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Khalid El Mansouri

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Lead Architect & Developer

Alsbach-Hähnlein
Khalid El Mansouri

Last position:

Lead Architect & Developer at kem-consulting

  • Development of an agent-based governance platform for the automated assurance of EU AI Act compliance and ODA-compliant orchestration of AI services in complex enterprise environments.

  • Design and implementation of an agent-based "Mission Control" framework (Aletheia Conductor) for autonomous state monitoring and process control.

  • Development of "Compliance-as-Code" (CaC) solutions based on OPA/Rego for system-wide enforcement of regulatory guardrails.

  • Integration of TM Forum ODA standards (TMF630, TMF622, TMF642) to ensure interoperability and standardization.

  • Building a highly available event-driven architecture using Redpanda and CloudEvents v1.0 for near-real-time event processing.

  • Implementation of an audit-proof "Evidence Chain" through cryptographic linking of trace logs in preparation for automated audits.

  • Tech Stack: Java 21 (Quarkus Native), TypeScript (Next.js), Redpanda (Kafka API), CloudEvents v1.0, OPA (Open Policy Agent) & Rego, TimescaleDB, ZincSearch, Redis, TM Forum ODA, Git, GitHub, Clean Code Development, Like-C4.

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Stefan Ojanen

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AI Product Leader

Berlin
Stefan Ojanen

Last position:

Founder at ProtocolEngine.io

Evidence-led health intelligence platform turning published research into personal health protocols. It scores 430 habits, foods, and supplements against the studies behind them, and moves the score when the evidence moves. Built solo.

  • Built the daily ingestion pipeline across PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv: 43,000+ papers from 3,400+ journals processed into 230,000+ typed evidence claims, each one traceable back to the study it came from.
  • Designed the six-factor evidence scoring model and the public changelog behind it, so no recommendation ever appears without the papers underneath it. 23,000+ grade changes recorded and explained to date.
  • Shipped an entity information model connecting every intervention to its mechanisms, biomarkers, and outcomes: 118 biomarkers with region-specific reference ranges, 77 mechanisms, 32 graded outcomes.
  • Built the personalisation layer: blood panel ingestion that reads lab PDFs with a vision model and corrects results for draw time against the user's wake anchor, plus Oura, WHOOP, and Withings integration for daily readiness context.
  • Operate eleven specialised review agents over the corpus and codebase, covering paper curation, retrieval quality, health-claim compliance across EU and US regimes, and security.
  • Shipped the Evidence Assistant, a RAG assistant that answers from the claim database and cites the underlying papers, plus a B2B practitioner tier, an Expo React Native app, and localisation across 3 languages and 7 markets.

Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Supabase, pgvector, Anthropic Claude, Vercel, DeepInfra.

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Kiriakos Krastillis

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Platform Engineering Tech Lead / Architect

Nickenich
Kiriakos Krastillis

Last position:

Tech Lead / Architect : OTTO API Platform at OTTO

Maturing their API practices on both a business and technology level. My role covers strategy, architecture, developer advocacy as well as hands-on software engineering, enabling both technical teams and business leadership to adopt and act on API-centric principles effectively. Coincidentally, we also establish GitOps, DX and platform best practices with this project.

Highlights:

  • Aligning executives with the initiative by clarifying strategy, replacing misconceptions and myths with facts, clarifying the value of existing assets and enabling informed decision-making
  • Formulating a way forward for API Lifecycle Management at OTTO
  • Driving platform progress and fostering developer engagement by hands-on engineering work towards strategic goals

API Lifecycle Management, Team Topologies, Organizational Evolution, Regulatory, Platform Advocate, Developer Platform, Communities of Practice, Terraform, Kotlin, Kafka, Kong, WSO2, Apigee, Gravitee, Backstage, AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, API Design, AWS, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Redocly, reactive programming, CDC, Golang, Gin, GitOps, DX (developer experience), stakeholder management, roadmaps, workshops, discovery.

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Shamaila Mahmood

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Senior Software and Platform Architect

Heilbronn
Shamaila Mahmood

Last position:

Founder/Kubernetes and Cloud Architect at Kubekanvas

  • Developed a browser-based platform for Kubernetes no-code deployment and cluster management
  • Developed a CLI in TypeScript to deploy resources in the cluster without leaving the browser UI.
  • Implemented DevSecOps pipelines: image scanning, SBOM, policy enforcement, supply-chain security, and used Kyverno. Implemented IAM integration for the command-line utility tool.
  • Designed role and permission models for Keycloak, OAuth/OIDC, and social login flows.
  • Used LLMs to convert user intent into diagrams.
  • Worked on integration with multiple sovereign clouds like StackIT, Hetzner, CIVO, UpCloud, plus public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure
  • The technology stack includes Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, OpenAI, Kubernetes multi-tenancy using vCluster, Karpenter, RBAC for CLI, Helm, React
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Peter Schillen

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Senior AI, Machine Learning & Computer Vision Expert

Mannheim
Peter Schillen

Last position:

Senior ML Engineer & AI Researcher at Anonymous client

Project: Defect generation on inspection images of metal surfaces

  • Environment:* Automated Visual Inspection (AVI), Metallurgy & Manufacturing

  • Goal & implementation: Concept, architecture, and training of 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 inspection-light conditions for privacy-compliant and efficient dataset expansion (Data Augmentation).

  • Technical design: Implementation of robust Generative AI and Computer Vision pipelines in Python and PyTorch. Use of semantic segmentation approaches for mask-guided defect synthesis and downstream evaluation with EfficientDet object detection models.

  • Business impact: Massive dataset upscaling (factor of 10x) without time- and cost-intensive physical inspection runs, while at the same time drastically 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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Tobias Mönch

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Product Owner, Scrum Master, Project Manager

Oebisfelde-Weferlingen
Tobias Mönch

Last position:

Power BI Expert at MID-SIZED RETAIL COMPANY FOR CLEANING TECHNOLOGY AND HYGIENE PRODUCTS

Reporting and controlling with Power BI for a productive ERP system

  • Analysis of ERP data and interfaces for use in Power BI dashboards
  • Evaluation and migration of existing reports (e.g. Excel) to Power BI
  • Development of an access rights concept for selective data access
  • Documentation and training on how to use and adapt the Power BI dashboards

Label: Power BI, Excel, SelectLine ERP, Microsoft SQL, SQL Server Management Studio

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Collin Kempkes

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Lead Fullstack Developer

Kempen
Collin Kempkes

Last position:

Software Architect / Fullstack Developer at Equity Bytes

Built an international e-commerce platform for a multi-vendor marketplace for digital assets from scratch. Designed and operated cloud native architectures at enterprise scale.

  • Designed and operated a highly scalable microservice and serverless architecture
  • Built the complete cloud infrastructure with Terraform + AWS CDK in AWS
  • Provisioned ECS/EKS clusters (Fargate), Application Load Balancers (reverse proxy), and Lambda functions
  • Observability & tracing with CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana
  • End-to-end setup with DataDog (formerly AWS CloudWatch), Prometheus, and custom Grafana dashboards
  • Integration of advanced metrics (including ORM mapper) and distributed tracing with Jaeger
  • Robust backup and disaster recovery strategies
  • RDS Postgres backups and hourly snapshots
  • Read-only, asynchronously synchronized replicas with automated master failover in emergencies
  • Minute-level rollback capability through versioned Docker images on ECS and Git-based CI/CD pipelines
  • Created CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for automated multi-stage deployments (Dev, Testing, Prod)
  • Integrated Stripe for international payment processing
  • Built a marketplace payment system with multiple parties and payout routines
  • Used Algolia for high-performance real-time search of digital assets on the platform
  • Federation of services with GraphQL and Hasura
  • Later migration to GraphQL Mesh
  • Test Driven Development (TDD) - unit, integration, and E2E testing with Jest, Vitest, and Playwright
  • Used Next.js / React for modern frontend applications in the nx monorepo
  • Enterprise security architecture & access control
  • Integration of JWT tokens with Auth0, OAuth, OIDC, IP guards, BOLA protection, and secret vaults
  • Authorization concepts with RBAC, ABAC, and native Postgres Row-Level Security (RLS)
  • Built internal microfrontends with Retool for fast prototyping and operational business processes

Technologies: ABAC, AWS CDK, AWS CloudWatch, AWS ECS, AWS EKS, AWS Fargate, AWS RDS, AWS S3, Algolia, Auth0, DataDog, Docker, GitHub Actions, Grafana, GraphQL, GraphQL Mesh, Hasura, JWT, Jaeger, Java, JavaScript, Jest, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Monorepo, Next.js, OIDC, Playwright, Postgres, Postgres RLS, Prometheus, RBAC, Redis, Retool, Serverless, Stripe, Terraform, TypeScript, Vitest

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Harold Tela

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Senior Software Developer | OOP . Full Stack . Web & Mobile . Cloud-Native

Braunschweig
Harold Tela

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CPU Watcher — Cloud-Native Monitoring Application at SEUYTEL

  • Planned and developed a CPU monitoring application for monitoring system performance and resource utilization.
  • Designed and implemented a Spring Boot backend providing a REST API for processing and exposing monitoring data.
  • Developed the React frontend for presenting monitoring information in a clear and user-friendly interface.
  • Integrated PostgreSQL for persistent storage and management of application data.
  • Containerized the application and its services using Docker Compose.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment using Terraform on AWS.
  • Structured the application as a modern, maintainable system using REST-based communication between frontend and backend.
  • Designed and developed a secure, scalable CPU monitoring architecture (cpu-watcher) with a dedicated collector application that streams monitoring data to the backend, reducing direct exposure of system resources.
  • Designed a secure cloud infrastructure with the database isolated within a private network and OIDC-based authentication.
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and integrated version-controlled CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, infrastructure changes, and application deployments.
  • Designed and implemented the frontend delivery architecture using AWS CloudFront.

Stack: Spring Boot · React · PostgreSQL · REST API · Docker Compose · Terraform · AWS

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Jens Henneberg

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Interim CTO / CDO & Enterprise Architect | AI Compliance & EU AI Act, Azure AI Foundry | Lawyer & Computer Scientist

Wathlingen
Jens Henneberg

Last position:

Interim CTO (occasional assignments) at Fujitsu / FSAS

Stabilizing an Azure/.NET landscape in live operation.

  • Architecture, DevOps, and operational readiness; technical decisions under time pressure
  • Azure DevOps, monitoring, ETL/ELT, cloud security, FinOps, and data-mesh-related topics

Technologies: Azure DevOps, .NET, CI/CD, monitoring, FinOps

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Ales Loncar

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Senior DevOps Consultant (Freelance)

Munich
Ales Loncar

Last position:

Senior DevOps Consultant (Freelance) at European Union Agency (via IBM)

  • Worked as freelance Senior DevOps Consultant on-site for IBM at a European Union Agency, operating in a highly secure, air-gapped environment managing classified systems.
  • Led automation and DevOps initiatives for a large-scale OpenShift platform (>400 nodes), driving deployment efficiency, GitOps adoption, and operational automation using Ansible, Python, and Bash while ensuring compliance with security requirements.
  • Spearheaded automation of release and deployment workflows in a private cloud environment hosting 400+ OpenShift nodes, significantly improving deployment speed and reliability.
  • Migrated existing playbooks, roles, and templates from Ansible Tower to Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), ensuring full compliance with fully-qualified collection names (FQCN) and preparing custom Execution Environments (EE) for containerized automation.
  • Implemented GitOps Agent for AAP Controller Configuration as Code, enabling automated synchronization (CRUD) of Ansible Controller objects based on repository-stored configuration definitions using GitHub webhooks.
  • Designed and automated complex multi-step operational workflows including environment cleanup, Helix cluster component re-creation, Kafka topic management, and OpenShift object lifecycle management across ~100 environments.
  • Achieved a reduction of multi-day manual operations to under a few hours through automation improvements spanning multiple AAP clusters and OpenShift environments.
  • Integrated Ansible Automation Platform with Thycotic (Delinea) Secret Server via lookup plugin to enhance secure credential management in automated processes.
  • Managed deployment tasks, platform troubleshooting, and Istio network configurations while adhering to stringent EU PSC security and compliance standards.
  • Collaborated with infrastructure and application teams to refine deployment procedures, develop naming conventions, and continuously improve automation coverage in an air-gapped, classified environment.
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Dmitry Pankov

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Freelance Digital Marketing Analyst

Berlin
Dmitry Pankov

Last position:

Freelance Digital Marketing Analyst at Freelance

  • Marketing Strategy: Lead the end-to-end analysis and evaluation of cross-channel marketing campaigns across the entire Customer Journey. My focus is identifying optimization potential and deriving clear, actionable recommendations that drive measurable business impact.
  • Data Science & AI: Advanced predictive modeling (Churn, LTV), market basket analysis, clustering, and real-time AI-powered audience discovery utilizing RAG/LLMs.
  • Marketing Analytics & Measurement: End-to-end attribution analysis, Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), audience segmentation, conversion path analysis, and A/B testing across all major platforms.
  • Data Engineering & Reporting: Designing and managing robust, multi-platform data pipelines (BigQuery, GCP) for data consolidation, automated dashboard generation, and critical API integrations.
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Fadi Shoaa

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AI Engineer | Microsoft Fabric | Data Engineering | Enterprise AI | Document AI

Oberhausen
Fadi Shoaa

Last position:

Development of a production-ready Enterprise Document AI & Recommendation Platform at Freelancer

  • Development of a production-ready Enterprise AI solution for the automated processing of invoices and business documents
  • Integration of Azure AI Document Intelligence and LLM technologies into existing business processes
  • Development of robust REST APIs for automated document processing and system integration
  • Extraction, validation, and storage of structured invoice data in Azure SQL as a base for analytics and machine learning models
  • Development of an AI-based recommendation engine with machine learning and deep learning to generate personalized product recommendations based on historical purchase data
  • Implementation of logging, monitoring, error handling, and validation mechanisms for stable production use
  • Collaboration with business teams to define business rules and integrate the solution into existing enterprise processes

Technologies: Python, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI, Azure SQL Database, REST APIs, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, OCR, Pandas, JSON, Workflow Automation

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Michael Nelz

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Senior ML Engineer | AI Engineer | Problem Solver

Eichenau
Michael Nelz

Last position:

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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Karen Manukyan

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Senior .NET Backend Engineer | Applied AI | Agentic Systems, RAG & Distributed Architecture

Munich
Karen Manukyan

Last position:

Personal AI Engineering Project — Croky AI at Crocky AI

Product:

  • Built a production-ready AI platform for generating brand-aware marketing images and videos from product data, user requirements, and uploaded media.
  • Own the platform architecture, technical roadmap, API design, security, deployment workflow, operational reliability, and model-provider strategy.
  • Developed the core platform in .NET and built supporting AI and workflow prototypes in Python, applying language-independent API contracts and structured interfaces between services and model providers.
  • Implemented reliable background processing with RabbitMQ, persisted workflow state, idempotent handling, retries, failure recovery, logging, secure storage, authorization, and credit accounting.
  • Made pragmatic build-versus-buy and model-routing decisions based on reliability, latency, cost, and maintainability rather than novelty.

Agent Orchestration & RAG Systems

  • Built and compared agent workflows using Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, and LangChain, including tool use, conditional routing, clarification steps, state management, and hand-offs between agents.
  • Implemented reusable .NET components for agents, prompts, tools, model providers, structured responses, and retrieval with pyvector, making it easier to change AI providers without rewriting the core workflow.

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Statistics of experts using Docker

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

16 years

Position duration

5.1 years

Positions per freelancer

11

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

91%

Master's degree or higher

59%

Doctorate

9%

Certifications per freelancer

2

Most common languages

English, German, French

Speak two or more languages

97%

Based on our profile pool as of 6 Sep 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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Average rates of experts using Docker

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

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Daily rate avg. 741 €

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Median rate 760 €

The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.

Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 6 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the technology

Container basics

Docker turns software and its dependencies into containers that run the same way across laptops, test systems, and servers. Companies use it to package web apps, APIs, background workers, and data services without changing each environment by hand.

What teams build

Docker experts help with:

  • Application images for services and microservices
  • Docker Compose setups for local stacks and demos
  • CI pipelines that build, scan, and publish images
  • Deployment workflows for cloud and hybrid systems

Core ecosystem

Strong professionals work with the Docker CLI, Docker Engine, Dockerfile, and Docker Compose. They also understand registries, base images, multi-stage builds, networking, volumes, and secret handling. In many projects, they pair Docker with Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Terraform.

When companies bring help

Teams often need freelance Docker expertise when a project must move from ad hoc setup to a repeatable container flow. Common cases include slow onboarding, inconsistent test environments, oversized images, failing builds, and services that work on one machine but not another.

What good experts do

Good Docker specialists keep images small, clear, and safe to run. They separate build steps from runtime steps, use stable tags, reduce privilege, and document how to start, stop, inspect, and debug containers. They also leave clean files that other experts can maintain.

Hiring well in practice

For many teams, Docker work touches both development and operations. That matters in remote setups, where clear handover and written setup notes are essential, and in office-based teams that want direct collaboration on local environments and release flow. In Germany, the same applies when English project communication is the norm.

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Frequently asked questions

What clients ask us most about Docker — answered in short.

Docker is used to package an application with the libraries and system pieces it needs so it runs the same way in different environments. Companies use it for local development, test setups, build pipelines, and deployment images for web services, APIs, workers, and data tools.

Docker containers share the host system and stay lighter than virtual machines, so they start faster and use fewer resources. VMs isolate a full guest system, while Docker focuses on consistent packaging and runtime behavior for software.

A strong Docker specialist usually knows Docker Compose, image design, Linux basics, shell scripting, and CI/CD tooling. In many projects, knowledge of Kubernetes, cloud runtimes, and registry management is also important because containers rarely live alone.

Docker help is useful when setup is inconsistent, builds are slow, images are too large, or teams cannot reproduce bugs across environments. It is also a good fit when a product is moving to containers for the first time and the team needs clean files and clear operating rules.

A simple Docker setup can be handled by someone who knows image building, Compose, and basic troubleshooting. More complex work needs deeper skill with networking, storage, security, multi-stage builds, and deployment patterns across multiple services.

Docker work is often remote-friendly because most tasks are done in files, images, and pipelines. On-site sessions can help when a team needs to untangle local setup problems, but written instructions and shared containers keep collaboration smooth in either format.

A good Docker professional writes readable Dockerfiles, keeps images focused, avoids unnecessary layers, and explains the build and run process clearly. Look for people who can also reason about security, debugging, and how containers fit into the wider delivery flow.

Docker is the core tool for building and running containers, while Docker Compose describes and starts multi-container setups together. Compose is especially useful when an app needs a database, cache, worker, and API to run as one local stack.

The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used Docker in their recent projects is 93 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 741 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers who have used Docker in their recent projects, 91% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 59% hold at least a Master's degree, and 9% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers who have used Docker in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 5.1 years.

The most common languages among freelancers who have used Docker in their recent projects are English (97%), German (97%), and French (15%).

The most common industries among freelancers who have used Docker in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Banking and Finance (41%), and Automotive (37%).

The most common business areas among freelancers who have used Docker in their recent projects are Information Technology (98%), Product Development (89%), and Quality Assurance (53%).

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