GraphQL Experts in Austria
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Karl F.
Last position:
Managing Director at ONECEPT GmbH
Peter S.
Last position:
Lead Software Architect at Pritz IT GmbH
- Lead software architect in a greenfield MES project (Manufacturing Execution System / factory control system), responsible for architecture decisions, technology selection, and technical direction throughout the entire development lifecycle
- Designed and built the core framework from scratch, including several reusable Spring Boot starters (e.g., OPC-UA integration, messaging, security) that enable flexible composition of the individual system modules
- Introduced Keycloak as the central authentication and authorization system with SSO across all MES components
- Created and owns the full CI/CD pipeline covering Java, NPM and Docker – automating build, test, containerisation and deployment across all project components
- Set up the architecture documentation space in Confluence as the single source of truth for all architecture decisions, component designs, and integration patterns
- Defined and enforced naming conventions and coding standards to ensure consistency in the growing codebase
- Conducted regular code reviews for quality assurance, knowledge sharing, and adherence to architecture guidelines
- Created and maintained technology roadmaps to guide future development priorities and infrastructure investments
Tobias F.
Last position:
CTO & Founder at bitminds
Selected projects:
Kiosk platform – hospitality
- Led a 3-person team while hands-on architecting an edge computing infrastructure for over 15 self-service kiosks in Alpine hotels with unstable connectivity
- Designed a Nomad-based cluster with a WireGuard mesh network for fully automated OTA updates, even during local network outages and offline operation
- Integrated physical peripherals (hotel key card readers, thermal printers) into a containerized deployment pipeline
- Reduced on-site maintenance visits by ~40% through a resilient offline-first architecture and Prometheus-based hardware monitoring
- Tech: Nomad, Consul, WireGuard, NestJS, NextJS, Prometheus, Custom Hardware Provisioning
Multi-tenant SaaS platform – insurance claims processing
- Built and operated the Kubernetes infrastructure for a market-leading claims processing platform (acquired by an S&P 500 company) – with strict compliance and availability requirements
- Designed a multi-tenant EKS cluster with tenant isolation, enabling cost-effective single-instance hosting for multiple customers
- Implemented dynamic spot instance node pools, reducing infrastructure costs by ~20%
- Set up fully automated deployment pipelines (Terraform + GitHub Actions) for uninterrupted releases during business hours
- Tech: EKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, PHP, GraphQL
Legacy ERP integration – construction photo documentation
- Led a 2-person team in designing and implementing a real-time sync bridge between a legacy Microsoft Access ERP (without an API) and a modern mobile photo app for quality control on construction sites
- Developed a PostgreSQL pipeline with real-time listeners that extract data from 1990s Access databases – without disrupting existing workflows
- Built a resilient upload architecture with a circuit breaker pattern for unstable site connections (S3, NFS, Synology NAS)
- Saved each project manager 2–4 hours per week through automated photo sync instead of manual USB/SD card transfers
- Tech: NestJS, PostgreSQL, React Native (Expo), S3, Synology API, offline-first architecture
David M.
Last position:
Senior Technical Consultant at BMW Group
- Architecture and development of enterprise React 19 based documentation platform for automotive software systems
- Full-stack implementation of visualization tools & interactive diagram viewers
- Performance optimization initiatives including virtual rendering for 10,000+ node trees and Web Worker-based search functionality
- Designed and implemented modular plugin architecture enabling extensible document rendering system
- Technical consultation on Git-based architecture-as-code workflows and modern design patterns
- Ownership of critical features from design through deployment, collaborating with cross-functional enterprise teams
Maximilian G.
Last position:
Solo Developer / Founder at InvAPI
- Privacy-first, stateless e-invoice API providing AI-powered extraction, bidirectional format conversion (UBL/CII/ZUGFeRD), batch processing, and validation for German/Austrian e-invoice compliance
- Technologies: Nuxt 4, Vue 3, Nitro, TypeScript, Cloudflare (D1, R2), Stripe, OAuth, AI/LLM integration
David L.
Last position:
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Fractual
- Built and maintained a full-featured React Native mobile app and companion web portal supporting multi-role access and real-time collaboration for service teams.
- Developed a robust NestJS backend using TypeScript, adhering to scalable microservices patterns to support a dynamic task management system.
- Designed and optimized PostgreSQL schemas, using advanced indexing and normalized data models to support patient tracking, tasks, and outcome reporting.
- Integrated Socket.IO to support real-time team communication, task status updates, and instant notifications across mobile and web platforms.
- Developed secure authentication workflows using AWS Cognito, including multi-role login, token refresh, and session timeout handling.
- Leveraged AWS S3 for secure document uploads (patient records, resource materials) with signed URLs and access control policies.
- Connected AWS SNS and SES to automate notifications for escalations, missed follow-ups, and appointment reminders.
- Engineered an admin analytics dashboard using React + Zustand for tracking user activity, case completion rates, and compliance metrics.
- Designed and implemented AI-driven features for task prioritization and patient risk classification using external API integrations.
- Established a robust CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and Docker, achieving automated testing, linting, and environment-based deployments.
- Followed Agile ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retros) while collaborating with QA, BAs, and PMs to deliver high-velocity features.
- Led data protection efforts ensuring full GDPR compliance, including encrypted storage, session control, and user-consent management.
- Delivered a fully responsive UI using DaisyUI-style components for mobile and tablet-first designs, achieving high Lighthouse scores.
- Reduced support tickets by 40% by implementing detailed audit logging and a self-service helpdesk system in the admin interface.
Nedim K.
Last position:
Manual Tester and Test Automation Engineer at IT-Systemhaus der Bundesagentur für Arbeit
- Design appropriate test cases to verify the GUI in Azure Test Plans
- Creation and execution of manual test cases
- Test design for user stories to be implemented in the current sprint
- Analysis of deviations/bugs based on log files and Kibana dashboards
- Creation of bug tickets with error description, screenshots, and short videos
- Prioritization of open bug tickets together with the PO
- Retest of bugs and hotfixes
- Execution of manual tests to ensure a 100% fulfillment rate of all functional requirements
- Selection, installation, and maintenance of a test automation tool (Selenium)
- Implementation of automated regression tests
- Continuous expansion of the object repository and adaptation of automated test cases (acceptance, integration, and system tests)
- Creation of test logs before each sprint change
Patrick H.
Last position:
Lead Frontend Developer at DB Cargo
- customer portal for different user groups
- scrum team member
- planning & implementation of single page application
- planning & connection to REST API backend
- Stack: azure devops, vite, typescript, react, react-router, react-query, react-table, db-ui
Kurt B.
Last position:
Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Devs, ~10 Teams, per team: 1 PO, 1 Scrum Master, 1 UX, 1 Developer, 1 Tester
- .net core 8, 9, C#
- Microservices, Clean-Architecture, MediatR, CQRS
- GraphQL, REST, SDL
- Azure DevOps, CI / CD-pipelines, Azure-Service Bus, Rabbit-MQ, Kafka, Azure App Configuration, Azure KeyVault, Azure Kubernetes AKS
- Splunk, dashboards, custom metrics, Elastic-Search, Kibana (ELK)
- Azure SQL-Databases, Azure Cosmos DB
- Architecture decisions, event governance, COP (Backend, DevOps, FrontEnt, Test Automations)
- AI, Copilot, creating test templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated unit and integration tests
- Automated E2E tests, Playwright test automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Tracking of shipments
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx million messages per month per service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into Azure Data Lake
Jasmin G.
Last position:
Cloud Developer & DevOps Engineer at Energy Utility Company
- Further developing microservices (Go, .NET)
- Expanding gRPC APIs
- Maintaining Kubernetes clusters (AKS)
- Managing the system landscape
- Migrating Azure App Services to Kubernetes
- Creating and extending Azure Pipelines
- Developing a Go microservice to receive and send events from Azure Service Bus
- Integrating KEDA for autoscaling
- Technologies used: Go, .NET, Azure Portal, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, MongoDB, Jaeger, Grafana
Dominic W.
Last position:
Engineer / Architect at Freelancer
- Magento 2
- Symfony
- Various technologies
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Statistics of experts using GraphQL
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
16 years
Position duration
2.2 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
33%
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
German, English, Bosnian
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Austria 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 Austria using GraphQL
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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
GraphQL 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 (91%)
- Banking and Finance (55%)
- Automotive (36%)
- Transportation (36%)
- Retail (36%)
- Media and Entertainment (27%)
- Utilities (27%)
- Construction (18%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What GraphQL does
GraphQL is an API query language and runtime that lets clients request the data they need through a typed schema. It can combine information from databases, services and external APIs behind one endpoint. Companies use it for web apps, mobile products, internal tools and data-rich customer experiences.
Where it fits
- Product platforms that serve web and mobile clients
- API layers joining microservices and legacy systems
- Content, commerce and customer portals
- Real-time interfaces using subscriptions
- Federated data services across business domains
GraphQL is useful when several clients need different views of the same data. It reduces tightly coupled endpoint design, while keeping the underlying services independent.
Ecosystem and tooling
The ecosystem includes Apollo Server, Apollo Client, GraphQL Yoga, Relay and Hasura. Strong implementations also use schema registries, code generation, persisted queries and observability tools. Common languages include TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go and .NET.
Experts often work with REST APIs, OpenAPI, databases, message brokers and cloud services alongside GraphQL. Federation and schema stitching require careful ownership rules and clear service boundaries.
When expertise matters
- A growing API has too many client-specific endpoints
- Mobile and web teams need different data shapes
- Several services must appear as one coherent API
- Schema changes create compatibility or governance risks
- Query performance and authorization need closer control
Freelance expertise is valuable during a new API design, a migration from REST, a federation rollout or a performance review. Specialists can also establish conventions that internal teams can maintain after delivery.
What professionals deliver
A project may require a schema, resolvers, data loaders, authentication rules, tests and deployment configuration. Professionals define types and relationships, connect resolvers to reliable data sources and prevent inefficient query patterns such as uncontrolled nesting or repeated fetching.
They also document the contract, configure caching and tracing, and introduce checks for breaking schema changes. In Austria, remote collaboration can work well when documentation, reviews and working language expectations are agreed early; on-site sessions may help with complex domain alignment.
How to assess quality
Look for professionals who can explain why GraphQL is appropriate for the product rather than treating it as a default replacement for REST. Strong specialists discuss schema ownership, nullability, authorization, pagination, caching, error handling and query cost controls in concrete terms.
Ask for examples of production APIs and the trade-offs behind their design. A reliable approach includes contract testing, observability, secure resolver logic and a clear plan for operating the API after launch.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about GraphQL.
GraphQL is used to expose structured data through a typed API that lets each client request an appropriate response shape. It is common in web and mobile products, content systems, commerce applications, internal platforms and services that combine multiple data sources.
GraphQL gives clients a schema-based query interface, while REST commonly exposes separate resources and endpoints. GraphQL can reduce over-fetching and endpoint proliferation, but REST may be simpler for straightforward services, public caching or teams already organized around resource APIs.
A strong GraphQL specialist usually understands REST, HTTP, authentication, authorization, databases and service integration. Experience with Apollo, TypeScript, schema federation, caching, automated testing and observability is also useful when the API supports production systems.
The right level of GraphQL experience depends on the scope and risk of the system. A small internal API may need schema and resolver skills, while federation, high traffic, complex authorization or a REST migration calls for proven experience with architecture and operations.
Yes, GraphQL work is often suitable for remote collaboration because schemas, pull requests, tests and API documentation provide clear review points. Teams in Austria should still agree on working language, meeting overlap, domain workshops and access to development environments before the engagement starts.
Ask how the GraphQL freelancer handles schema ownership, authorization, pagination, query limits and changes that could break clients. Request a clear delivery plan covering integration, testing, monitoring, documentation and knowledge transfer.
Apollo is a set of tools and services built around GraphQL, not a replacement for the specification itself. Apollo Client and Apollo Server can speed up implementation, but teams can also use alternatives such as GraphQL Yoga, Relay or Hasura.
A quality GraphQL implementation has a coherent schema, predictable errors, secure resolvers and controlled query cost. It should also include meaningful tests, tracing, documentation, performance checks and a clear process for evolving the contract without surprising clients.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used GraphQL in their recent projects is 99 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 790 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used GraphQL in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 33% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used GraphQL in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used GraphQL in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Bosnian (9%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used GraphQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (91%), Banking and Finance (55%), and Automotive (36%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used GraphQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (91%), and Operations (36%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used GraphQL
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.
Countries:
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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