GraphQL Experts in Austria
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Karl F.
Last position:
Managing Director at ONECEPT GmbH
Tobias F.
Last position:
CTO & Founder at bitminds
Selected projects:
Kiosk platform – Hospitality
- Led a 3-person team while taking a hands-on role in designing 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 card readers, thermal printers) into a containerized deployment pipeline
- Reduced on-site maintenance visits by ∼40% with 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 management
- Built and operated the Kubernetes infrastructure for a market-leading claims management 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
- Introduced dynamic spot instance node pools, reducing infrastructure costs by ∼20%
- Built 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 building a real-time sync bridge between a legacy Microsoft Access ERP system (without an API) and a modern mobile photo app for construction quality control
- Developed a PostgreSQL pipeline with real-time listeners that extracts data from 1990s Access databases without disrupting existing workflows
- Built a resilient upload architecture using the circuit breaker pattern for unstable construction site connections (S3, NFS, Synology NAS)
- Saved 2–4 hours per week for each project manager through automated photo sync instead of manual USB/SD card transfers
- Tech: NestJS, PostgreSQL, React Native (Expo), S3, Synology API, Offline-First Architecture
Kurt B.
Last position:
Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at Fa. RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Developers, ~10 Teams, per Team: 1 PO, 1 ScrumMaster, 1UX, 1 Developers, 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, FrontEnd, Test Automation)
- AI, Copilot, creating Test Templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated Unit and Integration Tests
- Automated E2E Tests, Playwright Test Automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Shipment tracking
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx e6 messages / month / service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into AzureDataLake
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.
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
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
André F.
Last position:
Magento 2 and Hyvä at Kaufhaus der Berge
Long-term technical support for the store for ten years, remotely.
- Integration of the Tyrolean ERP system MGM with Magento 2
- Migration of the store from Luma to Hyvä
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
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
18 years
Position duration
2.7 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Retail
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
29%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, Bosnian
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Austria 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 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 29 Oct 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 (92%)
- Banking and Finance (50%)
- Retail (42%)
- Automotive (33%)
- Transportation (33%)
- Media and Entertainment (33%)
- Utilities (25%)
- Construction (17%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Flexible API design
GraphQL is a query language and runtime for APIs. It lets a client request the fields it needs through a strongly typed schema instead of relying on multiple fixed REST responses. Teams use it to serve web apps, mobile products, partner portals and connected business interfaces from one coherent data layer.
Schemas and resolvers
A GraphQL project starts with a schema that defines types, queries, mutations and subscriptions. Resolvers connect that contract to databases, services and external systems. Strong professionals model relationships carefully, handle validation and errors, and keep schema changes understandable as products evolve.
Ecosystem and tooling
The wider ecosystem includes Apollo Server, Apollo Client, GraphQL Yoga, Relay, Hasura and code-generation tools. Practical expertise often covers:
- Schema-first design and federation
- Resolver performance, batching and caching
- Authentication, authorization and input validation
- TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Python or Go integrations
- Contract testing, introspection and API documentation
Where companies use it
GraphQL fits products that combine data from many services or need different views for several clients. It appears in commerce catalogues, media platforms, financial applications, healthcare products, SaaS interfaces and internal operations tools. In Austria, specialists may support distributed teams serving local and international users, remotely or alongside an on-site product group.
When freelance expertise helps
Companies often bring in freelance specialists during an API migration, a new product launch or a move from a monolith to services. External expertise is also useful when schemas have become inconsistent, resolver response times are difficult to trace or frontend teams need a stable contract. Clear scope, repository access and agreed ownership make remote collaboration effective; German or English language skills may matter depending on the team.
What strong professionals deliver
The best GraphQL professionals connect API design with system constraints. They understand database access patterns, distributed systems, security and client behavior rather than treating the schema as a thin layer over existing endpoints. Look for evidence of clear deprecation plans, predictable error handling, observability, query-cost controls and tests that protect the contract. They should also explain when REST, gRPC or a simpler service boundary is the better choice.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about GraphQL.
GraphQL is used to expose data through a typed API that lets clients request exactly what they need. Companies use it for web and mobile applications, product catalogues, dashboards, partner integrations and systems that combine several backend sources.
GraphQL gives clients a schema and flexible queries, while REST commonly exposes multiple resource endpoints with server-defined response shapes. GraphQL can reduce over-fetching and coordinate related data, but REST may be simpler for straightforward services, public caching or teams with established REST conventions.
GraphQL is usually well suited to client-facing APIs where different screens need different data selections. gRPC is often a stronger choice for tightly controlled service-to-service communication, efficient internal calls and contracts built around procedure-style operations.
A strong GraphQL specialist should understand API security, database access, caching, observability and automated testing. Useful related knowledge includes TypeScript or another backend language, Apollo tooling, SQL or NoSQL systems, authentication and frontend data-fetching patterns.
GraphQL project needs vary with scope rather than a fixed tenure requirement. A small schema over one service may need focused API expertise, while federation, subscriptions, legacy integration or high query volume calls for a professional who has handled those conditions in production.
GraphQL work is often suitable for remote collaboration because schemas, code review, tests and API documentation can be shared online. For teams in Austria, agree on working hours, documentation standards and whether communication should be in German, English or both before the engagement starts.
Assess whether GraphQL has a clear schema, consistent naming, useful error responses and a safe deprecation process. Also review resolver performance, authorization rules, query-depth or cost limits, monitoring and tests that verify both the contract and important data behavior.
Before joining a GraphQL project, clarify the schema ownership, client types, backend sources, authentication model and expected delivery boundaries. Ask whether the work involves a new API, a REST migration, federation or performance repair, and confirm how changes are reviewed and released.
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 796 € 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 29% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used GraphQL in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used GraphQL in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Bosnian (8%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used GraphQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Banking and Finance (50%), and Retail (42%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used GraphQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (92%), and Operations (33%).
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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