
DevExpress Expert in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used DevExpress
Marc H.
Last position:
Senior Architect, Coach and Developer
Fixing issues in the program logic
Covering the changes with unit tests
Analyzing and documenting the data structure of the various applications
Analyzing and documenting the parameters for configuring the applications
Analyzing and documenting the measures required to ensure the operation of the applications
Analyzing and designing the separation of the individual database structures
Analyzing and estimating the effort for planned extensions
Analyzing, maintaining and documenting a heterogeneous legacy system landscape for a print media service provider
Technology: C#, VB.NET, C, Python, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio 2010, JetBrains Rider, Visual Studio Code, arc42, Draw.io, Jira, GitLab
Andreas W.
Last position:
Self-employed Software Developer at amw-software.net
Ulrich P.
Last position:
Software Architect at Carl Zeiss SMT
- Development of a modular application framework as the future foundation and for consolidating more than 500 in-house applications.
- Role: Software Architect.
- Process: Scrum, 9-person team, clean code principles.
- Technologies: Visual Studio 2022, Git, C# 12, .NET 8.0, WPF, MVVM, xUnit, WIX-Toolset 4, Visual Studio Templating, Enterprise Architect, REST services, SignalR, SAP, Oracle DB, OAuth 2.0, OpenId.
Frank S.
Last position:
Software and Database Developer at Frigosped GmbH
- Migrating the existing Delphi 2010 version to Delphi 10.4.
- All software products must be made Terminal Server capable.
- Support and further development of the in-house forwarding software until it is replaced by a newly purchased version.
- Technologies: Delphi 2010, Delphi 10.4, Advantage Database, DevExpress, GIT, Devart, OOP.
Michael T.
Last position:
Development of an app for displaying sheet music at Freelance Software Developer
- Industry: Digital music solutions
- Technologies used: Flutter, Dart, iOS, Android, GitLab, PlantUML
Manuel K.
Last position:
.NET Developer, SAP Business One Consultant at Own Projects
- DTO class generator: In-house development of a tool for the automatic generation of classes, functions, and methods for use in .NET Core projects based on SAP Business One Service Layer metadata
- E-invoice import add-on: Development of a SAP Business One add-on / coresuite module for the automated import of ZUGFeRD e-invoices as incoming invoices – with configurable mapping to flexibly control the import logic across four mapping types (DIRECT, SQL, FIXED, EXPR). The add-on is available as a licensed product for SAP Business One customers.
Stack: SAP Business One, SAP Business One Service Layer, coresuite Country Package, C#
Tobias E.
Last position:
C# Fullstack Developer / Scrum Master / Product Owner Cloud Services / Product Owner Infrastructure & Core Services / Head of at TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen SE & Co. KG
- Many years of work in different roles within the MES product area, with technical development, agile leadership, and strategic product responsibility for key MES components.
- As C# Fullstack Developer / Scrum Master (2018–2020): further development of a programming system for laser machines, introduction and moderation of Scrum processes, quality assurance through automated tests and documentation.
- As Product Owner Cloud Services (2019–2020): leadership of two AWS-based cloud services for providing laser data and legal documents, definition of the product vision, backlog maintenance, and stakeholder communication.
- As Product Owner Infrastructure & Core Services / Head of DevOps / Product Security (2020–2025): responsibility for core MES components such as Service Orchestrator, Licensing Service, IAM, and AppLauncher, building and maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines for over 70 components, and introducing security standards (CRA).
- Company-wide contact for Azure DevOps and largely responsible for its introduction.
- Standardized versioning of all components.
- Structuring of CI/CD and release pipelines.
- Building an agent scale set with special software configuration.
- Connecting Azure DevOps with ServiceNow.
- Standardizing the integration of security tools such as SonarCloud, Dependency Track, and digital signing.
- Technologies & tools: .NET (C#, 4.8 / Core 3.x / 8), WPF, WCF, REST, OData, JSON, DevExpress, Duende IDP, Azure DevOps, AWS, PowerBI, SonarCloud, Dependency Track, Visual Studio Pro.
- Method: Scrum.
- Project language: German / English.
Nils S.
Last position:
Backend System and Web Client for Replacing Electricity Meters for Energy Suppliers at Freelance
Design and implementation of a system for controlling the complete process of installing, removing, and replacing electricity meters by external service providers for an energy supplier
Automated retrieval of orders and available devices through defined interfaces (e.g. from SAP)
Orchestration of the process steps (assignment of meters, processing of meter data, transfer of updated information back to the source system) through a Spring-Boot backend
Provision of a React-based web client for operational tracking and control of orders, e.g. to continue failed process steps or resend notifications
Gavrilo O.
Last position:
Head of Software Development at Davidsmeyer & Paul GmbH
- Strategic project development, realisation, and implementation with internal and/or external development team
- Multi stakeholder management
- Planning new projects, cost calculation, risk calculation
- AI project for the electrical components production
- Building management systems integrations (BACnet, Modbus, etc)
- Inhouse BACring system architecture and development (control system for fire protection and smoke extraction systems)
- Inhouse MES system architecture and development
- Project management
- Agile-SCRUM project development
- Solution architecture and processes analytics (UML)
- Business application development
- Jira project management
- Reporting and documentation
- Recruitment process for the IT staff
- Software architecture, project development, costs, risks
- Education IT staff (internal and external)
- Responsibility for 5 development/DevOps/QA teams
Hicham M.
Last position:
Freelance Software Developer at Buhl Data Service GmbH
- Backend development: .Net 8, C#, PostgreSQL, Entity Framework Core, REST Web APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Open API Swagger, Apache Airflow, Resharper, Git, Microservices, SOAP, gRPC, Hangfire, OAuth 2, GraphQL
- Interface development for document processing with SmartFix, Softexpansion and Natif.ai: C#, REST API, Resharper, Git
- Deployment: Azure DevOps YAML, Vanilla Helmchart, Rancher, Kubernetes Cluster, Linux Docker, Windows VM, Python
- Unit tests and integration tests
- Telemetry, Kibana, Grafana, Elastic Search
- Work in a Kanban team of 8 developers, 1 tester and one Product Owner
Alois F.
Last position:
Software Architect / Backend Developer at GEO API
- Design and implementation of a Laravel backend API for provider-based geo search, feature details, boundary geometries and neighborhood detection.
- The API serves as a server-side proxy, cache and enrichment layer, protecting credentials for external geo services and persisting features, localizations, geometries, hierarchies and neighborhood relationships in MariaDB.
- Key areas included normalization of autocomplete and feature data, caching strategies for expensive boundary/polygon requests, spatial processing of GeoJSON and MultiPolygon geometries, as well as neighborhood detection using hierarchies, bounding box filters and topology checks.
- Additionally, separate production and diagnostic endpoints were created, along with status and error catalogs, discovery logging, a Docker development stack, API documentation, and unit and feature tests.
- Technologies: PHP 8.3, Laravel, REST API, geo data API, GeoJSON, MariaDB Spatial, Eloquent, Laravel Queues, PHPUnit, Mockery, Docker, Docker Compose, API design, geocoding, boundary data, spatial queries.
Thorsten G.
Last position:
Freelance Software Developer at Insurance company, Munich, Germany
- Implemented modernization measures to optimize processes in the insurance domain
- Replaced old interfaces with newer APIs
- Merged several smaller solutions into one main solution to improve builds and increase efficiency in the development process
- Replaced the persistence solution in the backend from Telerik to NHibernate
- Created unit tests to secure the code
Alberto G.
Last position:
C#/.Net Developer at Pean-IT GmbH
- Developed high-performance REST API interfaces in C# for Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) using CI/CD (Git, Azure DevOps).
- Developed the "Pean Admin Center" using the Microsoft Graph API (backend: C#, frontend: Vuetify), implemented via CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps).
- Created low-code business applications and automated processes with Power Apps and Power Automate.
- Set up and designed the online shop for Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus (PFH) via Wix.
Dietmar B.
Last position:
Freelance Developer at Hirschmann/Belden
- Extension of test software for functional testing of IO modules in WPF with MVVM
- Configuration and extension of a specialized WPF control from Nevron
- Connection to Siemens PLCs via Siemens OPC UA Client and Allen-Bradley/Rockwell PLCs via Codebix OPC UA Client
- Integration of various data sources via REST API and JSON
- Development of stored procedures, views, and triggers for PostgreSQL and SQL Server with ADO.NET and Entity Framework 6
Dilip K.
Last position:
.NET Technical Lead & Application Architect at Hays AG
- Devised a new Domain-Driven Design architecture for a core system: reverse-engineered a central component, refactored the data-access layer to minimise database round-trips (improving scalability) and migrated processing to async.
- Decomposed the platform into independent .NET Core microservices (database-per-service) with RabbitMQ pub/sub using the Outbox Pattern + Saga choreography, behind an Ocelot API Gateway (JWT, rate limiting, CORS, health checks).
- Delivered on .NET Core / Angular / SQL Server / EF Core with Docker and Azure DevOps CI/CD; implemented health checks and CORS; contributes technical designs for stories in agile Scrum.
- Sole ADR owner; mentored 3 engineers and presented architecture decisions directly to the Director of Corporate IT.
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Statistics of experts using DevExpress
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years

Position duration
3.3 years

Positions per freelancer
15

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
80%
Master's degree or higher
53%
Doctorate
7%

Certifications per freelancer
1

Most common languages
German, English, French

Speak two or more languages
92%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Germany using DevExpress
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 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
DevExpress 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 (96%)
- Manufacturing (63%)
- Banking and Finance (54%)
- Transportation (50%)
- Automotive (46%)
- Education (42%)
- Healthcare (38%)
- Energy (33%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What DevExpress Does
DevExpress is a commercial UI component suite for .NET applications. Its controls help teams create data-heavy interfaces, reporting solutions, dashboards and business tools without building every grid, editor or chart from scratch. The suite supports desktop, web and cross-platform application scenarios.
Core Application Areas
DevExpress is used where users need clear access to complex business data and workflows:
- WinForms and WPF desktop applications for internal operations
- ASP.NET Core and Blazor web interfaces for enterprise systems
- Interactive dashboards, reports and document workflows
- Scheduling, navigation, data entry and approval screens
Its controls are common in finance, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and other sectors that depend on structured information and long-lived .NET systems.
Ecosystem And Tooling
Strong DevExpress specialists work across the suite’s desktop and web controls, reporting tools, dashboard components and rich editors. They usually combine C#, .NET, Visual Studio, Entity Framework Core, REST APIs and SQL databases. Knowledge of ASP.NET Core, Blazor, WPF or WinForms helps them select the right control model instead of forcing one interface pattern into every project.
When Freelance Expertise Helps
Companies often bring in freelance expertise when a legacy application needs a controlled redesign, a reporting layer is overdue or an internal team must deliver a complex interface quickly. In Germany, this can support manufacturers, logistics providers and regulated businesses while internal stakeholders remain focused on domain work. Remote delivery works well when requirements, repositories and review routines are clearly organized; on-site workshops can help with discovery and user acceptance.
Delivery And Quality Signals
A capable professional treats DevExpress as part of an application architecture, not as a collection of visual widgets. They establish reusable styling, keep business logic outside UI code and test grids, filters, exports, reports and permissions with realistic data. They also understand licensing, upgrade planning, accessibility, browser behavior and performance when screens handle large datasets.
Choosing The Right Specialist
Look for evidence of complete deliverables rather than familiarity with a product name alone. Useful signals include a maintainable control configuration, responsive layouts, secure API integration and clear documentation for future upgrades. Ask how the specialist would handle custom editors, localization, reporting changes and migration between WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET Core or Blazor. The best fit can explain trade-offs in plain language and align the interface with the users’ daily work.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around DevExpress.
DevExpress is used to build business applications with ready-made .NET interface components. Common deliverables include data grids, dashboards, reports, charts, scheduling screens, document tools and complex data-entry workflows for desktop and web systems.
DevExpress competes with Telerik and Infragistics as a broad commercial component suite for .NET. The right choice depends on the existing stack, control coverage, visual requirements, licensing terms, reporting needs and the team’s familiarity with each vendor’s APIs.
A strong DevExpress specialist typically works with C#, .NET, Visual Studio and SQL databases. Depending on the project, useful adjacent skills include ASP.NET Core, Blazor, WPF, WinForms, Entity Framework Core, REST APIs, JavaScript, accessibility and automated testing.
The required experience depends on the scope and the application’s age. A focused screen or report may need a specialist who can work within an existing codebase, while a platform migration or large dashboard suite calls for deeper knowledge of architecture, performance, security and upgrade planning.
DevExpress projects are often suitable for remote collaboration when the repository, requirements, data access and review process are ready. German language skills can help when the specialist works directly with local business users, but technical delivery can also succeed in English with clear documentation and structured workshops.
DevExpress provides web components for ASP.NET Core and Blazor, along with dashboards, reporting and data visualization features. A specialist should assess browser support, responsive behavior, accessibility and API design before choosing controls for a new web application.
Ask for examples of complete applications rather than isolated screenshots. A qualified DevExpress professional should explain control selection, data binding, validation, permissions, testing, performance and how the solution can be maintained through framework or suite upgrades.
DevExpress can accelerate delivery, but complex screens may become difficult to maintain if UI configuration, business rules and data access are mixed together. Other challenges include licensing decisions, upgrade compatibility, large dataset performance, custom styling and keeping reports consistent with the underlying domain model.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used DevExpress in their recent projects is 93 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 742 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used DevExpress in their recent projects, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 53% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used DevExpress in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used DevExpress in their recent projects are German (100%), English (92%), and French (13%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used DevExpress in their recent projects are Information Technology (96%), Manufacturing (63%), and Banking and Finance (54%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used DevExpress in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Quality Assurance (58%).
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