Energy Trading Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Energy Trading
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.
Thomas Hoefkens
Last position:
Senior MLOps, DevOps Engineer at Trianel Energy
- Build and operate an end-to-end MLOps platform on Azure ML and Kubernetes (Kubeflow) for the automated deployment, monitoring, and scaling of forecasting models (including Temporal Fusion Transformer, Informer, Autoformer).
- Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for the full ML lifecycle – from resource provisioning (Terraform), data transformation (Hugging Face Datasets, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA cluster) through training and evaluation to model registry and endpoint deployment.
- Integrate MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, performance monitoring, and automated registration in the Azure Model Registry.
- Develop and containerize PyTorch training jobs (Azure Notebook, Jupyter Notebooks) for price and time series forecasting (PFC models) with automatic rollout via Azure ML Endpoints and REST/gRPC interfaces, Docker containerization, secured with OAuth 2.0.
- Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms (Prometheus, MLflow Metrics), log centralization, and cost monitoring.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and model deployment using Terraform, Helm, and Azure CLI; connect to existing market data systems and event pipelines.
- Migrate existing workloads and databases (IONOS → Azure, MongoDB) with integration into central MLOps workflows and internal networks.
- Extend the platform with LLM-based tools (LangChain, LangServe) to integrate GPT-based analysis modules into existing Spring Boot services for market anomaly detection and automated reports.
- Analyze and architect a software solution to process large volumes of data efficiently (>3000 messages/sec.) (market data store).
- Spring Boot / Java 21 container development with RabbitMQ for distributing stock market data via MongoDB (Kubernetes) with fast storage of data in Redis RMaps, deduplication, forwarding messages to Read Model queues, and building Read Models for UI display in MongoDB.
- Integration of RESTHeart to create a REST API for MongoDB.
- Build an Angular frontend to simplify data queries and master data maintenance.
- Agentic coding with remote and local LLMs (Claude Sonnet, Ollama Qwen) and MCP servers.
- Develop Python scripts for transforming and cleaning incoming stock market data (Pandas, scikit-learn).
Christoph Duschl
Last position:
Lead Product Designer at BSH Home Appliances
Lead Product Designer for BSH's Crosschannel / D2C e-commerce platform — translating complex business requirements into scalable, user-centered shopping experiences for B/S/H/ and partner stores worldwide.
- Design UI, user flows, and components for a multi-themed design system serving 10+ brands — libraries, token structures, and cross-product consistency.
- Drive Design Ops: leaner workflows, cleaner processes, scalable practices.
- Align product, engineering, and business stakeholders on priorities and design decisions for smooth delivery.
- Partner with Business Analysts to frame problem spaces and validate assumptions before pixels.
Thorsten Lenzen
Last position:
Senior Security Analyst
- Analysis and remediation of security vulnerabilities in a risk assessment system for energy trading
- System analysis
- Threat modeling
- Decision-making on vulnerability mitigation strategies
- Implementation of vulnerability detection mechanisms
- Security scans
- DevSecOps practices
- Technical environment: Visual Studio Code, JetBrains Suite, MS Threat Modeling Tool, DevSecOps, Git, AWS, DynamoDB, SQL Server, Endur, Snowflake, Orca
- Languages: C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PowerShell, Bash, Terraform, SQL
Axel Gierspeck
Last position:
Management Consultant, Business Analyst at SEFE Energy GmbH
- Process management, project management
- Business process modeling market-to-order, order-to-cash
- Replacement of an existing CRM system
- Salesforce energy & utilities cloud, Aurea CRM, SAP-Signavio, iGrafx
Moritz Freyburger
Last position:
AWS Developer/DevOps Engineer (Energy Trading) at RWE Supply & Trading GmbH
- Further development and partial new development of a distributed cloud application for providing data in energy trading
- Independent implementation of the infrastructure (IaC)
- Creation of automated CI/CD pipelines, containers, REST APIs, and Lambdas
- Continuous cost and performance optimization
- Collaboration in an international Scrum team and with experts in energy trading
- Technologies: C#/ASP.NET Core; EF Core; PostgreSQL; Terraform/AWS CloudFormation; HTTP; REST/Web API; Swagger/OpenAPI; Azure DevOps; Rider; VS Code; git; Docker; AWS (S3, EC2, Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions, Secrets Manager, VPCs, ALB/NLB, RDS, Cloudwatch, AWS CLI, Amazon MQ); Redis; OAuth; OpenID Connect
- Languages: C#; TypeScript; HCL; Docker; Bash; PowerShell; YML; JSON
Marius Toader
Last position:
Senior IT Project and Process Manager at Sunnic Lighthouse GmbH
Thorough process analysis to identify weaknesses and assess optimization potential
Precise modeling of business processes using BPMN 2.0
Creation of detailed requirements and functional specifications to document use cases
Comprehensive gathering of existing company processes
In-depth process analyses to uncover potentials
Moderation and facilitation of workshops with subject matter experts and executives
Taking on project management for selecting and implementing a new ETRM system environment
Christian Schmitt
Last position:
Operation Manager at Xerof
- Working within a Swiss-regulated Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) offering institutional-grade crypto-fiat financial solutions
- Contributed to on-/off-ramp infrastructure enabling clients to convert between cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies
- Supported the rollout of Web3 payments & third-party payment services to streamline crypto operations for businesses
- Engaged with AML/KYC / regulatory compliance to ensure operations met Swiss regulatory standards
- Assisted in product development or deployment for crypto-backed real estate / luxury goods transactions
- Collaborated with institutional and high-net-worth clients to tailor crypto / financial services offerings
- Bridged traditional banking and Web3 by reducing frictions in fiat-crypto transactions
Simone Amoroso
Last position:
Head of Technology & CISO at AI Quality and Testing Hub
- Lead developer of Prof. Valmed, the first LLM-powered medical device (utilising RAG on a medical corpus of 2.5M+ documents) to receive a CE certification.
- Designed and implemented cloud-native MLOps infrastructure for ENBW’s energy trading analytics division, enabling scalable deployment and monitoring of predictive models.
- Architected end-to-end testing and validation frameworks for AI/ML systems, ensuring quality, compliance, and robustness in critical and regulated applications.
- Conducted professional training on AI testing, EU regulatory frameworks, and quality assurance for production AI systems.
Vaikunth Shanbhag
Last position:
Technology Consultant – Hydrogen Systems Engineering at Bashpa Energy Technology Solutions
- Consulting & strategic advisory in areas related systems engineering, infrastructure development, techno-economic feasibility, sector coupling and regulatory aspects of green hydrogen in India to evaluate integration and decarbonization opportunities.
- Developed data-driven models of renewable distributed energy resources (wind, solar and hydel) to evaluate the cost of green hydrogen production, distribution and application, aiming for commercial viability and affordability.
- Spearheaded the modelling of the Indian electricity grid and simulation of load balancing to estimate the short- and long-term energy market flexibility analysis to support energy trading and risk management for hydrogen assets.
- Leading AI-enabled software development to support decision-making and accelerate the adoption of a hydrogen economy in India.
Karissa Schueler
Last position:
Co-Founder/CEO/AI Solutions Developer at Beryllium Technologies
- Spearheading a forming start-up with a team of 3 people
- Managing project management tasks, innovation, strategy, and implementing deep tech solutions in the finance sector and beyond
- Developed avant-garde processes for outdated systems
- Won a partnership with a large finance firm
Marco Pennacchiotti
Last position:
Head of Data Science and Data Engineering at Entrix
- Established and leading multi-year research roadmap
- Developed and implementing hiring plan for science and data
- Spearheading data engineering efforts in the company
- Led the team to deploy a new trading algorithm, increasing assets’ revenue of 18%
Stefan Simrock
Last position:
Business Analyst at Large municipal utility
- Conducting business analysis for battery energy storage systems and their marketing (BESS)
- End-to-end view of optimization and marketing processes including sales, technical qualification, implementation, optimization, marketing, billing, and cross-functional processes
- Designing and facilitating workshops with business units
- Preparing, aligning, and anchoring requirements
- Transitioning to the solution design phase and mapping requirements to IT solutions
Kai Eckert
Last position:
Editor-in-chief Energy at DVV Media Group GmbH
- Management, organization, and team leadership of the EID Energy Information Service editorial team (until 06/2024) with a daily online portal and the weekly print magazine
- Giving talks and moderating industry events
- Strategic development of the product portfolio and modularization of content
- Interview partner as an expert for daily press, radio, and TV stations
Ninad Kulkarni
Last position:
Business Development Manager Growth Initiative Europe & APAC at RWE Supply & Trading
- Working with the Commodity Flow Desk Global team to expand sales trading activities through market, customer and data analysis
- Understanding the global energy markets and commodity trading setups in Europe and APAC to support customers’ needs and broaden product offerings
- Applying sales trading expertise across commodities like gas, power, coal, oil and carbon certificates in both financial and physical trading environments
- Analyzing customer, trading and market trends to create robust trading lifecycle flowcharts to remain highly competitive in the global energy market
- Developing continuous reporting structures by leveraging GenAI tools for KPI monitoring and big data analyses
- Supporting internal stakeholder management within the European and APAC teams
- Adapting software solutions to foster further growth and organizing IT infrastructure strategy for CFDG’s activities
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Statistics of experts using Energy Trading
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
20 years
Position duration
2 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Energy, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
94%
Master's degree or higher
71%
Doctorate
24%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
95%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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.
Average rates of experts in Germany using Energy Trading
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 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
Energy trading brings together market data, trade capture, risk checks, scheduling, and settlement for power, gas, and related commodities. It supports front-office, middle-office, and back-office work across day-ahead, intraday, and longer-term positions. Strong experts understand how trades move from quote to confirmation to settlement.
Core systems
- ETRM and CTRM support for trade capture and lifecycle tracking
- Market data feeds, curves, nominations, and position views
- Risk controls, exposure checks, and P&L reporting
- Settlement, invoicing, and exception handling
These specialists often work with vendor systems, custom services, and data pipelines that connect trading desks with operations.
Typical use cases
Companies bring in freelance expertise when they need to introduce a new trading workflow, stabilize a legacy platform, or connect several systems around one source of truth. This is common in utilities, energy suppliers, trading houses, and industrial firms active in Germany and across Europe. The work often spans analysis, delivery, and support.
What strong specialists do
Strong professionals can translate business rules into reliable system behavior. They understand trade lifecycle details, scheduling constraints, reconciliation, and the reporting needs of operations and risk teams.
- They ask precise questions about products, regions, and settlement rules.
- They know where manual steps create control gaps.
- They document changes clearly for business and technical teams.
- They work well with data, integrations, and release processes.
Skills around the work
Energy trading projects often sit next to SQL, APIs, messaging, Excel-based controls, and cloud or on-prem systems. Depending on the stack, experts may also work with pricing models, reference data, workflow tools, and reporting layers. In Germany, many teams expect clear communication in English, and sometimes German for local operations.
When to bring in help
Freelance specialists are useful when deadlines are tight, knowledge is locked in one team, or a change affects trading, risk, and operations at once. They can also help during vendor rollouts, system migrations, audit preparation, and post-launch support. The best engagements stay close to the real market process, not just the software.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about Energy Trading, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
A strong Energy Trading specialist helps design and run the systems that move trades through capture, validation, risk, and settlement. That can include ETRM configuration, market data integration, workflow rules, and support for reporting and reconciliation. The goal is a process that matches how the trading desk and operations team really work.
Not exactly, but they are closely linked. Energy Trading is the business domain, while ETRM refers to the software and control layer used to manage trades, positions, and settlements. Many projects need someone who understands both the trading process and the ETRM system behind it.
A Energy Trading project often includes ETRM or CTRM software, market data services, SQL databases, APIs, message queues, and reporting tools. Many teams also rely on spreadsheets and manual controls for checks and exception handling. The best specialists know how these pieces connect without breaking trade flow.
It depends on the scope. A simple integration or reporting fix may need a specialist with solid system knowledge, while a migration or market rollout needs deeper domain experience in trading, settlement, and controls. For high-risk changes, choose someone who has worked on live trading environments before.
Energy Trading is the broader term. Power trading is one part of it and focuses on electricity, while energy trading can also include gas, certificates, and other related products. Searchers often use both terms, so a good specialist should understand the wider market context.
Yes, many Energy Trading tasks can be handled remotely, especially analysis, integration work, testing, and documentation. On-site time can still help when the work is close to trading operations, release windows, or stakeholder workshops. For Germany, clear written communication and strong process discipline matter either way.
Look for real examples of trade lifecycle work, not just generic software delivery. A solid Energy Trading freelancer should be able to explain how they handled market data, positions, settlement exceptions, and controls in past projects. Ask how they work with business users, test edge cases, and keep changes traceable.
The most useful adjacent skills are SQL, integration design, data analysis, and process mapping. Many Energy Trading assignments also benefit from knowledge of risk, settlement, reporting, and vendor systems. If the project touches Germany-specific operations, language skills and strong stakeholder communication can help a lot.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Energy Trading in their recent projects is 106 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 844 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Energy Trading in their recent projects, 94% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 71% hold at least a Master's degree, and 24% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Energy Trading in their recent projects have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Energy Trading in their recent projects are English (100%), German (90%), and French (33%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Energy Trading in their recent projects are Energy (95%), Information Technology (76%), and Manufacturing (48%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Energy Trading in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (86%), and Operations (81%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Energy Trading
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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