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Stefan A.

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Senior Backend Architect — Regulated Java & Go Systems

Forstern
Stefan A.

Last position:

Sole Architect and Developer at Bauernhof-Eis Stangl GbR

Design and implementation of a compact ERP, CRM, accounting, and production-planning platform for a German food manufacturer. The system replaces Rechnung11, self-built Excel sheets, and manual processes for fewer than 10 internal users.

  • Designed and implemented the full platform architecture as sole architect and developer.
  • Built modules for customer management, B2B order handling, invoicing, production planning, and accounting support.
  • Implemented DATEV export, ZUGFeRD/XRechnung e-invoicing, FinTS bank statement synchronization, and GoBD audit trail concepts.
  • Used AI-supported workflows for prototyping, test support, and implementation acceleration while retaining full architecture, review, testing strategy, and technical ownership.

Technology: Java 23, Spring Boot 3, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, Vue 3, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Flyway, REST, OpenAPI, JWT, TOTP, RBAC, DATEV, FinTS, ZUGFeRD, XRechnung, GoBD, JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers, Playwright, Docker, GitLab CI/CD

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Alexander H.

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Healthcare Market Cluster Leadership | Digital Health Platforms | Healthcare Ecosystem Strategy

Immenstaad
Alexander H.

Last position:

Vice President Sales Key Accounts at Compugrou Medical (CGM)

  • Hospital Information System
  • Development of the DACH market strategy
  • Responsibility for strategic key accounts and complex enterprise sales projects in the hospital market in Germany and Switzerland.
  • Management of pipeline, forecasting, and key account activities for Clinical DE/CH, as well as further development of the growth and account strategy.
  • Management of complex hospital information system transformation and migration programs for hospital networks—from bid strategy and stakeholder management to alignment with Solution Management, Delivery, and partners.
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Stephan G.

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Senior Backend Software Developer

Augsburg
Stephan G.

Last position:

Senior Backend Software Developer at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovations

  • Further development and operation of a central backend service for providing vehicle inventory for international Mercedes-Benz online shops
  • Further development of a reservation service for vehicles as part of the checkout process
  • Design and implementation of a highly scalable end-to-end test architecture with a focus on maintainability, reusability, and a high number of automated test cases
  • Development of a multi-layer test infrastructure with a strict separation of test logic and access layers
  • Development of an initialization and caching architecture to significantly speed up local and CI/CD-based test runs
  • Development of an AI-supported review architecture for automated evaluation and quality assurance of end-to-end tests
  • Development of a dashboard for consolidated display of a vehicle context across multiple backend systems, including AI-generated summaries and compact case analyses
  • Integration and further development of connections to various reservation systems via Apache Kafka and REST
  • Design of new microservices and support with architecture decisions
  • Risk analysis and design of microservice migrations
  • Technologies: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Gradle, Maven, Apache Kafka, REST, OpenAPI, Swagger, Github, Confluence, CI/CD, Microservices, AI, LLMs
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Andreas B.

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Senior Software Developer

Troisdorf
Andreas B.

Last position:

Senior Software Developer at ELIONOVA AG

  • Created an application to control measurement hardware with a Tauri application using React.JS and TypeScript on Raspberry Pi
  • Developed a cloud application for storing and analyzing measurement results using Spring Boot and React.JS
  • Built a Tauri application for printing ZPL labels on Windows
  • Technologies: Java, JavaScript, Tauri, Rust, React.JS, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, REST API (JSON), Maven, CI/CD, PostgreSQL
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Stephan M.

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Product Owner

Oststeinbek
Stephan M.

Last position:

Product Owner at Self-employed

  • Industry: Health Care/ IT
  • Tools: Internet, telephone, email, Confluence, Azure DevOps, DISweb, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office, FHIR
  • Requirements engineering for implementing the e-prescription in an existing PVS and a web-based dialysis monitoring system
  • Implementation of the archive and exchange interface of the KBV
  • Creation and maintenance of user stories and backlog maintenance
  • Stakeholder management and support for developers in implementing the user stories
  • Reporting to management and conducting refinements
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Alexandro L.

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Senior Project Manager - RIS & PACS Replacement

Berlin
Alexandro L.

Last position:

Senior Project Manager - RIS & PACS Replacement

  • Replacing an RIS and PACS system in combination with three different software solutions, with a focus on redesigning and further developing existing processes.
  • Ensuring that the individual solutions work together and are integrated into an overall solution to optimally support medical professionals in their daily work.
  • Overall project management, including managing three service providers.
  • Use of technologies and solutions such as RIS, PACS, Smart Reporting and artificial intelligence.
  • Leading the RIS & PACS replacement at a hospital.
  • Supporting the communications strategy.
  • Coordinating external and internal resources.
  • Stakeholder management.
  • Managing steering committees.
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Patrick W.

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AI Software Engineer

Karlsruhe
Patrick W.

Last position:

AI Software Engineer at IppenMedia

  • Analysis
  • Consulting
  • Software design
  • Development
  • Automation
  • Testing
  • Deployment
  • Architecture, development and deployment of various proof-of-concept applications around the integration of current AI interfaces including conversational, realtime voice, images and videos
  • Developed best practices for working with agentic systems and AI in practice
  • Created code templates
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Florian G.

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Senior IT Project Manager Security & Infrastructure & HealthCare Business Developer

München
Florian G.

Last position:

Senior IT Project Manager Security & Infrastructure & HealthCare Business Developer at CGI

  • Responsible project manager for complex international infrastructure projects
  • Coordinator and decision-maker for IT architects in network infrastructure and software with over 100 000 users
  • Holistic project management
  • Launch and implementation of initiatives
  • Project management of international infrastructure projects with C-level reporting
  • Leadership and coordination of IT architects
  • Technical project management for merger and cloud transformation
  • Execution of international software and hardware rollouts
  • Implementation of IT security projects and compliance
  • Working with key technologies (e.g. 5G/6G standard)
  • Management of complex defense and aerospace projects (e.g. Ariane 6, Eurodrone)
  • Establishment of the healthcare and life sciences business unit
  • Creation and management of internal employee training
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Moritz F.

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AWS Developer/DevOps Engineer (Energy Trading)

Ilsfeld
Moritz F.

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
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Peter N.

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IT Project Manager

Ahrensburg
Peter N.

Last position:

Pilot testing AI tools & sabbatical for house renovation

  • Pilot testing local AI environments to explore local AI use cases and cloud-based AI solutions
  • Evaluation of AI tools and techniques
  • Use of local AI tools with own data sovereignty
  • Prompt engineering
  • Creation of example environments for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, text-to-image, text-to-video, and image-to-video

Tools: Grok, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Elevenlabs, Github, Ollama, HuggingFace, Open WebUI, Faster Whisper, LibreTranslate, WSL, Docker Desktop, Shotcut, Audacity, Sound eXchange, Ffmpeg, Coqui TTS, Pinokio, Stable Diffusion Web UI, ComfyUI, OWL, Void Editor

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Werner K.

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Test Coordinator, Designer and Engineer

Bad Homburg
Werner K.

Last position:

Test Coordinator, Designer and Engineer at IBM

  • Testing the SekIDP and related components
  • Test design, execution and automation, microservices, GitHub Enterprise, Eclipse, Katalon Test Platform, API Testing, Confluence 8, JIRA/Xray, Draw.io, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, PuTTY, E-Health, Telematik, Gematik standards, EPA, E-Rezept, sektoraler IDP, encryption, XaDES, PaDES, DICOM, HL7, FHIR, IHE, ICD, SSO, SAML/Shibboleth, OAuth, smartcards, JWT, two factor authentication Android and iOS, Wireshark, BrowserStack, Cypress, gRPC, REST, SOAP, WS-Security, Linux Shell, PowerShell, SSH/SSL, Java, Kotlin, Cordova, Gradle, Groovy, Python, TypeScript
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Lars K.

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Lead Drupal Developer

Hamburg
Lars K.

Last position:

Lead Drupal Developer at x-tention

  • Lead Drupal 10 developer for several greenfield projects in the health sector
  • Drupal architecture in a cloud environment
  • Setup and maintenance of Gitlab pipelines and Kustomize scripts for Kubernetes deployments
  • Development of Docker images
  • Drupal custom module development for clients such as OAuth and FHIR
  • Drupal frontend theming based on Bootstrap 5 and Single Directory Components
  • Setup and maintenance of automated Playwright tests
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Wolfgang O.

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Fullstack Software Developer

Bodolz
Wolfgang O.

Last position:

Fullstack Software Developer at Gematik

  • Development of the frontend of DEMIS (German Electronic Reporting and Information System for Infection Protection)

  • Technologies: Angular, Typescript, Single-SPA MicroFrontend, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, REST

  • Prototype development of a compiler from HL7 FHIR to AngularFormly

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Boas B.

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CTO, Complex Cloud Solutions

Filderstadt
Boas B.

Last position:

Technical Leader and Executive Sponsor, AI Solution Assistant

  • Product owner and Executive Sponsor for AI Assistant trained on a knowledge base of past solution designs, RFP documents, and current product documentation
  • Used by close to 100 global architects and engineers in pre-sales and post-sales
  • Generates full solution documents with requirement driven architecture decisions, solution overview, diagrams, bill of material, roles and responsibility matrix
  • Technologies: AI, LLM, Chat Bot, RAG, Agentic AI, Vector Databases, Public Cloud

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Statistics of experts using HL7 FHIR

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

22 years

HL7 FHIR experts in Germany have 22 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

2.2 years

HL7 FHIR experts in Germany stay in a single position for 2.2 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

15

HL7 FHIR experts in Germany have completed 15 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

HL7 FHIR experts in Germany have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

Top industries

Healthcare, Information Technology, Automotive

HL7 FHIR experts in Germany are most in demand in Healthcare, Information Technology, and Automotive.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Human Resources, Project Management

HL7 FHIR experts in Germany earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Human Resources, and Project Management.

Bachelor's degree or higher

96%

96% of HL7 FHIR experts in Germany hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Master's degree or higher

57%

57% of HL7 FHIR experts in Germany hold at least a Master's degree.

Doctorate

17%

17% of HL7 FHIR experts in Germany have a doctorate (PhD).

Certifications per freelancer

3

HL7 FHIR experts in Germany hold 3 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

German, English, French

HL7 FHIR experts in Germany most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

97%

97% of HL7 FHIR experts in Germany speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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3% of HL7 FHIR experts in Germany charge less than €400 per day.
52% of HL7 FHIR experts in Germany charge between €400 and €800 per day.
34% of HL7 FHIR experts in Germany charge between €800 and €1200 per day.
10% of HL7 FHIR experts in Germany charge €1200 or more per day.
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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 HL7 FHIR

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

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Daily rate avg. 784 €

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 €

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.

HL7 FHIR experts industry focus

See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.

  • Healthcare (100%)
  • Information Technology (100%)
  • Automotive (48%)
  • Manufacturing (45%)
  • Government and Administration (45%)
  • Energy (41%)
  • Banking and Finance (41%)
  • Retail (41%)

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

About the technology

Interoperable healthcare data

HL7 FHIR, short for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, is a standard for exchanging healthcare information through modular resources and modern web APIs. It helps systems share structured patient, clinical and administrative data while preserving context, security and traceability.

What FHIR supports

FHIR is used to connect clinical applications, patient portals, mobile health tools, research systems and payer workflows. Common deliverables include:

  • Patient, Observation, Encounter and Medication resources
  • REST APIs and CapabilityStatements
  • Profiles, extensions and implementation guides
  • Data exchange between EHR and external services

Ecosystem and tooling

Strong work with FHIR combines knowledge of HL7 standards, REST, JSON, XML and OAuth 2.0. Specialists may use HAPI FHIR, Firely tooling, Microsoft Azure Health Data Services, Google Cloud Healthcare API or managed FHIR servers, alongside terminology services and validation tools.

When companies need specialists

Companies often bring in freelance expertise when replacing HL7 v2 interfaces, launching a FHIR-based product or preparing an implementation guide. Projects can also require help with migration, conformance testing, API security or integration across fragmented clinical systems. In Germany, collaboration may involve hospital groups, health insurers, medtech companies and public-sector healthcare initiatives.

Skills that set professionals apart

A capable specialist understands resource modeling, cardinalities, references, slicing and terminology binding rather than treating FHIR as simple JSON. They can translate clinical workflows into profiles, work with SNOMED CT, LOINC and ICD, and explain trade-offs to both technical and healthcare stakeholders. They also document decisions clearly and test real interoperability.

Remote delivery and quality

FHIR projects can often be delivered remotely when access, governance and clinical decisions are well organized. On-site workshops may still help with workflow discovery, especially when teams operate in German and English across hospitals or regulated environments. Assess experts through concrete artifacts: profiles, mappings, test cases, validation results and a clear approach to consent, audit and data protection.

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Frequently asked questions

The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to HL7 FHIR.

HL7 FHIR is used to exchange healthcare data between EHRs, hospital systems, payer applications, patient portals and connected health services. Its resources and APIs support clinical records, scheduling, medications, observations and other workflows.

FHIR uses modular resources and web-friendly APIs, while HL7 v2 commonly relies on message segments and CDA uses structured clinical documents. The right choice depends on existing interfaces, workflow needs, governance and the level of granular data access required.

A strong HL7 FHIR specialist usually also understands REST APIs, JSON, XML, OAuth 2.0 and identity management. Useful healthcare knowledge includes terminology services, SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD, clinical workflows and data protection practices.

The required depth depends on the scope, from validating a few resources to defining a full implementation guide and integration strategy. For production healthcare exchanges, look for a professional who has modeled profiles, handled terminology and tested interoperability with real systems.

Yes, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources projects can often be delivered remotely with secure access, clear documentation and regular technical workshops. On-site sessions may be useful for clinical discovery, stakeholder alignment or teams that prefer German-language collaboration.

FHIR work may involve HAPI FHIR, Firely tooling, Azure Health Data Services, Google Cloud Healthcare API and other managed or self-hosted servers. Validation tools, terminology servers, API gateways and automated conformance tests are also common.

Ask a FHIR professional to explain resource choices, profiles, references, terminology bindings and error handling using a concrete project example. Review sample mappings, validation tests, security decisions and documentation rather than relying only on familiarity with the standard.

A FHIR freelancer should clarify the target release, implementation guide, source systems, data scope, terminology requirements and conformance expectations. They should also confirm access rules, decision owners, deployment constraints and whether the work covers design, integration, testing or ongoing support.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used HL7 FHIR in their recent projects is 98 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 784 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used HL7 FHIR in their recent projects, 96% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 57% hold at least a Master's degree, and 17% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used HL7 FHIR in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used HL7 FHIR in their recent projects are German (97%), English (97%), and French (21%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used HL7 FHIR in their recent projects are Healthcare (100%), Information Technology (100%), and Automotive (48%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used HL7 FHIR in their recent projects are Information Technology (97%), Product Development (97%), and Project Management (66%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used HL7 FHIR

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.

Berlin Hamburg Munich Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Dusseldorf Leipzig Dortmund Essen Bremen Dresden Hanover Nuremberg

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