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Meet FRATCH Experts in Berlin, who have recently used GraphQL
Sascha B.
Last position:
Web Developer at GxPlex
- Built a customized MediaWiki instance, including installation, MySQL database, SSL, and automatic backups
- Set up user roles (Admin, Mod, Verified, User) and a permissions system
- FlaggedRevisions for editorial review workflows · Commenting and rating extensions
Chintan P.
Last position:
Product Owner and Technical Product Lead at Sustamize GmbH
LLM-based features for automated CO₂e data extraction from unstructured documents (70% reduction)
Agentic AI pipeline for automated Scope 3 emissions calculations with 150.000+ validated data records
Intelligent API workflows for real-time carbon footprint calculations in ERP and ESG systems
ML algorithms for predicting emissions hotspots and optimizing product design
Automated data validation pipelines with NLP for quality assurance of CO₂e datasets
Led a 15-person cross-functional team in developing 10+ AI features
Strategic product planning and AI roadmap with 35% shorter time-to-market
Stakeholder management with DAX companies (40% higher satisfaction, 95% retention)
On-time project delivery with 95% budget adherence through data-driven backlog management
Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban) with continuous AI/ML integration (25% increase in team velocity)
Product-market fit for AI features through A/B testing and analytics (60% higher adoption rate)
Hubertus S.
Last position:
Senior Product Manager AI
Workflow-automation SaaS for operations teams (Berlin, 120 people); full-time freelance engagement reporting to the CEO: an initial 12-month interim mandate, extended twice through the AI build-out; owned product for one squad and coached the other product managers on process.
- Led generative AI (LLM) integration into the core product: from LLM-powered steps to natural-language workflow authoring and step-level automation suggestions, plus AI-managed dynamic workflows, shipped behind eval gates with human-in-the-loop fallbacks: AI-drafted workflows grew to 31% of all new workflows, and median time-to-first-workflow fell from 3 days to 4 hours.
- Packaged the AI capabilities as a usage-based add-on priced on executed automation steps, working with sales and marketing on positioning: ~€800K added ARR in the first year, and adopting accounts churned 1.8 pp less.
- Owned the roadmap end to end: replaced feature-request-driven quarterly planning with an outcome-based rolling roadmap built on quarterly bets and explicit kill criteria, presented monthly to the executive team and quarterly to the board.
- Rebuilt the product-management operating system: weekly customer-discovery cadence incl. workshop facilitation, RFC/decision-doc reviews and a single quarterly metrics narrative; coached four product managers, one promoted to senior during the engagement.
- Closed the engagement as scoped: hired and onboarded the permanent VP Product, handed over the process playbook and roadmap, and exited on schedule in June 2026.
Alexandr K.
Last position:
Technical Co-Founder at Dealyv
- Joined the initial development team and helped transform an n8n prototype into a production-ready 0-to-1 product in a fast-paced environment.
- Owned delivery across CRM and Twilio integrations, customer communication workflows, and administrative interfaces.
- Collaborated on AI evaluation, microservice architecture, and other cross-functional product and engineering topics.
- Supported the CEO across VC communications, customer acquisition, product positioning, onboarding, documentation, pricing, and sales.
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.
Benjamin F.
Last position:
Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master & Agile Coach at Freelance
Freelance product owner, scrum master and agile coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries.
Last projects:
Adevinta: Technical Project Manager responsible for coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform.
Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company): Product Manager implementing and verifying on the business side a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers.
Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf: Product Manager Mobile advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS apps.
Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company), Berlin: Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering department together with the Director Engineering.
Responsibilities at Visual Meta GmbH:
Define and deliver a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission connecting to existing company strategy and strategies from adjacent departments.
Refine an existing OKR process together with OKR master and directors of other departments to increase focus and outcome.
Support the Director Engineering in creating a platform transformation strategy to transform a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establish a domain-based organizational setup.
Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 head-level colleagues and 17 operational team members from product management, data and UX/UI design.
Key achievements at Visual Meta GmbH:
Defined and delivered a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission.
Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen.
Created a career path framework for the product team defining roles and responsibilities from junior to head level positions.
Santhosh K.
Last position:
Freelance Software Engineer at Zalando SE
- Drive migration of enterprise authorization platform from Styra DAS to open-source OPA via Skipper (Zalando's Golang-based ingress proxy) integration
- Optimise k8s resources and integrate native Prometheus metrics with OPA
- Migrate from internal monitoring solution to Prometheus CRs + Dash0
Tech Stack: Java/Kotlin, Golang, Python, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenTofu, Prometheus, Grafana
Maciej R.
Last position:
Full Stack Developer (Freelancer) at Runbuggy
- Led development of RunBot AI assistant autonomously using LLM-powered workflow automation (React, TypeScript, Java, MongoDB, NATS)
- Architected TMS platform providing unified transportation management and real-time logistics visibility with AI processing pipelines
- Designed event-driven microservices architecture supporting marketplace
- Drove architectural decisions and technical leadership across full-stack platform development
Imran A.
Last position:
Software Engineer II at LivePerson Germany GmbH
- Led development of 15+ microservices (Java 17, Spring Boot) driving customer interactions; migrated from on-prem to GCP Kubernetes, improving scalability and reducing infra cost by 20%.
- Optimized user services with CouchDB caching and API refactoring, cutting response times by 35% and enhancing customer experience.
- Implemented canary deployments, FluxCD GitOps, and CI/CD optimizations in GitLab, reducing release lead time by 25% and enabling zero-downtime rollouts.
- Set up Grafana health checks and Anodot alerts for latency, error, and throughput monitoring, reducing MTTR by 40%.
- Built secure APIs using OAuth2, DPoP, and Gatekeeper, integrated REST and GraphQL, and achieved 90%+ test coverage with unit and E2E tests.
- Mentored junior developers, promoted Agile best practices, and collaborated cross-functionally to deliver high-impact, reliable customer-facing features.
Nada S.
Last position:
Freelance Senior Frontend Engineer at Self-Employed
- Senior software engineer focused on React, TypeScript and AI-assisted product workflows
- Build frontend systems for complex SaaS products, internal tools and operational workflows
- Recent work includes AI evaluation tooling, support reliability analysis and developer-focused QA systems
- Available for freelance and contract engagements, especially remote-first projects
Fernando C.
Last position:
Senior Front-End Developer at Moss
- Moss is a spend-management platform for SMEs that bundles corporate cards, web-based applications and reimbursements, AP/procurement and advanced accounting in one place.
- Splits time across Accounting, Spending and Growth tribes, handling requirements gathering, public product design, coding, testing, debugging and internal apps.
- Participates in development and maintenance of the design system/UI kit and supports tooling, documentation and developer experience.
- Builds form-heavy UIs, drawer-based editing, high-density/resilient tables with server-side filters, pagination, column configurations, CSV/Excel export and bulk operations, all wired for permissions and auditability.
- Works with complex cross-entity relationships without a single-schema solution.
- Uses React, Redux Toolkit, styled-components, react-hook-form, React PDF, Vite, Lokalise, React Testing Library and Playwright.
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
Can K.
Last position:
DevOps Specialist at Eviden Germany GmbH
Manage the development release and update process for a digitized nationwide trade register project "AuRegis".
Support software in Kubernetes/OpenShift environments, configure management with Kustomize, and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins/GitLab, SonarQube, ArgoCD, and Azure.
Oversee system release of microservice architecture.
Build the CI/CD stack from scratch with GitLab CI, integrating integration tests, dependency checks, and security measures.
Automate deployment onto OpenShift using Kustomize.
Set up infrastructure components for development, code review, and code quality analysis including SonarQube.
Integrate GitOps tools such as Kustomize and ArgoCD, using both Azure and private cloud for sensitive data handling.
Develop Python scripts in Jenkins for cryptostore configuration and system packaging of products and microservices into deployable units.
Automate delivery to customers and deployment on test systems.
Create Kustomize manifests for microservices and develop the related automation, treating documentation as code for clarity and reproducibility.
Serve as technical advisor for the project's first go-live and oversee further deployments as technical rollout manager.
Alois R.
Last position:
Senior Fullstack Developer at brandung GmbH
- Opt-in RAG extension over tenant-owned data sources (SharePoint, Confluence) on existing multi-tenant enterprise AI platform
- Architecture: ADRs, solution evaluations, permission strategy, cost modeling
- End-to-end SharePoint and Confluence connectors: OAuth consent flows, token refresh, metadata sync, search integration
- Permission resolution: ACL indexing at ingestion and query-time verification (document-level security)
- Elasticsearch hybrid search (semantic + keyword) with RRF scoring
- RAG chat with context injection and source citations
- Stack: Elastic Cloud, Elasticsearch, Docker, Northflank, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Prisma, Microsoft Graph API, Atlassian REST API, OAuth 2.0
Mario J.
Last position:
Architect / Developer at handyhase
- Overhaul of the entire design and implementation of new UI/UX aspects using React
- Planning of the software architecture and structuring of the project for long-term scalability using Git for version control
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Statistics of experts using GraphQL
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
15 years (Germany: 16 years)

Position duration
1.9 years (Germany: 2.7 years)

Positions per freelancer
9 (Germany: 11)

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries
Information Technology, Retail, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
93% (Germany: 89%)
Master's degree or higher
38% (Germany: 44%)
Doctorate
2% (Germany: 3%)

Certifications per freelancer
1 (Germany: 2)

Most common languages
English, German, Spanish

Speak two or more languages
98% (Germany: 99%)
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 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 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 (100%)
- Retail (49%)
- Banking and Finance (38%)
- Media and Entertainment (38%)
- Automotive (34%)
- Education (34%)
- Healthcare (30%)
- Manufacturing (30%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
API foundations
GraphQL is an API query language and runtime that lets clients request the fields they need from a typed schema. It commonly serves web and mobile products that combine data from several services behind one endpoint. Unlike a fixed REST response, GraphQL gives frontend teams more control over data selection while keeping the contract explicit.
Schemas and resolvers
A strong GraphQL implementation starts with clear types, queries, mutations and input validation. Specialists connect resolvers to databases, REST services, event systems and internal APIs without hiding important performance or security risks. They also define pagination, error handling, authorization rules and deprecation paths that keep the schema usable as products change.
Ecosystem and tooling
GraphQL work often spans a broad set of tools and adjacent skills:
- Apollo Client, Apollo Server and Apollo Federation
- GraphQL Yoga, Relay, Hasura or Graphene
- TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Python or Go
- Schema registries, introspection controls and contract checks
- Automated tests, tracing, caching and observability
Where it fits
Companies use GraphQL for product interfaces, content platforms, marketplaces, dashboards and mobile backends. It is useful when several frontends need different views of the same domain or when a product must combine services behind a consistent API. Berlin teams may also bring in remote specialists to support distributed product groups, with English commonly used for technical collaboration.
When to bring in expertise
Freelance support is valuable when an API needs a new schema, a REST estate is being unified, or a federation rollout must be made safe. Typical assignments include:
- Designing a schema from domain and frontend requirements
- Migrating clients from REST or stitching existing services
- Improving resolver performance and preventing N+1 queries
- Adding authentication, authorization and field-level controls
- Establishing testing, documentation and release workflows
What good looks like
Experienced professionals connect API design with the product’s data model and operating constraints. They ask which clients consume each field, measure resolver behavior under realistic load and make caching decisions deliberately. They can explain when GraphQL is the wrong fit, communicate schema changes clearly and leave behind tests, documentation and maintainable ownership practices.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around GraphQL.
GraphQL is used to build APIs where clients request precise data through a typed schema. It is common in web and mobile products, content systems, commerce experiences and applications that aggregate several backend services.
Compared with GraphQL, REST typically exposes multiple resource-oriented endpoints with predefined response shapes. GraphQL can reduce over-fetching and combine related data in one request, but it adds schema, resolver, caching and query-governance responsibilities.
A strong GraphQL specialist should understand API design, data modeling, authentication and authorization. Useful adjacent skills include TypeScript or another backend language, SQL, REST integration, automated testing, observability and frontend data clients such as Apollo Client or Relay.
The right level depends on the scope rather than a fixed number of years. A small schema may need focused API experience, while federation, high-traffic resolvers or a migration from REST calls for proven skills in distributed systems, performance analysis and schema governance.
GraphQL work is well suited to remote collaboration because schemas, code reviews, tests and API documentation can be shared online. Teams in Berlin should agree on communication routines, working hours, documentation standards and whether any workshops or stakeholder sessions require on-site attendance.
GraphQL may be unnecessary for a small, stable API with simple consumers and straightforward caching needs. It can also be a poor fit when clients should not control queries, when a public contract must remain highly constrained, or when the team cannot maintain schema and resolver governance.
Review the schema for clear naming, useful boundaries, consistent nullability and safe evolution rules. For GraphQL, also inspect resolver tests, authorization coverage, query limits, observability, N+1 protection and how the implementation handles errors and partial responses.
Before taking on GraphQL work, clarify the existing schema, client applications, data sources and delivery goals. Ask about ownership, deployment, authentication, expected query complexity, federation plans, production incidents and how success will be evaluated.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used GraphQL in their recent projects is 87 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 694 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used GraphQL in their recent projects, 93% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 38% hold at least a Master's degree, and 2% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used GraphQL in their recent projects have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used GraphQL in their recent projects are English (100%), German (96%), and Spanish (13%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used GraphQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Retail (49%), and Banking and Finance (38%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used GraphQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (96%), and Project Management (43%).
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