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Lilian Feldmann
Last position:
Product Owner at IBM
- Led global automation projects in Hybrid Cloud, focusing on process standardization and service delivery optimization across international teams.
- Managed the product roadmap, prioritized backlogs, and aligned business goals with technical inputs using Jira.
- Fostered cross-functional collaboration to define project objectives and ensure alignment with strategic goals across departments.
- Defined and documented user stories and acceptance criteria with stakeholders.
André Howe
Last position:
Linux IT Admin at ReiserST
- Development and maintenance of IT architectures with embedded Linux systems.
- Designing, implementing, and optimizing backend applications and script-based solutions.
- Analyzing and resolving issues, including troubleshooting and user support.
- Developing and implementing security concepts for cloud solutions.
- Administering networks (DHCP, DNS, NTP, VPN).
- Technologies: Linux, PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Kubernetes, GitLab CI.
- Methods: Kanban.
Fouad Omri
Last position:
CTO at Predapp GmbH
Predapp is a Sovereign AI and Infrastructure company building AI systems that organisations can own, control, and deploy on their terms, with full data sovereignty. As CTO and investor since 2015, leading the development of the Sovereign AI Platform alongside an advisory practice spanning AI strategy for enterprises, fractional CTO engagements, and technical due diligence for VCs, PE, and family offices.
- Architected the Sovereign AI Platform from zero owning technical vision, infrastructure design, and engineering roadmap; currently deployed at a European hospital, an automotive client in Germany, and two US startups, with active commercial discussions with two leading European hosting providers
- Dubai Health Authority (DHA / Nabidh): Designed and trained AI symptom checker and triage system for national 'Doctor for Every Citizen' initiative under HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
- Emirates Airlines: Designed and deployed AI agent for ground personnel accelerating training, improving issue handling, and reducing cost of liquid workforce
- Developed explainable AI triage system piloted at University Hospital Heidelberg and Famagusta Hospital (Cyprus); reduced patient wait times by up to 15% (validation ongoing)
- Built production scheduling engine for US industrial AI startup: RL + Monte Carlo tree search, reducing planning from hours to seconds
- Designed and led the development of semantic search engines using RAG + Knowledge Graphs; developed Agentic Text-to-SQL solution for citizen data scientists
- AI strategy advisory and readiness assessments for enterprise clients, including architecture reviews, maturity assessments, and AI roadmap development
Chetan Sheshikumar
Last position:
Student Research Assistant at Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten (RWU)
- Built and verified Zynq-7000 (Zybo Z7-10) FPGA prototypes in Xilinx Vivado – AXI IP integration, bitstream generation, hardware bring-up, timing-closure checks and waveform-based debug to confirm expected RTL behaviour.
- Set up Cadence Virtuoso schematic/simulation flows and documented settings, results and methodology for reproducible experiments – supporting structured verification and research documentation.
- Wrote Python automation for log parsing, structured data reporting and result analysis; worked daily in version-controlled Linux/Git workflows.
Peter Jehle
Last position:
Interim Teamlead at Somnomedics
- Interim Teamlead to setup a project with STM32 and NORA Bluetooth module.
- Customer is planning new hardware to replace existing hardware with Bluetooth communication instead cable connection.
- Project was already started but the requirements were not defined.
- System based on STM32 and Nora B106 CPU.
- Analyzing the existing available code base.
- Checking for possible solutions to get the project working.
- Defining the requirements.
- Applying some rules to improve the team communication.
- Working with the NRF tools to get the custom board based on NORA B106 (NRF5340) working.
- Implementation of a simple device communication by Bluetooth.
- Preparation of documentation.
- Leading communication meetings.
- Conducted discussions with customer.
- Tools used: JIRA, OneNote, Git, Confluence, Nordic NRF, Nora B106.
Tariq Burki
Last position:
Management Consultant
- Functioned as a Fractional CIO for the GCC's largest gaming distributor, leading a complete IT transformation infrastructure upgrade and outsourcing of IT services and ERP applications
- Oversaw the development and rollout of two CEO-sponsored business systems with a $40 million budget, including the implementation of a comprehensive Hydrocarbon Accounting System (Tieto) and a Supply Chain Management System integrating seven multi-vendor applications across Qatargas, Rasgas, and Qatar Petroleum
- Led Schlumberger's global outsourcing, securing a $350 million deal over five years with a 15% cost reduction, managing a global team of over 30 and implementing operational models and frameworks for chargeback, procurement, and IT management
- Navigated technically intricate and organizationally demanding projects for prestigious companies worldwide across more than 30 countries, leading diverse teams and driving strategic innovation
Stephan Pieper
Last position:
Senior Embedded SW-Architect at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH
- Collaboration with MB (Sindelfingen), NVIDIA (Santa Clara), MBRDI (Bangalore)
- Structure and signal modelling in Rhapsody
- Architectural decision records and requirement reviews
- Technologies: Confluence, Rhapsody, JIRA, DNG, Jama, Slack, GitLab, AWS CDW, Bazel, Docker, QNX
Thorsten Otremba
Last position:
Workstream Lead (WS) at Bank-Verlag GmbH
- Introduction of giro card with Visa Debit card payment function (Combocard) for Commerzbank
- Support for the Card Processing Team (card processing; Clearing & Settlement incl. Dispute Management teams) in project work
- Creation of requirements for the Clearing & Settlement team, Authorization team (AZ) and Card Production team (KP) as part of a requirements catalog
- Requirements engineering (requirements management) with business contact person
- Participation in workstream meetings between VISA Inc., SRC Security Research & Consulting GmbH, Commerzbank AG and consulting firms (PwC and Senacor Technologies AG)
- Sprint planning with Jira tickets of type Task and use of Confluence
- Creation and presentation of weekly status reports for the Clearing & Settlement, Dispute Management and Reporting & GUI workstreams
- Coordination with network and file transfer teams for connection tests of new interfaces, e.g. setup of host keys, use of VPN or sipnet connections
- Coordination of the delivery of test files, e.g. exchange rates (FX rates; TC 56 of VISA rates), VISA Debit and Credit transactions (format Base II) and EANSS/ISS Base II clearing files to the Debit Clearing System (DCS)
- Conducting coordination meetings on the use of Visanet Settlement Service (VSS) and PSD2 reports and payment traffic statistics (ZVS)
- Organizing workshops with FiServ (First Data) on Dispute Management and complaint handling
- Setup and maintenance of Open Point List (OPL) in Confluence
- Technologies/methods: Jira, Confluence, giro card, VISA Debit card, payments, Kanban board, BIN, routing, CIQ, VPAY, ScalaTest, Dispute Management
Michael Eilers
Last position:
Software Developer at Continental
- Supported a telematics component in the automotive sector with SELinux and open-source license management.
- Products: SELinux, iMX8, ScanCode.
- Skills: Linux, firmware development, Python.
Daniel Schäftner
Last position:
Embedded Software Engineer at Rawe Electronic GmbH / SCHELL
- Firmware low-level driver development for an advanced water tap with bluetooth on an EFR32BG module from Silicon Labs with Simplicity Studio
Matthias Wissen
Last position:
Embedded Software Developer at Schaffarzyk Hardware & Software
Development of the embedded firmware for a smart wearable to capture vital signs with smartphone connectivity:
- Architecture and implementation of the complete embedded firmware
- Connecting and processing various sensors for vital data collection
- Implementing BLE communication for the smartphone app
- Optimizing power consumption and battery life for wearable operation
- Technologies: BLE, Embedded C/C++, sensors, low-power design, Git, nRF52840, GCC, Azure
András Bognár
Last position:
Test Equipment Developer at Minebea Access Solutions
- Tested passenger car opening handle at system level integrating hardware, software and mechanics
- Built and provided complete test equipment for system testers using Arduino boards, Saleae Logic analyser, oscilloscope, multimeter, RLC meter, programmable power supplies and function generators
- Developed system testing concepts and constructed manual system test bench
- Supported system testers with hardware and software tools
- Products: BMW XNF, Rolls Royce, Audi eRing, JLR (Jaguar-Land-Rover)
Mohamed Hassan
Last position:
Machine Learning Engineer Intern at Kautex Textron
- Developed deep learning models for industrial shape optimization
- Built deployment pipelines for production-ready ML systems
Knud Werner
Last position:
Lead Programmer, Architect and Deputy Product Owner at Bundesagentur für Arbeit
- Lead programmer, architect and deputy product owner
- Completed transition from zPDV to STEP
- Ensured quality of C++ and Perl sources through automated and manual checks
- Supported resolution of incidents and errors in testing
- Implemented batch for supplementary assignment of payment run numbers
- Implemented batch for distribution of SGB 2 information to the central payment unit
- Supported replacement of Solaris with Linux
- Upgraded gcc from 7.4 to 9.3
- Programmatically generated Makefiles from Borland projects for builds
- Extended funding data with new attribute “internship travel cost indicator”
- Programmatically generated XSD and WSDL files from IDL definitions
- Represented the product owner when needed
- Implemented batch for one-time payment processing
- Developed generator for Liquibase files
- Implemented and maintained regular anonymization of production data
- Supported migration from SLES 12 to SLES 15
- Supported introduction of mutual TLS
- Implemented batch for sending deletion impulses to EDA BE
- Organized script directory structure
- Investigated potential introduction of String-Latin and implemented minimal solution
- Remediated security findings identified by CheckMarx
- Supported PAP recalculations and general change notices
- Converted ERP interfaces from SOAP to REST
- Planned technical and business topics such as register modernization, cash register security, training costs, four-eyes principle
Lili Troshina
Last position:
Growth Strategist at Self-employed
FemTech Germany - 1 project Euromonitor International - 11 ad-hoc projects for the global FMCG companies in 8 categories with the successful execution of Market Entry and Go-to-Market strategies in the Eastern European, Russian and CIS markets Radma Research - 1 project Freepeople.world 1 volunteer project Job for Arabists - 1 project Top Ceo Team - 1 digital transformation project for the biggest betting company in the Russian market
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Statistics of experts using GCC
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years
Position duration
2.5 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
95%
Master's degree or higher
77%
Doctorate
9%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, Russian
Speak two or more languages
96%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
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Average rates of experts in Germany using GCC
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About the technology
GNU compiler basics
GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection. It is used to compile C, C++, Fortran, and other low-level languages into fast native binaries. Companies rely on it for systems software, embedded builds, scientific code, and Linux distributions.
Where it fits
- C and C++ application builds
- Embedded and cross-compiled firmware
- Fortran workloads in engineering and science
- Build pipelines for Linux servers and appliances
GCC often sits at the core of a larger toolchain with binutils, make, CMake, and Ninja. Strong experts understand how compiler flags, standard libraries, and linker steps affect the final artifact.
What strong specialists do
A good GCC specialist reads compiler output quickly and turns warnings into concrete fixes. They know how to adjust optimization levels, debug symbols, sanitizers, and language standards without breaking the build. They also understand when a problem belongs to source code, flags, or the surrounding environment.
Common project work
- Fixing build failures after toolchain upgrades
- Setting up cross-compilers for ARM and other targets
- Tuning release builds for size, speed, or diagnostics
- Porting code between Linux distributions or hardware platforms
In Germany, GCC expertise is often useful in industrial software, automotive suppliers, research teams, and infrastructure projects that run on Linux. Remote work is common, but on-site collaboration can help when hardware access, lab setups, or release approvals are involved.
Signs you need help
If a project has warning floods, inconsistent results across machines, or fragile compiler flags, bring in a GCC expert. The same applies when a codebase must support several compiler versions or when build times and binary size matter. Experienced professionals make the toolchain stable instead of just making it pass once.
What to look for
The best GCC professionals can explain why a flag is needed, not just copy one from another project. They should be comfortable with optimization, static analysis, ABI compatibility, and debugging build systems. Good communication matters too, especially when teams need clear fixes that other specialists can maintain later.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about GCC, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
GCC is used to turn source code into native binaries for C, C++, Fortran, and related languages. Companies use it for Linux software, embedded firmware, scientific workloads, and system-level components where control over the build matters.
GCC and Clang are both widely used compilers, but they do not behave identically. GCC is often chosen for long-established Linux toolchains, broad language support, and build compatibility, while Clang is sometimes preferred for different diagnostics or project policies. A strong expert knows how to work with both when a project needs it.
A strong GCC specialist usually knows build systems like Make, CMake, or Ninja, plus linker behavior, libraries, and debugging tools. For cross-platform work, knowledge of binutils, shell scripting, and package or toolchain management is also valuable.
A simple compile issue may need only a focused GCC expert. Larger work, such as cross-compilation, ABI compatibility, or toolchain migration, needs someone who has solved similar problems before. The more the project depends on low-level behavior, the more experience matters.
Yes, much of GCC work can be done remotely because it usually starts with source code, build logs, and reproducible test cases. On-site work can help when the problem depends on specific hardware, lab equipment, or controlled release processes, which is common in some German industrial settings.
Look for build failures after a compiler upgrade, warnings that are hard to interpret, or binaries that behave differently across systems. If a project needs a stable Linux toolchain or cross-compilation setup, GCC support is often the fastest way to reduce risk.
A good GCC professional explains the root cause clearly and shows how the fix affects the toolchain, not just the current build. They should be able to discuss optimization, debug flags, standards mode, and linker output in plain language. Clean commit history and reproducible builds are strong signs of quality.
No, GCC supports more than C and C++. It is also widely used for Fortran and other front ends, depending on the project needs. That makes it useful in engineering, research, and legacy environments where several language families meet.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used GCC in their recent projects is 94 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 753 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used GCC in their recent projects, 95% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 77% hold at least a Master's degree, and 9% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used GCC in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used GCC in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Russian (30%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used GCC in their recent projects are Information Technology (71%), Manufacturing (67%), and Automotive (58%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used GCC in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (88%), and Quality Assurance (75%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used GCC
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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