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Aruldass A.

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Full-stack AI Engineer

Berlin
Aruldass A.

Last position:

Web Module Lead at Mphasis Limited

  • Led the end-to-end delivery of enterprise full-stack web applications by driving requirement analysis, solution design, frontend and backend development, database design, API integration, code reviews, team coordination, Agile execution, CI/CD deployments, production support, performance optimization, security implementation, and stakeholder collaboration to deliver scalable, high-quality software solutions.
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Murad H.

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Senior Software Engineer · Tech Lead · AI Engineer

Berlin
Murad H.

Last position:

Founder & Technical Lead at Hubpoint.Ai

  • Founded an AI-powered scheduling and business-management SaaS for SMBs, owning technology strategy, architecture, product development, UX, billing and go-to-market execution.
  • Architected and shipped a multi-tenant platform with REST APIs, RBAC, CRM, billing and notifications, powering the manager dashboard, admin console, booking experience and iOS/Android applications.
  • Led and mentored 7 software engineers, 1 DevOps engineer, 1 QA engineer and 1 UX/UI designer, while remaining hands-on across backend, frontend and product delivery.
  • Built AI voice and chat agents using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, RAG, pgvector and tool calling; integrated Twilio, Google Calendar/Meet, Stripe and Firebase.
  • Owned production infrastructure and automated delivery across separate environments using Docker, Nginx, GitHub Actions and Grafana; represented the company at accelerators and international startup events.

Selected stack: Python, FastAPI, Node.js, Vue 3, React/Next.js, React Native, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker

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Wolfram K.

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Certified AI & Machine Learning Engineer · Senior Consultant

Berlin
Wolfram K.

Last position:

AI / Machine Learning Engineer (Projects & Applied AI) at UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHEON-SORBONNE & LIORA

  • Designed and implemented a hybrid recommendation system (content-based + collaborative filtering)
  • Built end-to-end ML pipelines including data processing, feature engineering, model training, and evaluation
  • Developed RAG-based LLM systems using LangChain and vector databases for semantic search and knowledge retrieval
  • Established MLOps workflows with MLflow for experiment tracking, versioning, and deployment readiness
  • Implemented deep learning models (computer vision & classification) using PyTorch and TensorFlow
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Ersin K.

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Founder & Lead Architect

Schönefeld
Ersin K.

Last position:

Founder & Lead Architect at ORBYNT / 7Style

  • Full automation of the software development process: ticket analysis → AI coding agents → pull request → automated code review → deployment
  • Multi-tenant architecture with 82 database models and real-time WebSocket monitoring
  • Integration of 40+ AI tools with Claude & GPT
  • Tech stack: React, TypeScript, Express.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ
  • Platform in productive use with paying customers
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Nikunjkumar P.

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Senior Java Backend Developer

Kleinmachnow
Nikunjkumar P.

Last position:

Senior Java Backend Developer at Questax Professionals GmbH

  • Provide the Price Listing Service team with prices for all cars and vans in different markets
  • Adapt market-specific requirements such as taxes, government subsidies, campaigns
  • Import and synchronize new prices for all new and existing cars and store them in the Redis datastore
  • Support our product and on-call duty
  • Daily business, development of new features, bug fixing
  • Pair programming, code review, mob programming
  • Develop POCs for new ideas
  • Maintain and extend the backend
  • DevOps tasks
  • Run Kubernetes updates
  • Adjust and further develop Kubernetes resources
  • Develop and adapt Helm charts
  • Adapt and update ArgoCD
  • Maintain, adapt, and improve CI/CD
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Oleg A.

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Staff Software Engineer

Berlin
Oleg A.

Last position:

Staff Software Engineer at Kpler Germany GmbH

  • Delivered a new notifications platform implementation built from scratch to replace existing and upcoming services
  • Collaborating with other teams to integrate more domains

Tech stack:

  • Data: Scala 3, Apache Kafka, Python, Airflow, Astronomer
  • BE-FE: TypeScript, NestJS, Java, Spring Boot, Vue
  • Dev-ops: AWS, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD
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Ottavio B.

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AI Systems Architect

Berlin
Ottavio B.

Last position:

Semantic Test Framework for LLMs

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Julien L.

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MLOps Engineer

Berlin
Julien L.

Last position:

MLOps Engineer at SAMGEN

  • Building and scaling cloud infrastructure on GCP to support a SaaS platform for industrial clients
  • Designing and implementing a data-driven DevOps pipeline for streamlined deployment and CI/CD workflows
  • Collaborating with Data Science team on MLOps workflow to automate integrated retraining
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René P.

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Founder and CEO

Berlin
René P.

Last position:

Full Stack Developer at XPS Software

  • Industry: B2B
  • Headless frontend with AEM integration
  • Key challenge: Migrating a PWA application in live operation based on .NET and legacy code; the entire application must be converted to React and Express.js/TypeScript
  • Technical frameworks: Tailwind, XML, JavaScript, Caddy, ReactJS, Express.js, REST API, JSON
  • Cloudflare CDN
  • Caddy server with GitHub CI/CD pipeline
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Olaf N.

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Frontend Engineer

Berlin
Olaf N.

Last position:

Frontend Engineer at Danaher/Hach Lange GmbH

  • Developed a SolidJS frontend UI for a spectrometric water analysis system on an ARM-based embedded Linux platform
  • Prototyped UI in TypeScript React/Nx with LitElements and MQTT integration
  • Built production UI using SolidJS, SUID, i18next, Ajv, MQTT.js, C3.js
  • Refined requirements with UX team and water analysis system engineers
  • Defined and documented system architecture, MQTT message formats, frontend architecture, and development setup
  • Set up frontend system from scratch, implemented domain-oriented type system, UI components, and application state
  • Managed MQTT pub/sub services and schema-based message validation in frontend
  • Coached two junior frontend developers
  • Worked in an agile remote team using JIRA, Git, and Bitbucket
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Max D.

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Tech Lead, Interim CTO/CPO

Berlin
Max D.

Last position:

Tech Lead, Interim CTO/CPO at MatchDispatch

I worked on automating cold outreach.

  • Developed a queue architecture to support the parallel execution of large volumes of background tasks.
  • Integrated multiple email delivery providers.
  • Implemented an LLM-based data enrichment process.

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Node.js, Next.js, Drizzle ORM, PostgreSQL, Next-Auth, JWT, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, CloudFlare, Traefik, Groq, Jest, Figma

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Edoardo P.

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Senior Backend Developer/Product Engineer

Berlin
Edoardo P.

Last position:

Lead Backend Developer at Aware

Led backend engineering across core domains (main backend, notifications, medical knowledge base, results processing), owning delivery quality, team growth, and engineering standards.

Signature Outcomes

Shipped a flexible, no-code membership platform (pricing, packages, duration), enabling commercial changes without engineering involvement and keeping membership tiers coherent over time.

Built a high-impact backend team through mentorship, coaching engineers into independent contributors and establishing onboarding documentation that enabled fast ramp-up.

Scaled the team from 2 → 5 engineers while maintaining delivery cadence and code quality; owned hiring pipelines and onboarding.

Partnered closely with Product during design to assess feasibility, sequence work, and make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, tech debt, and long-term maintainability.

Institutionalized testing and simplicity as defaults, enforcing high test coverage and a “simple-first” architecture approach.

Tech & Practices

Stack: Node.js (TypeScript), Express, PostgreSQL; microservices (Node & Go); event-driven async jobs.

Practices: Testing as a release gate, lightweight design reviews, iterative delivery, documentation-driven onboarding.

Compliance & Security: Led implementation of Privacy Officer recommendations (GDPR and German healthcare regulations).

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Jan S.

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Fullstack Developer

Berlin
Jan S.

Last position:

Fullstack Developer at Summify.News

  • Developing an AI-enabled platform that summarizes YouTube channels into daily digests with article and podcast formats.
  • Built scalable backend in Node.js integrating OpenAI Whisper for transcription and GPT for summarization.
  • Implemented frontend in React with TypeScript, ensuring responsive design and accessibility.
  • Set up automated deployment pipelines and CI/CD with Docker & GitHub Actions.
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Smit K.

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Software Engineer (Backend & API Lead)

Berlin
Smit K.

Last position:

Software Engineer (Backend & API Lead) at Surpeats

  • Backend & API architecture: Independently architected a scalable Node.js backend and RESTful API to handle a high volume of transactions, ensuring robust data management for users, restaurants, and administrators.
  • Microservices & infrastructure: Engineered a sophisticated database architecture using PostgreSQL with geographic query optimization. Designed and deployed a robust infrastructure with three separate microservice servers and a database server.
  • Performance & scalability: Implemented Redis caching and performed SQL query optimization to improve application performance and reduce load on the database, enhancing responsiveness for real-time services.
  • Security & authentication: Integrated secure payment processing via Razorpay and implemented robust middleware for JWT authentication to ensure secure transactions and data integrity.
  • CI/CD & deployment: Established a robust CI/CD pipeline using Docker and GitHub Actions for automated and reliable deployment, showcasing fluency in modern DevOps practices.

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Statistics of experts using Express.js

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

17 years (Germany: 16 years)

Express.js experts in Berlin have 17 years of professional experience on average. It is 1 year more than in Germany, where the average stands at 16 years.

Position duration

1.7 years (Germany: 2.2 years)

Express.js experts in Berlin stay in a single position for 1.7 years on average. It is 0.5 years less than in Germany, where the average stands at 2.2 years.

Positions per freelancer

11

Express.js experts in Berlin have completed 11 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Express.js experts in Berlin have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Quality Assurance.

Top industries

Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Healthcare

Express.js experts in Berlin are most in demand in Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, and Healthcare.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

Express.js experts in Berlin earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Product Development, and Business Intelligence.

Bachelor's degree or higher

89% (Germany: 90%)

89% of Express.js experts in Berlin hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 1% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 90%.

Master's degree or higher

44% (Germany: 45%)

44% of Express.js experts in Berlin hold at least a Master's degree. It is 1% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 45%.

Certifications per freelancer

1

Express.js experts in Berlin hold 1 professional certification on average.

Most common languages

English, German, Spanish

Express.js experts in Berlin most often speak English, German, and Spanish.

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 98%)

100% of Express.js experts in Berlin speak two or more languages. It is 2% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 98%.

Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.

Daily rate distribution

0 2 4 6 8
2 of the Express.js experts in Berlin charge less than €320 per day.
2 of the Express.js experts in Berlin charge between €480 and €640 per day.
5 of the Express.js experts in Berlin charge between €640 and €800 per day.
4 of the Express.js experts in Berlin charge between €800 and €960 per day.
4 of the Express.js experts in Berlin charge between €960 and €1120 per day.
One of the Express.js experts in Berlin charges €1120 or more per day.
<€320 €480-​640 €640-​800 €800-​960 €960-​1120 €1120+

The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Berlin 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 Berlin using Express.js

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

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Daily rate avg. 776 €
Germany avg. 743 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 760 €
Germany median 720 €

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.

Express.js 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 (100%)
  • Media and Entertainment (52%)
  • Healthcare (43%)
  • Retail (43%)
  • Education (38%)
  • Banking and Finance (33%)
  • Professional Services (33%)
  • Tourism (29%)

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

About the technology

Express.js at a glance

Express.js is a lightweight web framework for Node.js. It provides routing, middleware and HTTP utilities for building APIs, web applications and backend services without imposing a rigid application structure. Its small core lets teams choose the libraries and conventions that fit their system.

Where it fits

Express.js is commonly used when a company needs a focused JavaScript or TypeScript backend that integrates cleanly with existing services. Typical delivery areas include:

  • REST APIs for web and mobile products
  • GraphQL gateways and backend-for-frontend services
  • Authentication, authorization and request validation
  • Server-rendered applications and internal tools

Ecosystem and tooling

Strong work with Express.js usually includes Node.js runtime knowledge, asynchronous programming and package management with npm, pnpm or Yarn. Specialists may also use TypeScript, Prisma, Sequelize or Mongoose, alongside PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and message brokers. Testing often combines Jest, Vitest, Supertest or similar tools.

When companies bring in experts

Companies often seek freelance expertise when an API needs to move from a prototype into production, when an older Node.js service needs restructuring, or when a team is adding endpoints under time pressure. Useful signals include slow request paths, tangled middleware, inconsistent error handling and missing automated tests.

  • Define an API contract and route structure
  • Refactor middleware and service boundaries
  • Add observability, validation and security controls
  • Prepare deployment, testing and technical documentation

What quality looks like

A strong professional separates routing, business logic and data access instead of placing everything in route handlers. They handle asynchronous failures consistently, validate inputs, protect secrets, document API behavior and design for graceful shutdowns. They can also explain trade-offs around REST, GraphQL, server rendering and service decomposition.

Working with Berlin teams

Express.js specialists can support Berlin companies remotely or on site, depending on collaboration needs and data access requirements. Clear written English is common in international product teams, while German may matter for local stakeholders or regulated environments. Effective engagement starts with repository access, API expectations, deployment context and defined acceptance criteria.

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Frequently asked questions

Curious about Express.js? Here are the answers that come up again and again.

Express.js is used to build HTTP servers, REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints and server-rendered web applications on Node.js. It is also useful for authentication layers, webhook receivers, internal tools and backend-for-frontend services.

Express.js has a small, flexible core and leaves more architectural choices to the team. NestJS adds stronger conventions and dependency-injection patterns, while Fastify focuses on high performance and a structured plugin model. The right choice depends on team preferences, existing services and project constraints.

A capable Express.js specialist should understand Node.js, JavaScript or TypeScript, HTTP, API security and asynchronous programming. Useful adjacent skills include SQL or document databases, automated testing, Docker, cloud deployment, logging and observability.

The required depth depends on the system’s risk and complexity. A small internal API may need focused Express.js implementation skills, while a public service calls for proven work with validation, authentication, testing, monitoring, performance and safe deployment.

Yes. Express.js projects are well suited to remote collaboration because code, API specifications, tests and deployment configuration can be reviewed asynchronously. Berlin teams should agree on communication, repository access, working hours and whether any on-site sessions are needed.

Express.js can support large systems when the application is divided into clear modules or services and the surrounding architecture is disciplined. It does not enforce those boundaries, so teams must establish conventions for errors, configuration, security, testing and observability.

A strong Express.js engagement can include a documented route design, validated inputs, consistent error responses, automated tests and updated API documentation. Depending on the brief, the specialist may also deliver database changes, authentication flows, monitoring hooks and deployment guidance.

Ask the specialist to explain middleware order, asynchronous error handling, request validation and the separation between routes and business logic. Review examples of production APIs, testing practices and security decisions, then use a focused technical discussion to assess how clearly they reason about trade-offs in Express.js.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Express.js in their recent projects is 97 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 776 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Express.js in their recent projects, 89% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 44% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Express.js in their recent projects have 17 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.7 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Express.js in their recent projects are English (100%), German (90%), and Spanish (24%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Express.js in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Media and Entertainment (52%), and Healthcare (43%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Express.js in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Quality Assurance (52%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Express.js

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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