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Internet of Things Experts in Germany

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Thorsten Huber

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Agile Coach, Product Owner, Technical Consultant

Wehr
Thorsten Huber

Last position:

Product Owner, AI Manager at crazyALEX.de GmbH

Digitizing real-world places with 3D/LiDAR scans to make spatial data usable for AI applications and to derive concrete use cases and prototypes from it.

  • Digital capture of real-world places as a basis for faster planning and analysis
  • Browser-based access to 3D data for easier use and coordination
  • Turning spatial data into concrete use cases, prototypes, and AI training scenarios
  • Planning basis for urban development and other digital future applications

Keywords: LiDAR, 3D scan, AI, use cases, AI training, prototyping, Python, web development, data models, architecture

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Niko Schmuck

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Developing Architect / Solution Architect

Hamburg
Niko Schmuck

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Developing Architect, Technical Lead "gridlytics" at HH Energienetze

  • Building a data integration platform for high, medium, and low voltage assets for contextual analysis of time series with master data from the SCADA control system (IEC 60870 104), INIS, and SAP.
  • Responsibility for the architecture and implementation of the solution, as well as sparring partner for the Product Owner.
  • Use of Kotlin, Spring Boot, Maven, TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL, liquibase, Elements IoT, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Python, jupyter, and various API gateways.
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Christian Pestel

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Project Manager

Berlin
Christian Pestel

Last position:

Project Manager at Kreis Segeberg

  • WiNOWiG extensions (digitalization & organization)
  • Project management for the WiNOWiG project (regulatory offenses)
  • Process optimization and coordination
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Martin Hermann

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Senior IT Transformation Consultant | Solution Architect | Cloud Architect | CTO/CIO Advisor

Freilassing
Martin Hermann

Last position:

Lead Product Owner at Energy

  • Team leadership: Prioritization and coordination of four cross-functional teams.
  • Platform strategy: Development and implementation of strategies to optimize existing IT platforms.
  • Stakeholder management: Active management of expectations and communication with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Program and innovation management: Prioritization and coordination of cross-department projects as well as innovation initiatives.
  • Product Owner consulting: Advising Product Owners with a focus on product development and continuous product improvement.
  • Organizational development: Improving communication and decision-making structures across all organizational levels.
  • Change management: Implementing best-practice change management methods to ensure continuous optimization and innovation.
  • Quality assurance: Ensuring high quality standards in processes, services, and deliverables.
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Yusuf Congar

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Senior Software Engineer C# | C++ | Java | JS | Microservices | Vert.x | OSGI | IoT | Hardware | MQTT

Würselen
Yusuf Congar

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Senior Software Engineer at LeiKon GmbH

  • Development of scalable backend applications with C#/.NET and Java
  • Design and implementation of distributed microservice architectures
  • Development and integration of REST APIs for industrial applications
  • Development of modern web applications with React, Angular, and TypeScript
  • Implementation of MQTT-based communication solutions
  • Integration of industrial protocols such as OPC UA and Modbus TCP
  • Development of batch, process control, and HMI components
  • Containerization and deployment of applications with Docker
  • Conducting code reviews and supporting architecture decisions
  • Close collaboration with product owners, QA, and interdisciplinary teams
  • Analysis of business requirements and implementation of technical solutions
  • Further development of existing software architectures with a focus on maintainability and performance

Technologies: C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Java, C++, React, Angular, TypeScript, Vue.JS, MQTT, OPC UA, Modbus TCP, Docker, GitLab, MariaDB, MySQL, Linux

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Umut Gülac

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Freelancer

Frankfurt
Umut Gülac

Last position:

Data Architect at BA Technology

I am an experienced data engineer specializing in end‑to‑end data integration, cloud DWH architectures, and high‑quality, governed data products.

I delivered following projects and engagements as a freelancer.

  • Data Migration of CRM System for AL-FA Objekt Service Gmbh
  • Microsoft Software Resales Partnership

I am looking for freelance roles like: Freelance Data Engineer Cloud Data Warehouse Architect Data Modeling & Architecture Consultant MDM & Data Governance Specialist BI & Analytics Developer

Technical Focus Areas

  • Data Engineering & Integration: SQL Server/SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter/IDQ, Talend, Kafka, Azure Data Factory – Delta/CDC/ELT patterns, robust pipelines, monitoring/recovery, data lineage & impact analysis, medallion architecture Bronze/Silver/Gold layers
  • DWH & Cloud: Azure SQL / Data Lake / Synapse, AWS Redshift/S3, on‑prem SQL/Oracle – scalable data marts with a strong cost/benefit focus.
  • Data Modeling: Atomic (Inmon) and Dimensional (Kimball), Data Vault (Linstedt), Domain‑Driven Design, clear lineage & contracts.
  • MDM & Governance: Informatica MDM, IBM MDM, stewardship processes, data quality rules, survivorship/XREF, catalog/glossary, SIF/BES/REST publication.
  • Analytics/BI: Power BI, SSAS, Cognos – business‑ready, maintainable data products.
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Sabahattin Kunas

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Senior Java Developer | Lead Developer | Architect | Team Lead

Diedorf
Sabahattin Kunas

Last position:

Sole responsibility (concept, development, infrastructure, operations) at Own project busik.ch

  • Ride-sharing and bus platform, live and working. Backend Spring Boot 4.1 on Java 21, PostgreSQL with Flyway, Testcontainers integration tests. Running in my own AWS account (ECS Fargate, ALB, ECR, IAM least privilege) with CI/CD via GitHub Actions and OIDC federation without static credentials. Development throughout AI-assisted with Claude Code, including my own skills and project-specific memory. Spring Boot · Java 21 · PostgreSQL · Flyway · Docker · AWS ECS/ALB/ECR · CI/CD · GitHub Actions · Claude Code
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Gerhard Kolar

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Senior Project Manager and Construction Manager

Wissen
Gerhard Kolar

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Senior Project Manager and Construction Manager at HENSOLDT Optronics GmbH

  • Building the data center in Oberkochen (defense area)
  • Planning the fiber optic ring, simulation of Wi-Fi coverage
  • Cable routing plan for WAN and LAN cables for office and production (infrastructure)
  • Adaptation of the SAP system (R3) for the Oberkochen site (software)
  • IT transformation of the SAP system to SAP HANA
  • Planning network infrastructure and server technologies in the SAP environment
  • Pré-sales support and setting up change management
  • Independent coordination of utilities according to time, budget and quality
  • Mapping the project in MS Project and SERVICENow
  • Development and design of hardware and software
  • Demand management and portfolio management
  • Building a risk register and migration plan
  • Preparation of payment-supporting documents in coordination with the responsible finance and commercial functions
  • Budget: 5 Mio. - 34 FTE
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Rashi Jain

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Product designer

Berlin
Rashi Jain

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Design Consultant at Valutics Inc.

  • Designing UX for a B2B AI SaaS platform covering the full software development lifecycle, including an orchestration transparency panel showing users which AI model is active at each stage, reducing AI opacity and building user trust in multi-model workflows.
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Alexander Zhirov

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Senior Data Architect & Data Engineer

Berlin
Alexander Zhirov

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Senior Data Solutions Engineer at VMware Inc.

  • Architected and deployed private cloud data platform on VMware vSphere, integrating Greenplum MPP, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Apache Solr, and developed real-time ingestion pipelines with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
  • Led Oracle Exadata to Greenplum migration, rearchitected data models, optimized storage, implemented RabbitMQ with Debezium for CDC, and deployed VectorDB for Generative AI.
  • Designed and executed multi-cloud migration PoC across AWS, Azure, and GCP, defined KPIs for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency, executed bulk data transfers, validated analytics and streaming workloads, and delivered full-scale architecture recommendations.
  • Assessed legacy on-premises infrastructure and designed modern cloud-native data platforms using Greenplum and containerized microservices, advising on scalability, disaster recovery, and high-availability.
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Arash Keshavarzi

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Global Digital Product Manager, IoT Services

Frankfurt am Main
Arash Keshavarzi

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Global Digital Product Manager, IoT Services at Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH

  • Responsibility for the further development of digital service products with a focus on customer value, profitability, and scalable growth
  • Development and prioritization of the service product roadmap based on customer feedback, market analysis, financial evaluation, and technical feasibility
  • Identification of new digital service opportunities as well as derivation of product requirements, feature priorities, and value propositions
  • Alignment of product vision, roadmap, and user experience with product owners, center of competence, sales, service, and market organizations
  • Support of go-to-market activities, market validations, and internal training for the successful launch of digital service offerings
  • Use of data-based decision-making to assess customer needs, business model assumptions, and product progress
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Saqib Javed

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Senior Solution & Software Architect · Interim IT Lead · AI/Agentic AI, Cloud, .NET

Erlensee
Saqib Javed

Last position:

AI Developer / AI Engineer (Lead) at KOM4TEC GmbH

  • Conceptual design and implementation of modular AI assistants for sales and business processes in the Microsoft ecosystem (Agentic AI, Copilot extensions)
  • Frontend architecture and development with React + TypeScript for embedded chat and assistant surfaces (streaming UI, hooks, React Query, OpenAPI clients)
  • Enterprise-level agent development: reusable skill/agent library, MCP server, review and compliance gates
  • LLM integration into the user experience: Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, tool use, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, guardrails
  • Architecture and code review consulting as well as mentoring in the AI development team
  • Integration with Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, and Azure services
  • Technologies: React, TypeScript, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, MCP, RAG, Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, Azure
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Julian Hillebrand

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Senior IT Project Manager & Program Manager | 12+ years | AI, Cloud, Data, Rollout, Transformation

Solingen
Julian Hillebrand

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IT Project Manager AI product for automating knowledge-intensive processes at Leading provider of large-scale catering & food services

Project: Concept and implementation of an AI product for four business use cases

Project management of an AI project at a leading provider of large-scale catering and food services, where a production-ready AI product for four use cases was implemented together with an external development partner: automated briefings from CRM and document data, voice-based capture and structuring of reports, detection and merging of duplicates in master data, and data-based market analysis. A central focus was a privacy-compliant architecture that passed the internal IT security review and enabled productive use.

  • Translating business requirements into clearly defined AI use cases with a clear product scope and clear value proposition
  • Selecting and evaluating models and architecture options for text extraction, speech-to-text and context enrichment from business systems, including LLM integration, function calling and retrieval
  • Designing and enforcing an architecture with European hosting, data minimization and masking of personal data as a prerequisite for approval
  • Managing the interfaces between business, IT, IT security and the external development partner under restrictive data access conditions
  • Coordinating with CIO and executive management on data access, risk assessment and approval decisions
  • Preparing the transition into productive use
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Markus Gritsch

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Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer

Oberschneiding
Markus Gritsch

Last position:

Open-Source Software Engineer & Maintainer at Stealth Startup

Independent, part-time open-source engineering focused on build-time tooling for Next.js, React, MDX, and JavaScript/TypeScript compiler pipelines.

  • Built next-slug-splitter to optimize content-driven Next.js applications. It analyzes MDX content at build time, resolves component usage, and generates route-specific handlers so pages avoid sharing the full catch-all component bundle.

  • Created supporting plugins and utilities for scoped MDX transformations, nested component dependency resolution, compile-time refinement, safe ESTree evaluation, and object-graph diffing.

  • Own architecture, API design, implementation, automated testing, npm publishing, documentation, demos, and performance benchmarking.

Building blocks:

  • remark-scoped-mdx: Context-aware AST transformations with nested scope isolation, typed component registries, and prop inference.

  • recma-component-resolver: Dependency-graph analysis and selective component forwarding across nested MDX includes.

  • recma-static-refiner: Build-time prop extraction, schema validation, derivation, and pruning.

  • estree-util-to-static-value and object-graph-delta: Safe static evaluation and deterministic, cycle-safe structural diffing.

Tech Stack:

  • Frameworks: TypeScript · Next.js · React · MDX

  • Compiler tooling: Unified · Remark · Recma · MDAST · ESTree · ts-morph · esbuild

  • Competencies: Static analysis · AST traversal and transformation · dependency graphs · code generation · schema validation · route and bundle splitting

  • Tooling: Vitest · tsup · npm · performance benchmarking

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Statistics of experts using Internet of Things

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

20 years

Position duration

3.1 years

Positions per freelancer

12

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automotive

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development

Bachelor's degree or higher

92%

Master's degree or higher

61%

Doctorate

11%

Certifications per freelancer

3

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

98%

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Germany 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 Germany using Internet of Things

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

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Daily rate avg. 856 €

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 €

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

What IoT covers

Internet of Things, or IoT, links physical devices to software that can collect data, send commands, and trigger actions. It shows up in connected products, factory equipment, building systems, logistics assets, and remote monitoring setups. Strong specialists help turn device data into useful operations.

Common stacks

IoT work often combines device firmware, cloud services, messaging, and dashboards. Search terms like MQTT, AWS IoT, Azure IoT, and edge computing often appear in the same brief.

  • Device provisioning and onboarding
  • Sensor data ingestion and processing
  • Cloud-to-device and device-to-cloud messaging
  • Dashboard, alert, and reporting flows
  • Integration with ERP, MES, or maintenance systems

Where companies need help

Companies bring in freelance expertise when devices must connect cleanly to existing systems or when a pilot needs to move into production. That includes protocol choices, security setup, data models, and reliable monitoring. In Germany, this is common in manufacturing, energy, logistics, and smart building projects.

What strong specialists deliver

A strong IoT specialist thinks about the full chain, not just the device. They understand connectivity limits, secure identities, firmware updates, latency, and how data moves through the stack. They also write clear documentation so operations teams can run the system without guesswork.

Typical project work

  • Connected product prototypes
  • Industrial monitoring and maintenance flows
  • Fleet and asset tracking
  • Smart building controls
  • Data platform and API integration

How to evaluate fit

Look for people who have shipped real IoT systems, not only demos. Ask how they handle device security, offline behavior, message loss, and versioning across fleets. Good specialists can explain trade-offs between edge processing, cloud processing, and mixed setups in plain language.

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Frequently asked questions

Key details about Internet of Things, drawn from the questions we get asked most.

Internet of Things is used to connect physical assets to software so teams can monitor them, control them, and act on live data. Common uses include equipment monitoring, smart buildings, connected products, fleet tracking, and remote maintenance. The value is not the device alone, but the workflow around it.

IoT is the broader term for connected devices in homes, cities, consumer products, and business systems. IIoT means industrial IoT and usually refers to factories, plants, and heavy equipment. Companies often choose specialists who understand both, because industrial projects need stricter reliability and security.

A strong Internet of Things specialist usually knows device communication, cloud integration, messaging protocols, and basic security design. Useful adjacent skills include MQTT, APIs, edge computing, data pipelines, and dashboard work. If your project touches hardware, firmware knowledge is a plus.

A small proof of concept can start with a focused IoT specialist who has shipped similar integrations. Production systems need broader experience because device rollout, security, monitoring, and failure handling matter more. If the system must run across many sites or devices, choose someone who has worked on operational systems before.

Many Internet of Things tasks can be done remotely, especially architecture, cloud work, dashboards, and backend integration. On-site time helps when there is hardware setup, sensor calibration, plant access, or testing with local equipment. In Germany, hybrid collaboration is common for projects that mix office work and industrial sites.

Look for clear examples of systems they have delivered with IoT components, not just tools they know. Good signs are solid documentation, security awareness, clean integration choices, and practical thinking about outages and updates. Ask how they handled device identity, data loss, and long-term maintenance.

IoT is the overall field, while MQTT is a protocol and AWS IoT or Azure IoT are cloud service ecosystems. A good specialist knows when to use each layer and when a simpler setup is enough. Many projects use MQTT at the device level and a cloud service for device management and data processing.

Yes, Internet of Things specialists often bridge legacy equipment and new connected devices. They can add gateways, translate protocols, and expose older systems through APIs or event streams. This is especially useful when a company wants to modernize without replacing everything at once.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects is 107 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 856 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects, 92% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 61% hold at least a Master's degree, and 11% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.1 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects are German (98%), English (98%), and French (22%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects are Information Technology (89%), Manufacturing (63%), and Automotive (46%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Internet of Things in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Product Development (85%), and Project Management (67%).

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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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