Spanish (32%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects are Information Technology (84%), Banking and Finance (49%), and Professional Services (49%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Data Science in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Business Intelligence (84%), and Product Development (78%).
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