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IBM Db2 Experts in Munich

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Philipp Grunert

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Machine Learning & Data Engineer

München
Philipp Grunert

Last position:

Data Scientist & ML Engineer at Data-Science Factory GmbH

  • Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
  • Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
  • Development of LLM and NLP models
  • Creation of interactive reports
  • Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects
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Tezcan Dilshener

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Solution Architect / Project Manager

München
Tezcan Dilshener

Last position:

Solution Architect / Project Manager at German Football Association

  • Overall responsibility for the project lifecycle from scope definition to completion
  • Close collaboration with platform teams, IT leaders, and external service providers
  • Application of SAFe principles and structured sprint work
  • Creation of a migration roadmap with clear milestones
  • Monitoring of the lifecycle: onboarding, repository migration, replication of permissions, and system tests
  • Visualization of the architecture with PlantUML and Gliffy as well as documentation in Confluence
  • Regular status reports and running knowledge transfer sessions
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Birgit Stünkel

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Business Analyst, Requirements Engineer

München
Birgit Stünkel

Last position:

Business Analysis, Requirements Engineer at BMW

Refinement of epics and user stories to achieve a higher degree of automation in CRM usage. Testing of new Discountsystem

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Rahul Joshi

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Hybris Consultant

Eichenau
Rahul Joshi

Last position:

Hybris Consultant at Bosch Digital

  • Implement Hybris Commerce projects for customer.
  • Provide technical implementation of Developer and Integrator portal using Hybris solution.
  • Integration with Billing and Payment systems.
  • Technical ownership of the solution.
  • Introduce best practices in Hybris solution and Java technologies.
  • Provide release support on AWS environments.
  • Technical focal point for sales and engineering teams.
  • Supporting engineering team to scope the requirements and in architecting & designing the solutions.
  • Proliferate best practices from one project to others, Knowledge management.
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Serge Kalinin

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MLOps (machine learning operations)

Munich
Serge Kalinin

Last position:

MLOps (machine learning operations) at REWE Digital GmbH

  • It is like a startup within REWE, where we have to build a new forecasting system on Google Cloud Platform from the scratch. Although, officially my role is called MLOps, my actual tasks also include development of data processing pipelines (data engineering) and data scientists tasks such as feature engineering and model trainings.
  • GCP: Terraform (tofu), Vertex AI (Kubeflow), Cloud Run, IAM, Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Artifact Registry
  • Data engineering: Snowflake as the main data warehouse, Terraform, DBT for data model implementations
  • CI/CD: GitLab. We have built a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments of new releases up to production environment
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Sven Hummel

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Process Architect (Symbio, Signavio)

Munich
Sven Hummel

Last position:

Process Architect (Symbio, Signavio) at IT service provider for an international premium automaker

  • Analyzing, aligning and modeling business processes (BPMN 2.0) for the 'The New Retail' program in the areas of invoicing, tax, customs and accounting
  • Tracking user stories and their impact on processes
  • Point of contact for preparing the tool migration from Symbio to Signavio for the mentioned areas
  • Power user after the introduction of Signavio, point of contact and coach for other process modelers
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Carsten Büche

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Test engineer

Markt Schwaben
Carsten Büche

Last position:

Test engineer at DAT (Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH)

  • Conducted manual testing for claims creation, forwarding, repair cost calculation, parts selection and logging on the Gold.dat.de platform
  • Automated key processes using ASKUI, including login, claim creation, calculations and parts selection
  • Simulated user interactions (e.g., drag-and-drop) with ASKUI
  • Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for early error detection
  • Executed over 50 test scenarios and identified critical defects
  • Reduced test time by 50% through automation
  • Improved platform quality and user experience
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Antonio Disarò

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IT Consultant

Munich
Antonio Disarò

Last position:

Agile Project Manager at Openry GmbH

End Customer: Openry GmbH

E-commerce platform to globally commercialize high-quality Italian artistic productions. Several European shops are already operational and Asian markets soon coming up. My role as Agile Project Manager is to lead the complete team on both the customer and technical side (offshore) including strong strategic consulting, in a continuous delivery approach. As project in a small enterprise, the budget management aspects are particularly challenging, in a quest to deliver the maximum business value with minimal overheads. Technologies: Magento 2, M2E Pro, Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP (LAMP), Stripe

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Norbert Gunia

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Support for implementing the Pimcore CMS as well as support assistance and partner management

Vaterstetten
Norbert Gunia

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Support for implementing the Pimcore CMS as well as support assistance and partner management at Akademisch Arbeitsgemeinschaft GmbH

  • Support for implementing the Pimcore CMS, support assistance, and partner management for the existing application landscape.
  • Know-how transfer to the existing application landscape.
  • Advising stakeholders on the new implementation.
  • Support in data modeling for Pimcore.
  • Designing and overseeing data migrations from Salesforce to Pimcore using ESB.
  • Creating user stories.
  • 3rd level support for business-critical processes.
  • Technologies: Salesforce Marketing, Sales, and Service Cloud; Talend ESB; Pimcore; Shopware; ERP system Move; DB2; MySQL; MS Office; MS Visio; Jira; Confluence.
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Muharrem Saglam

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Technical Project Management (Porsche Project)

München
Muharrem Saglam

Last position:

General Manager at REPSEM/REPKON-Energetic (Mechanical Engineering)

REPSEM/REPKON-Energetic (Mechanical Engineering) – General Manager. Start-up company. Setting up the company and its structure. Creating processes, preparing document templates, planning workflows, hiring employees to meet company goals. Training employees and introducing them to the first company project. Project acquisition, meetings about projects with companies. Expanding company goals and strategy. Visiting companies for partnerships. Leading the first company project together with the PM.

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Helgo Göring-Drewes

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Migration to HANA BP

Bergkirchen
Helgo Göring-Drewes

Last position:

Migration to HANA BP at Packaging Industry

  • Migration to HANA BP.
  • MDM-Team.
  • Master-data-management.
  • System landscape: SAP ECC to S4-HANA.
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Kerstin Burgen

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Reporting and analytics for HR

Grünwald
Kerstin Burgen

Last position:

Reporting and analytics for HR at Apobank

  • Designing and implementing an interactive evaluation system for top executives to rate core competencies such as goal orientation, team culture, and strategic alignment.
  • Integrating control mechanisms to enforce feedback limits and store evaluations in a central system to ensure data integrity.
  • Optimizing data processing for personnel development by automating the merging of various information sources for form letters.
  • Implementing technical data preparation and analysis for the annual compensation comparison in the financial sector.
  • Developing automated processes for data preparation in Excel using Power Query, ensuring data integrity and anonymization according to data protection requirements.
  • Automating personnel cost analysis by developing a solution to process data from the Paisy system into an SAP-compatible Excel file.
  • Creating test cases, user documentation, and test plans for all developed systems.
  • Technologies: Power Query, MS Office 2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Paisy, SAP, VBA.
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David Cole

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Scrum Master, Agile Coach

Grasbrunn
David Cole

Last position:

Scrum Master, Agile Coach at Steadforce

  • Agile coaching at BMW – 8 coaching projects

  • Advised BMW department on introducing agile software development

  • Coaching product owners, Scrum Masters, managers and teams

  • Trainer for product owner workshops

  • Consulting firm project (Jan 2017 to present): Steadforce was the main partner in developing products that consultants used on client sites

  • As Scrum Master, supported scaling the project from six developers to three distributed Scrum teams with developers in Germany, Poland, Romania and Ukraine as well as stakeholders in Germany, US and India

  • Agile values evangelist

  • Organizing Scrum meetings

  • Facilitating retrospectives

  • Co-organizing team workshops

  • Working on code quality and test coverage for almost daily releases

  • UMS at BMW (Sept 2016 to present): Scrum Master for a team of 3 software developers

  • Organizing Scrum meetings and collaborating in Jira with the product owner at the client for agile fixed-price billing (payment based on t-shirt sizing)

  • Steadforce Campus: Redefining software development processes at Steadforce with a focus on clean code, code reviews and Scrum

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Christian Stellwag

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Senior Java Developer

München
Christian Stellwag

Last position:

Senior Java Developer at Freelance

  • Numerous projects as a Senior Java Developer or Team Lead in the technical domain, banking sector, public sector, etc. Please ask for a detailed project list. My contact: office(at)stellwag.it

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Statistics of experts using IBM Db2

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

30 years (Germany: 27 years)

Position duration

2.5 years (Germany: 3 years)

Positions per freelancer

18 (Germany: 19)

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Bachelor's degree or higher

96% (Germany: 83%)

Master's degree or higher

67% (Germany: 52%)

Doctorate

13% (Germany: 12%)

Certifications per freelancer

2 (Germany: 3)

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

97% (Germany: 96%)

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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Average rates of experts in Munich using IBM Db2

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

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Daily rate avg. 825 €
Germany avg. 801 €

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 800 €
Germany median 800 €

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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the technology

Core use cases

IBM Db2 is used for transactional systems that need reliable SQL processing, strong consistency, and predictable recovery. Teams use it for core business databases, reporting layers, and legacy workloads that still run critical operations. It often appears in finance, insurance, manufacturing, and public-sector systems.

Ecosystem

Db2 work usually spans database design, SQL tuning, access control, and backup planning. Strong specialists know Db2 utilities, monitoring tools, stored procedures, and how the platform fits with Java, COBOL, ETL jobs, and mainframe environments.

When to bring in help

  • Slow queries or lock contention need a deeper performance review
  • A migration to a newer Db2 release is due
  • An on-premise system must connect cleanly to cloud services
  • Recovery, replication, or high-availability setup needs validation
  • A local Munich team needs short-term support in English or German

What strong experts deliver

A strong Db2 professional reads execution plans, checks buffer and index usage, and keeps schema changes safe. They also document clear runbooks, work carefully with application teams, and avoid changes that help one workload while breaking another.

Common project work

In practice, Db2 specialists are asked to optimize queries, review table and index design, and support upgrades or migrations between environments. They may also clean up stored procedures, stabilize batch windows, and help with audit-friendly access patterns.

Munich collaboration

Munich companies often need Db2 support close to operations, but remote work is common for analysis and tuning. On-site access can help with sensitive systems, mainframe coordination, or workshop-style troubleshooting. Good specialists adapt to local processes and keep communication precise.

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Frequently asked questions

Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about IBM Db2.

IBM Db2 is used for business databases that must stay consistent, recover quickly, and handle heavy SQL traffic. It is common in core transaction systems, reporting layers, and long-lived applications that cannot easily move away from their database stack.

Db2 is the current product name, while DB2 is the older spelling many searchers still use. People may also mean Db2 LUW when they want the Linux, UNIX, and Windows edition, or Db2 for z/OS when they work with mainframe systems.

IBM Db2 is often chosen when a company already runs IBM systems, needs strong transactional behavior, or depends on established enterprise tooling. Oracle is often compared for large enterprise databases, while PostgreSQL is usually considered for open-source flexibility and broad ecosystem support.

A strong IBM Db2 specialist should also know SQL tuning, indexing, backup and recovery, and schema design. In many projects, knowledge of Java, COBOL, ETL tools, shell scripting, and monitoring workflows is just as important as the database itself.

IBM Db2 projects that involve routine querying or small schema changes can be handled by a generalist with solid database practice. Migrations, performance problems, replication, or mainframe integration usually need a specialist who has worked on similar systems before.

Yes, much of IBM Db2 work can be done remotely, especially analysis, query tuning, and design review. On-site time in Munich helps when teams need access to sensitive environments, close coordination with operations, or workshops with German-speaking stakeholders.

Look for a Db2 specialist who can explain past problems clearly, show how they reduced risk, and describe the tools they used to verify changes. Good signs are careful testing, clear rollback plans, and practical experience with your Db2 edition and surrounding stack.

A IBM Db2 freelancer will usually ask about the platform edition, current pain points, access to test systems, and who owns the application logic around the database. They also want to know whether the work is advisory, hands-on tuning, or part of a larger migration or recovery effort.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IBM Db2 in their recent projects is 103 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 825 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IBM Db2 in their recent projects, 96% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 67% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IBM Db2 in their recent projects have 30 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IBM Db2 in their recent projects are German (100%), English (97%), and French (34%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IBM Db2 in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Banking and Finance (75%), and Automotive (66%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used IBM Db2 in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (88%), and Quality Assurance (78%).

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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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